What We Do

Helping businesses across the GCC structure, mobilise and build their teams, with specialist Saudi market advisory.

We work with businesses across the GCC on HR, talent and hiring challenges that can slow growth or delivery, alongside specialist market advisory for businesses entering or operating in Saudi Arabia. We advise on what needs to change, then stay involved where execution is needed.

Our work spans three areas: Talent & Mobilisation Advisory, Saudi Market Advisory and Search & Hiring. Every engagement is led directly by one of the founders.

Talent & Mobilisation Advisory

We help businesses make better decisions about how they structure, develop, hire and mobilise their teams in complex operating environments across the GCC. From succession planning and nationalisation to bid staffing, hiring performance and fractional leadership, we focus on the people issues that directly affect delivery, growth and commercial performance.

Succession and critical role planning
We work with your leadership and HR teams to identify critical roles, assess internal succession options and build a clear succession plan around them. Where there is no ready internal successor, we can map the external market and identify the talent that may need to be brought into the business.
Nationalisation strategy and development
Over the last decade, we have designed and implemented multiple nationalisation strategies across the region. We work with your team to build a nationalisation strategy that achieves the required targets while also building genuine capability in the business, including identifying priority roles, developing national talent and making use of relevant government incentive programmes to help make the strategy commercially viable.
Hiring and mobilisation diagnostics
We carry out a data-led review of your end-to-end hiring and mobilisation process, from requisition approval to day one, working with your HR, Talent and operational teams to identify where time and revenue are being lost and what needs to change. The output is a clear set of prioritised, practical recommendations, and we can work alongside your team to implement them.
Bid and pre-award staffing strategy
We work with your bid and delivery teams to develop the staffing strategy behind a proposal, including key role requirements, candidate availability, nominations and realistic mobilisation assumptions, helping strengthen the bid and increase the chances of winning.
HR and Talent team structure
Roles, reporting lines and accountabilities can become blurred as a business grows or changes. We review the existing HR and Talent set-up, identify gaps or duplication, and recommend a structure that fits the way the business actually operates, including where external support makes more sense than adding permanent headcount.
Fractional HR and Talent leadership
Senior HR or Talent leadership without the need for a permanent appointment. This can support a leadership gap, a period of growth or change, market entry, or a defined piece of work that needs experienced ownership, with the scope shaped around what the business actually needs.

For businesses entering or already operating in Saudi Arabia, we provide practical advice on what is required, what will work in practice and where the risks sit. From market feasibility and RHQ requirements to local partner structures, labour and immigration changes, Saudisation rules and in-country representation, the focus is on understanding what applies to your business and what action to take.
Saudi market entry feasibility and set-up
Assess whether establishing a Saudi entity is necessary and commercially justified, and what the most appropriate route to market should be. We advise on structure, licensing, regulatory requirements and the practical set-up process, help navigate the relevant ministries and government bodies, and coordinate local partners and in-country support where needed through to being ready to operate.
RHQ eligibility and set-up; local partner advice and introductions
We help you assess whether an RHQ is required, the benefits it may bring, the commitments involved and how it fits with your wider Saudi structure. We also advise on local partner requirements, whether you need one to establish in the Kingdom, or, if you are already operating there, whether the existing arrangement is still necessary or could be reduced or restructured. Where a partner is required, we support identification, due diligence and selection, and make introductions through our network.
Labour law, immigration and visa developments
We keep you up to date with changes to Saudi labour law, immigration and visa requirements, and help you understand what they mean in practice for your people, hiring and mobilisation plans. Where specialist legal or immigration advice is needed, we work with the right local partners and help coordinate the response.
Saudisation job classifications and quota requirements
We track changes to Saudisation classifications, quota requirements and Nitaqat rules, and help you understand how they affect your current structure and future hiring plans. This includes identifying where requirements have changed, which roles are affected and what action may be needed to stay compliant without undermining the way the business needs to operate.
Talent mapping and market availability
We give you a clear view of the talent market before you commit to a hiring plan, mapping the availability of the people and skills you need, where that talent sits and how realistic your requirements are. Where the market is tight, we identify the gaps early and advise on how the hiring strategy, sequencing or role requirements may need to change.
In-country advisory and representation
We provide an experienced commercial presence on the ground in Saudi Arabia, supporting stakeholder management, supplier registration, ministry and regulatory liaison, market intelligence and representation at senior meetings and industry events. The scope can be tailored on a retained basis, giving you ongoing in-country support without the cost of a permanent in-Kingdom operation.

Saudi Market Advisory

When the requirement moves from advice to delivery, we provide the search and hiring support to get the right people in place. From executive and specialist search to project and function hiring, national talent search and partner-led employment solutions, the emphasis is on experienced delivery, direct market access and a hiring model that fits the requirement.
Executive, senior and specialist search
We handle leadership appointments, senior project and functional roles, and hard-to-find specialist positions, particularly across engineering and project delivery. Whether the brief is a Country Head, Project Director or specialist technical hire, we work on a retained or contingent basis depending on the role and your needs. The partner you brief runs the search.
Project, team and function hiring
We work as a dedicated hiring partner for a defined period, focused on building the project team, function or capability your business needs. That can mean a project kick-off team, a group of specialist hires, a new functional team, or large-scale hiring across multiple disciplines and levels. Rather than paying individual placement fees as a percentage of salary, you get a fixed, predictable cost for the hiring programme. We work as an extension of your business, giving you dedicated hiring capacity without having to build it permanently in-house.
National talent search
We source Saudi and Bahraini national talent across all levels and functions, from graduate and specialist roles through to senior leadership. The focus is not simply on meeting nationalisation targets, but on finding people who build genuine capability and can succeed in the role. For critical or hard-to-find requirements, we use direct search and networks built over years in both markets.
EOR and local employment solutions
Where you need to employ people in Saudi Arabia or Bahrain without setting up a local entity, we work with trusted EOR and local employment partners to put the right solution in place. This gives you a practical route to hire and onboard people locally, while employment, payroll and compliance sit with the specialist provider.

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Search & Hiring

Our track record

More than 30 years of combined experience living and working in the region.

20,000+
people hired and mobilised across the GCC
200+
proposals supported, contributing to multi-billion-dollar project wins
34%
reduction in average mobilisation time, with an estimated AUD 5.4m annual billable revenue impact
7%
year-on-year Saudisation increase across a 2,000-person Saudi operation

How we work

Our model is built around long-term relationships with the businesses we support. We work closely with leadership, HR and delivery teams, staying involved as priorities change and combining advisory and search where it makes sense.

Engagements can be structured around a specific piece of work or as a retained relationship. The retained model gives clients continuity, direct access to us and a partner who already understands their business, rather than starting again every time a new requirement comes up.

Retained advisory

Ongoing access to HR, talent and Saudi market advice as priorities evolve.

Project-based advisory

Defined pieces of work with a clear scope, outcome and timeframe.

Contingent search

Individual search assignments where a retained relationship is not required, with fees payable on successful placement.

Retained search

Ongoing search support across multiple, recurring or business-critical requirements.

Dedicated hiring programmes

Project, team or function hiring delivered over a defined period at a fixed, predictable cost.

We work with businesses across all sectors, with our deepest experience in engineering, project delivery and asset-intensive industries across the GCC.