Saudisation Drive Expands to More Sectors
The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD) has announced that it is expanding the Saudisation drive to new professions and activities. These include project management; procurement and sales; outlets providing services for shipping activities and freight brokerage; and outlets for decor and women’s tailoring.
Saudisation of project management professions include project manager, and project management specialist. Saudisation of this sector will be implemented, in cooperation with the Ministry of Municipal, Rural Affairs and Housing, in two phases. The first phase targets 35 percent and the second phase 40 percent of the total number of workers in project management professions in all the firms where there are three or more workers, and the minimum wage has been set at SR6000.
The procurement professions were already localised by 50 percent for establishments that employ three or more workers in procurement jobs, and sales professions were localised by 15 percent for establishments that employ five or more workers in sales jobs. Procurement professions that come under Saudisation include purchasing manager; purchasing representative; food manager; private trademark supply specialist, and tendering specialist.
The sales professions that come under Saudisation include sales manager, internal sales and customer services manager, patent specialist, marketing sales expert, printer and copying equipment salesman, computer salesperson, retail sales manager, wholesale sales manager, commercial specialist, and sales specialist.
The ministry, in cooperation with the Ministry of Transport and Logistics, and the General Transport Authority implemented Saudisation in 14 activities that cover outlets providing services for freight activities and freight brokers. It had also implemented total Saturation in administrative jobs of all outlets for women’s decoration and sewing services. The regulation to appoint one Saudi female worker in technical professions in the outlets where there are 10 female workers or more in technical professions also came into force.
