Recruitment and mobilisation from any country to any country. HR built properly around the people you hire. And in Saudi Arabia, a company set up, kept compliant and staffed. One team, one contract.
Why Elite HR
Most companies come to us with one of two things: they need people, or they need to be in Saudi Arabia. Often both, and usually at the same time.
Elite HR was built to answer both from a single point of contact. On the talent side we run searches from any country into any country, and most often into Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the rest of the Gulf. We then handle the mobilisation that follows: the paperwork, permits and travel that turn an accepted offer into someone actually at work. Around both, we advise on the HR itself: policies, pay structures, and the Saudisation and Emiratisation targets your hiring has to meet.
On the Saudi side we establish your entity, keep its licences and registrations current, and staff it. Where you need people in the Kingdom before your own entity can employ them, they are employed through our group there. None of it requires you to have a presence in Saudi Arabia first.
You deal with one team and one contract, from the first conversation to the last renewal.
What we do
Getting the right people in place, building the HR they work within, and setting up and running your company in Saudi Arabia.
01
Permanent and contract hiring from any country into any country, with deep expertise in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. We work from your specification, screen against the technical and regulatory requirements of the role, and advise on what the salary needs to be to actually land the person.
Recruitment in detail02
Getting people from where they are to where the work is. Entry permits and work authorisation, medicals and attestations, flights and arrival logistics, onboarding on the other side — coordinated as one sequence rather than handed between parties.
Mobilisation in detail03
An HR function diagnosed, designed and documented. We start with an HR assessment scored across nine areas, then build what is missing: organisation structure, job descriptions, grading and salary structures, incentive plans, policies and procedures, and performance frameworks, built for UAE and Saudi labour law.
HR consultancy in detail04
Company formation in Saudi Arabia, from decision to operating company in about three months: structure and documents, registration, then activation on the government portals.
Setup in detail05
Keeping your entity in good standing: renewals, registrations, changes to the company, and a monthly report on what is due next.
Maintenance in detail06
Manpower supply and Employer of Record inside the Kingdom. Your people are employed through our group in Saudi Arabia, which carries the contract, payroll and regulatory obligations while your team directs the work.
Workforce in detailThe group
MENA Business Investment Group was founded in Barcelona to connect European expertise with the Saudi and wider MENA market, and now has a presence in Riyadh, Jeddah, Beirut, Barcelona and the UAE. It works across corporate services, administration and PRO, advisory, finance, recruitment and staffing.
Elite HR runs its own mandates and holds its own client relationships. What the group gives us is depth to call on, so that accounting, payroll or advisory scope can sit under the same contract when a client needs it. You deal with one team either way.
Availability
We would rather you know this before the first call than after it. Workforce services are a Saudi offering — we do not supply or employ workforce in the UAE.
| Service | United Arab Emirates | Saudi Arabia | Rest of world |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recruitment | Available | Available | Available |
| Global mobilisation | Available | Available | Available |
| HR consultancy | Not offered | Available | Gulf region on request |
| Business setup | Not offered | Available | Not offered |
| Company maintenance | Not offered | Available | Not offered |
| Workforce services | Not offered | Available | Not offered |
Compliance
Hiring in the Gulf is rarely blocked by finding the person. It is blocked by everything the state requires afterwards. These are the obligations we take on.
Sectors
We lead in three areas, where the Gulf is building fastest. Our search methodology does not change by industry, so we hire across others too.
Roles, volumes, destinations, timeline. We will come back with the route that fits and what it involves.
Recruitment and mobilisation get the right people to the right place, wherever they are going. HR consultancy builds the structures they work within. Business setup, company maintenance and workforce services establish and run your company in Saudi Arabia. Every engagement is contracted and managed by Elite HR, under one relationship.
Service 01
Permanent and contract hiring, from executive search to volume hiring of skilled and semi-skilled workers, sourced against your specification and screened before you ever see a CV.
We hire into the Kingdom, the Emirates and the rest of the Gulf, and we run cross-border searches anywhere: a Filipino technician into Abu Dhabi, a Spanish project director into Riyadh, a British finance lead into Dubai. The candidate's origin and the destination are both variables. What stays fixed is that we screen against the technical requirements of the role and the immigration reality of the destination before presenting anyone.
We start from the role, not the CV pile. That means a scoping conversation about what the person actually has to do, what the site or office is like, and what the package can stretch to. We then source from our own network and open market, screen technically, and present a shortlist with honest notes on each person — including the reservations.
Where the hire crosses a border, we flag the immigration path at shortlist stage rather than at offer stage, so a preferred candidate does not turn out to be unplaceable.
We never charge candidates a fee.
Service 02
Getting people from where they are to where the work is, as one coordinated sequence.
An accepted offer is not a filled role. Between signature and first day sits authorisation, attestation, medicals, tickets and arrival — usually split across three parties who each assume someone else is tracking it. We take the whole span, whether the person is someone we placed or someone already on your payroll being moved.
We map the route before anyone books anything: what the destination requires, what the origin country will and will not attest, and where the realistic delays sit. From there it runs as a schedule with named owners and dates, and you get a status view rather than a series of chased emails.
For group moves, we sequence arrivals against site readiness so people are not landing into accommodation or clearances that are not there yet.
How long a move takes depends on the origin and destination countries. We give you a route-specific estimate before anything is booked.
Service 03
An HR function built properly: diagnosed first, then designed, documented and signed off piece by piece.
Most HR problems in the Gulf are not about people. They are about structures that were never written down: no grading, pay set case by case, policies copied from another country, and a nationalisation requirement nobody has planned against. We diagnose your HR function first, then build what it is missing, in the order each piece depends on the last.
Every engagement starts with an HR assessment, typically six to nine weeks: a document review, structured interviews and an analysis of your workforce data. It ends in a scored report and an action plan.
From there you choose what to build: the high-priority items, or the full programme with implementation support. Each deliverable is priced and signed off on its own, so you can buy in stages. Where the work leads into hiring, our recruitment team picks it up.
Service 04
From decision to operating company in about three months.
Saudi Arabia rewards early entrants and punishes badly structured ones. The activity you licence, the ownership you declare and the entity type you choose decide what you can do later: bid for government work, sponsor visas, repatriate profit. We advise on the structure first, then take you through three phases, running steps in parallel wherever the rules allow.
Structure and activity advice. Documents collected, translated and attested.
MISA investor registration. Commercial registration. Chamber of Commerce.
Government portals and ZATCA. Municipality and Civil Defence. General manager's iqama and bank account.
Legal advice on the structure and the licensed activity is included, before anything is filed. Most delays come from attestation in the home country rather than from the Saudi side, and you are told at the outset where yours are likely to be.
Service 05
Keeping a Saudi entity in good standing after the excitement of setting it up has passed.
Saudi registrations expire on their own schedule and most of them block something else when they lapse — an expired CR stops you signing, a lapsed licence stops you sponsoring. The failures are almost never strategic. They are a renewal nobody was watching. We watch them.
With a 12-month company maintenance plan, business setup is included at no additional cost. One monthly fee covers both.
We take an inventory of what you hold, when each item expires and what it gates. That becomes a calendar you can see. We file renewals ahead of expiry and handle amendments as they arise, escalating to you only where a decision or a signature is genuinely needed.
Where the group's accounting, PRO or advisory teams are the right people for a piece of scope, we bring them in under our contract rather than sending you elsewhere.
Service 06
Manpower supply and Employer of Record inside the Kingdom, where our group holds the employment relationship and you direct the work.
Two routes to the same outcome. Manpower supply puts our workforce on your sites for a defined scope or duration. Employer of Record makes our group the legal employer of your own hires in Saudi Arabia, which lets you staff the Kingdom before your entity exists or while it is still being licensed.
We scope trades, headcount and duration with you, mobilise from our pool or recruit against your specification, and take on contracts, visas, onboarding, payroll and GOSI. Day-to-day supervision sits with your site or office team. The employment relationship and the regulatory exposure sit with our group.
Where headcount affects your Nitaqat band, we factor that in from the start rather than presenting it as a problem later.
Compare
The clearest way to tell our services apart is to ask who ends up employing the person, and where.
| Criterion | Recruitment | Mobilisation | Workforce services |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who employs the person | You | You | Our group in Saudi Arabia |
| Best for | Permanent and contract hires | Moving people across borders | Flexible or project workforce |
| Typical duration | One-off placement | Per move | Short to long term |
| Compliance carried by | You | Shared | Our group |
| Where | Worldwide, with deep expertise in KSA and the GCC | Worldwide | Saudi Arabia only |
HR consultancy, business setup and company maintenance sit outside this comparison. They concern how you run your people or your entity, not who employs them.
Describe the roles, the volume, the destination and the timeline. We will tell you which service fits and what it involves.
The more specific you are about roles, volumes, destination and timeline, the more useful our first reply will be. We answer with a route and what it involves, not a brochure.
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