Rakan Abuhabrah

A goal-oriented leader with more than 15 years of experience in managing government services and human resources. Throughout my career I maintained the highest levels of governmental services whilst communicating with top governmental officials and ministry representatives. I currently lead the governmental relations department with more than 50 employees under my supervision to maintain employee’s legal compliance and governmental services, among other tasks.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Head of Government Relations

SAED International for Istigdam Services – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Main Responsibilities and Achievements

2021- Present

• Maintained 95% plus WPS compliance for more than 8000 workers.
• Ensured 100% compliance for iqamas and Labor card renewals
• Initiated and lead on multiple automation projects – mainly using rpa – to enhance streamline effcincies of governmetal operations processes.
• Managed governmental inspections from different authorities.
• Dealt with senior governmental officials, ministry representatives and other leaders across multiple administrative functions

Head of Administration and Government Relations 2019-2021

AM Steel Co. – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (King Abdullah port)

Main Responsibilities and Achievements

• Lead on all transactions related to Ministry of Human resources and Labor office including but not limited to Saudization and residency of all expats.
• Provided training for all employees to optimize utilization and improve efficiencies
• handled all port clearance logistics with customs and border guards’ authorities across King Abdullah port, Dammam port and Yanbu port.

Head of Government Relations 2017-2019

Rafik Kreidieh Contracting Co. – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Main Responsibilities and Achievements :

• Creating and defining the objectives of the government relations department.
• Defining roles and distributing tasks among government relations personnel across the company.
• Constantly developing and updating KPIs to monitor team’s performance.
• Developed processes and procedure to streamline efficiencies and improve workflow

Head of Public and Government Relations 2011-2017

Arabtec Construction – Saudi Arabia

Main Responsibilities and Achievements :

• Initiated and structured the Governmental relations department at the HQ.
• Deployed a governmental relations unit to Aramco HQ in Dahran whilst getting all approvals.
• Kept a close communication with embassies, Immigration office and labor office among other governmental entities and ministries.
• Lead on all tasks related to the renewal of residency permit, final exits, exit re-entry visas, transferring sponsorships and transferring information.
• Handled governmental services for more than 13,000 employees across Saudi Arabia.

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