Government Relations Manager

Job description / Role

- Dealing with all government authorities in the Kingdom.
- Looking after the company’s licenses.
- Dealing with Ministry of Labour, including employment issues
- Monitor the Saudization percentage of the company.
- Prepare the employment contract for the new joiners.
- Prepare support letters for TQ’s staff.
- Dealing with the immigration office.
- Checking the GOSI.
- Dealing for the visas for the staff, Work visas and visit visas.
- Looking after a part of the mobilization (visa section).
- Checking the validity of staff’s Iqamas.
- Dealing with the local transfer cases.
- Saudi Labour Law expert supporting internal Legal department
- Dealing with Chamber of Commerce, Bank and other legal agreement’s
- Excellent communication skills dealing with employees at all levels of the company
- Highly accurate with specific focus on the detail
- Provide clear guidelines, processes and procedures.
- Ensure all payments to government departments are made in an efficient and timely manner
- Customer focused to deliver all GR services to exceed expectations
- Manage the GR team (6 staff) over the Kingdom.

Requirements

- Degree Educated
- Fluent in Arabic and English
- 5 years related business experience handling Government relations.
- Must have excellent contacts with the Government entities and Law Enforcement Authorities in Saudi Arabia
- Experience in working international business

About the Company

Pearson is an international media and education company with businesses in Education, Business Information and Consumer Publishing. We lead our markets in quality, innovation and in profitability. We draw on common assets, capital, processes and culture. With 40,000 employees based in more than 60 countries, we are a large family of businesses that are alike in sharing the same aim: a focus on making the reading and learning experience as enjoyable and as beneficial as it can possibly be.