Almarai celebrates its successes in localizing jobs and attracting Saudi youth

On Monday, May 29, 2023, corresponding to Dhu al-Qi`dah 09, 1444 AH, Almarai Company held the "Success Partners 2023" forum under the slogan "Nationalization is a Strategic Goal" to celebrate the success of its programs in nationalizing jobs and attracting Saudi youth, during which it honored the public and private sectors that shared their successes, as well The non-profit sector, in the presence of the CEO of Almarai Company, Abdullah bin Nasser Al-Badr, leaders and officials of all participating entities, in addition to the executive management, and directors of the various sectors and departments of Almarai Company.

“Today, through this forum, we celebrate success partners in achieving one of the most important priorities of Almarai’s comprehensive strategic plans, which is Emiratisation, especially since the company is one of the largest work environments in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the total number of Saudi employees is more than 9,000 Saudi employees, including more than 800 Saudi female employees, and more than 500 employees with special needs.” Almarai CEO Abdullah Al-Badr said.

Al-Badr explained that the classification of Almarai Company in the Nitaqat Program for Saudization of jobs in the private sector in the Kingdom is the platinum level and the high green level.

“The company's success in this context came through providing an integrated system of initiatives and training and qualification programs for national human cadres, through which the company provided nearly half a million training hours to its employees during the year 2022 AD, which raised the company's employee retention rate to 90% during the year. 2022 AD” Al-Badr added.

While the Chief Human Resources Officer at Almarai, Fahd bin Muhammad Al-Drees, reviewed the success of Almarai’s Emiratisation programs, indicating that Almarai is working in coordination with all partners to build and develop an integrated system of qualitative training and rehabilitation initiatives and programs to supply the various sectors and management of the company with qualified national cadres under the slogan of Emiratisation. strategic goal.

After that, a dialogue session was held on the sidelines of the forum to present the localization experiences and discuss ways to develop them in the future. The forum concluded by honoring the entities that contributed to the success of Almarai Emiratization programs.

It is worth noting that Almarai is one of the most significant work environments in the Middle East, as it includes more than 40,000 employees working in its various sectors of career development for professionals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the year 2022.