Saudi Arabia is executing
on Vision 2030.
Saudi Arabia is executing on Vision 2030 at a pace few markets have attempted, and in that environment, leadership has become the top commodity in every field.
Henharen Reid Saudi Arabia exists to meet that challenge directly, guiding the journey through Executive Recruitment, HR Advisory and Talent Solutions. We bring decades of experience appointing and advising leadership across the Gulf, and now operate through our own entities in both Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Henharen Reid is highly selective in the work we take on, ensuring every partnership delivers maximum value from the first conversation to the delivery of the mandate. That discipline is what allows us to give clients a realistic view of what the market will support, rather than a quick fix.
Our knowledge of the regulatory environment, board structures, and senior executive requirements makes us the right partner to drive the ambitions and growth of our markets.
We look forward to sharing with our clients the success that comes from having the right team in place.
Welcome to Henharen Reid.
Financial services, family groups,
government and the Kingdom’s largest companies.
Financial services
SAMA-licensed banks, local and foreign, and CMA-licensed institutions and listed companies. Each faces the same sequence: a licence, a board the regulator will accept, and a leadership team that can carry it into operation, with Saudisation from the first hire.
We are engaged for board, chief executive and control-function appointments, regulatory reward assessed against SAMA and CMA requirements, and Saudisation planning.
Family groups
The Kingdom’s large family groups are moving from founder-led to board-governed, appointing professional chief executives, finance leaders and independent directors for the first time. These mandates turn on discretion and on understanding how the family and the business relate.
We are engaged for first professional chief executive and chief financial officer appointments, board builds and succession audits.
Government and semi-government
Ministries, regulators, the bodies delivering the national programmes and the giga-project entities appoint with a degree of confidentiality and scrutiny that private-sector searches rarely carry. Access to senior Saudi talent, and credibility with it, decides these mandates.
We are engaged for appointments into ministries, regulators, sovereign investors, national programmes and giga-project entities.
The Kingdom’s largest companies
The top fifty Saudi companies, including the PIF portfolio, are building leadership benches at a pace that places real demand on their HR and talent teams: C-suite succession, reward that holds against the market, and competency frameworks that keep pace with growth. We work alongside those teams to carry it.
We are engaged for C-suite and functional-head search, reward benchmarking subscriptions and competency frameworks.
Boards and independent directors
Independent directors for listed boards, chief executive and chief financial officer succession planned with the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, and remuneration governance that stands up to the CMA.
Other work in the Kingdom
Saudisation planning a regulator will accept as evidence, reward benchmarking cut for this market, and succession and capability work handed to the client’s HR function to run.
Work already
delivered here.
Appointed chief executives and leadership teams into Saudi-licensed banks, each through SAMA approval.
Placed financial services leadership into a giga-project and a national-programme body while those structures were being designed.
Led senior mandates across Saudi investment management, specialist finance and the privatisation programme.
Advised on Saudisation and reward for Saudi-licensed banks, with the plans handed to the client’s HR function to run.
Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia.
Layth Al-Shaiban, Partner & Executive Chairman
Henharen Reid Saudi Arabia
l.alshaiban@henharenreid.com
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Kingdom mandates are chaired and led from Riyadh through a Saudi-licensed entity, with a dedicated research bench behind every search. Every mandate runs to the firm’s service levels: longlist within seven working days, shortlist within fourteen, and the 180-day landing programme after appointment.