Assistant Manager, Workforce Procurement

noon, the region's leading consumer commerce platform. On December 12th, 2017, noon launched its consumer platform in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, expanding to Egypt in February 2019. The noon ecosystem of services now includes marketplaces for food delivery, quick-commerce, fintech, and fashion. noon is a work in progress; we’re six years in, but only 5% done.

noon’s mission:
Every door, every day.

Team noon has some of the fastest, smartest, and hardest-working people we've encountered. With a young, aggressive, and talented team, we're driving major missions forward. The Workforce Procurement Assistant Manager will lead large-scale blue-collar hiring, mobilization, and deployment operations across warehouses, logistics, delivery, and field operations. This role is execution-focused and owns end-to-end workforce deployment, from bulk recruitment through on-ground deployment and readiness.

You will work closely with manpower agencies, operations teams, and internal stakeholders to ensure timely availability of skilled manpower at scale.

• Bulk Hiring & Recruitment: Lead high-volume hiring of blue-collar manpower including warehouse associates, pickers, loaders, delivery staff, helpers, FM staff, security personnel, and drivers.
• Mass Recruitment Drives: Plan and execute large-scale local and overseas recruitment campaigns to meet aggressive manpower demands.
• Vendor & Agency Management: Coordinate and manage manpower agencies and recruitment partners to ensure quality, speed, and compliance.
• Mobilization & Documentation: Oversee end-to-end candidate documentation including medicals, PCC, visa processing, and immigration clearances.
• Deployment Planning: Manage candidate mobilization, travel coordination, and deployment schedules across locations.
• Workforce Readiness & Tracking: Track deployment timelines, manpower readiness, buffers, replacements, and backouts to ensure operational continuity.
• MIS & Reporting: Maintain manpower trackers, dashboards, and MIS reports to provide real-time visibility on hiring and deployment status.
• Compliance & Governance: Ensure adherence to labor laws, contracts, and regulatory requirements across all manpower operations.
• Operational Escalations: Handle on-ground workforce-related escalations and resolve deployment challenges in coordination with operations teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Operations, or a related field.
• 4–8 years of experience in blue-collar bulk hiring, workforce deployment, or manpower operations.
• Strong exposure to overseas recruitment and mass deployment programs.
• Proven experience managing manpower agencies and vendor networks.
• Hands‑on knowledge of visa processing, immigration procedures, and labor compliance.
• Ability to manage large-scale hiring volumes (500+ / 1000+ candidates).
• Strong execution, coordination, and operational discipline.

• We’re looking for people with high standards, who understand that hard work matters.
• You need to be relentlessly resourceful and operate with a deep bias for action.
• We need people with the courage to be fiercely original.
• noon is not for everyone; readiness to adapt, pivot, and learn is essential.