Profile
Profile
Basra ⇄ Dubai
How it started
Ahmed Saeed began in October 2013 as an HR administrator at STX Heavy Industries, on EPCC projects at the Zubair oil field. The work was as practical as it was administrative: staffing crews, grievances, disciplinary process, and compliance with Iraqi labour law — the constraint that determines how a workforce can be built and run at all.
Then the scope widened. At Tatwir Al-Rumaila he ran administration, wrote the HR policy and handled logistics for projects servicing Zubair. At Sae-A STX Entech he moved from coordinating contracts across Zubair and West Qurna — budgets, procurement, payroll, tax compliance — to running four teams on Rumaila: HR, IT, procurement and accounting.
That is the point where “administration” stops being clerical work. When four functions depend on the same decision, administration becomes the operating system of the business.
Since August 2024 the direction has shifted. Ahmed leads business development at Raya Law Firm, an Ussus Group company, with regional expansion running into Jordan, Egypt and the UAE. He is reading law part-time at Al-Kunooze — the formal grounding for a side of the work he had already been applying for over a decade.
- Based in
- Basra, Iraq · Dubai, UAE
- Experience
- 12 years · since 2013
- Languages
- Arabic · English · Persian · Russian · Urdu
- Oil fields
- Rumaila · Zubair · West Qurna
One continuous line
- 2013
People
- 2015
Administration
- 2019
Project Operations
- 2021
Operations Management
- 2024
Business Development
Five domains, one connecting logic
Business & Strategy
Business development, partnerships and commercial positioning — identifying where growth is actually available and building the relationships that reach it.
- Business development
- Partnerships
- Negotiation
- Market entry — Jordan, Egypt, UAE
- Commercial strategy
Operations & Projects
Administrative operations, project coordination, procurement and logistics — in oilfield and engineering environments where a late permit or a missing document stops work.
- Administrative management
- Project coordination
- Procurement
- Logistics
- HSE compliance
People & Organisation
HR systems, workforce planning, recruitment and policy — building the structures that let a project staff up quickly and stay inside labour law while doing it.
- HR management
- Workforce planning
- Recruitment
- Employee relations
- Labour-law compliance
Technology & Digital Transformation
Technology strategy from the operations side — business systems, process automation and practical AI applications, judged by whether they remove work rather than add it.
- Digital transformation
- Business systems
- Process automation
- AI applications
Law & Regulatory
Commercial compliance, contract administration and regulatory research — subcontractor agreements, company policies and keeping operations inside the rules of the jurisdictions they run in. Currently reading law part-time at Al-Kunooze University.
- Regulatory compliance
- Contract administration
- Subcontractor agreements
- Company policies
- Regulatory research
Commercial and regulatory work only. An LL.B. is in progress, not completed — this is not legal practice, and nothing here constitutes legal advice or representation.
Education & continuous learning
- 2024 — 2028Expected June 2028
B.A. Law
Al-Kunooze University
Basra, IraqPart-time, ongoing
Read part-time alongside full-time work — a formal grounding in the regulatory side of over a decade spent applying it.
Certifications
Project Management — Primavera P6
GIPMD
Level 2
HSE Passport
ENI Iraq B.V. — ZFOD
Introduction to Safety Management
OSHAcademy
Diploma in Project Management
Alison
Diploma in Human Resources
Alison
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