EOR for Logistics & Supply Chain · UAE & GCC

Employment and visas for your GCC logistics teams, fully managed.

Auxilium sponsors work visas and employs your logistics, freight and supply-chain professionals across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC, as your Employer of Record. We handle residency visas, compliant contracts, WPS payroll and HR. Whether you're a global forwarder scaling a regional operation, a 3PL winning new contracts or an e-commerce network building last-mile leadership, we carry the employment so your team keeps cargo moving.

Visas & payrollhandled end-to-end
Days, not monthsto a compliant hire
MOHREauthorised employer
Matthew Weeks, Director of Growth at Auxilium
Matthew Weeks, Director of Growth at Auxilium · 15+ years in GCC employment solutions, including logistics & supply chain. LinkedIn →
Reviewed May 2026
However you're set up, the employment is handled

The GCC is building itself into a global logistics hub. Your team has to be here.

Sitting on the east-west trade artery with world-class ports and airports, the GCC is investing deliberately in logistics, Dubai's multimodal hub status, Saudi Arabia's ambition to be a top-10 logistics centre under Vision 2030, and an e-commerce boom demanding dense last-mile networks. Forwarders, 3PLs and supply-chain operators all need professional teams in-region: trade-lane managers, operations leadership, solutions designers and country managers.

That's what an Employer of Record provides. Auxilium becomes the legal employer of your professional staff and manages visas, WPS payroll and HR. Global networks with regional entities use us to keep contract-win surges and specialist hires lean; new entrants use us to put leadership on the ground before any local company exists.

Two situations we're built for
If you have a regional network

We run the employment for you

You have entities and facilities here, but contract-win surges and specialist roles stretch the HR function.

  • Employ specialist & surge staff under Auxilium
  • Visas, Emirates ID, renewals handled
  • WPS payroll, shift and site allowances
  • Contract-specific teams off your core payroll
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If you're entering the market

Build the operation without an entity

You've won regional business or committed to the market, and need leadership in place before your setup completes.

  • Hire under Auxilium's entity
  • No formation, banking or licensing delays
  • Compliant contracts fitted to logistics roles
  • Establish your own entity later if you choose
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Why logistics firms use EOR here
Speed

Staff the contract win

New 3PL contracts start on fixed dates. Compliant offers in 5–10 working days keep implementation teams on schedule.

Coverage

One partner across GCC corridors

Dubai, Riyadh, Jeddah, Doha, employ a distributed team across markets through a single relationship.

Contractor fix

Convert informal arrangements

Resident ops managers paid through offshore payrolls carry misclassification risk. We move them onto compliant local employment.

The logistics & supply-chain roles we handle the employment for

We don't recruit your team, you choose who to hire. What we do is employ and sponsor them compliantly once you have. These are the professional roles we most often handle the GCC employment and work-visa sponsorship for in logistics and supply chain:

Country & regional managersLeadership anchoring GCC operations for global networks.Executive track · golden visa if senior
Trade-lane & freight commercialAir, ocean and road freight commercial managers and key-account leads.Standard employment work visa
Operations & hub managersWarehouse, hub and transport-operations leadership.Standard employment work visa
Supply-chain solutions designersNetwork designers, solutions engineers and implementation specialists.High-skill work visa
Last-mile & e-commerce ops leadsLast-mile network managers and e-commerce fulfilment leadership.Standard employment work visa
Customs & trade-compliance specialistsCustoms, trade-compliance and documentation professionals.Specialized work visa routes
GCC logistics staffing: the routes that matter

Logistics professionals split between free-zone employment, JAFZA, Dubai South and similar logistics zones, quick to process and suited to zone-based operations, and mainland employment via MOHRE or MHRSD for roles that work across the domestic market. The right route depends on where the facilities sit and how the business trades.

For regional leadership on multi-year build-outs, the UAE Golden Visa anchors the people carrying the network strategy.

The mistake we correct most often: running resident operations or commercial staff through offshore payrolls, or leaving implementation teams on visit visas during a contract start-up. Continuing work in-country needs local work authorization, and enforcement in the logistics sector has tightened alongside its growth.

Scope note: we employ the salaried professional layer, managers, specialists, commercial and solutions roles, not driver or warehouse-operative workforces, where we advise on the right local structures alongside.

What's shaping logistics hiring in the GCC right now

Trade-corridor investment and the e-commerce boom are compounding demand for logistics leadership.

Saudi Arabia is investing heavily to become a top-10 global logistics hub under Vision 2030, Dubai keeps extending its multimodal advantage, and regional e-commerce growth is forcing rapid last-mile network build-outs. Every new contract, facility and corridor needs experienced international leadership on the ground.

The networks that win implementation dates are those that can employ compliantly in days. An EOR compresses market entry and contract mobilisation without waiting on entity setup.

Reflects GCC logistics-investment programmes and UAE/KSA employment provisions as of 2026. Zone-specific rules should be confirmed per facility.

Logistics is won on implementation, the customer remembers whether the network went live on the date you promised. The operators that hit those dates have their country teams employed and in place while the contract ink is still drying.
Matthew Weeks, Director of Growth at Auxilium
Matthew WeeksDirector of Growth, Auxilium · LinkedIn
How it works

Four steps, fully managed

Scope the roles

Which corridors, facilities and functions. We confirm routes per market.

Compliant contracts

Employment agreements fitted to logistics roles and allowances.

Visa & onboarding

Residency visa, Emirates ID, medical, handled.

Employ & run payroll

WPS payroll, allowances, gratuity and HR, managed by us.

MOHRE-authorised EOR
Free-zone & mainland routes
GCC-wide corridor coverage
Common questions

What logistics buyers ask first.

Do we need a local entity to build a regional team through you?
No. Auxilium is the licensed employer and sponsors the residency visas, so you can place country managers, ops and commercial staff whether or not you hold a local entity. Global networks often use us to keep contract-win surges off their core payroll.
Can you employ staff in logistics free zones like JAFZA and Dubai South?
We confirm the right route per role, free-zone arrangements where the operation sits in-zone, mainland employment where the role works across the domestic market.
Do you cover drivers and warehouse operatives?
Our EOR service covers the salaried professional layer, leadership, commercial, solutions and specialist roles. For operative workforces we advise on the right local structures alongside.
Can you employ across several GCC markets?
Yes, corridor and network teams across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar can be employed through a single relationship.

Employment and visas for your logistics team, handled.

Book a discovery call and we'll map the visa routes and timeline for your next market or contract.

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