Careers
Careers at Salt Corporate Services
We run the operational layer behind serious organisations working in Iraq. That takes people who can hold a plan, chase a supplier and write it all down.
Most jobs in this market ask you to be resourceful. Ours asks you to be resourceful and then leave a record of it. Every request we take is logged, scoped, approved, delivered and reported — and the people who do well here are the ones who find that satisfying rather than tedious.
We work in Baghdad and across the governorates, in Arabic and English, for foreign companies, contractors, embassies, international organisations and Iraqi businesses. The work is varied by design: the same week can involve an office fit-out, a supplier audit, an executive visit and a payroll run.
Where we hire
We recruit continuously rather than in campaigns, because our clients arrive when they arrive. These are the areas we hire into.
- Client coordinators — a named point of contact running a client's week, in Arabic and English
- Procurement officers and buyers — sourcing, supplier verification, quotation comparison and purchase files
- HR and payroll administrators — employee files, leave, attendance, payroll cycles and monthly reporting
- Facilities and maintenance coordinators — planned maintenance programmes, helpdesk and contractor supervision
- Fleet and transport coordinators — movement planning, driver scheduling, vehicle records and cost reporting
- Logistics and freight coordinators — forwarders, customs brokers, import documentation and warehousing
- Project and site support — mobilisation, camp services, site administration and demobilisation
- Executive assistants and interpreters — visit programmes, meetings, translation and protocol
- Finance and reporting — spend reporting, invoice verification, reconciliation and audit files
- Administration and reception — the front of a working Baghdad office
What we look for
- Arabic and English, written as well as spoken — most of our work moves between the two
- A habit of writing things down. If it is not in the file, it did not happen
- Comfort with clients who are outside Iraq and cannot see what you can see
- Judgement about when to decide and when to escalate
- The discipline to follow a process on a day when it would be faster not to
- Integrity that does not need supervising — no facilitation payments, no undisclosed arrangements, ever
Sector experience helps but is rarely decisive. We have brought people in from logistics, hospitality, banking, engineering and the humanitarian sector, and what they had in common was the ability to own a problem end to end.
How we hire
- Send your CV. Tell us the area you want to work in and what you have run before.
- A first conversation, by call or at our Baghdad office.
- A practical exercise drawn from real work — a specification to write, a quotation comparison to assess, a plan to sequence.
- A panel interview, usually with the person you would report to and one client-facing colleague.
- References and qualification checks, then a written offer.
We tell you where you stand at each stage, including when the answer is no. Being on the other side of a slow, silent process is how most people in this market have been treated, and we would rather not add to it.
Working here
You will be given a named remit rather than a vague one, a back-up so that your leave is genuinely leave, and a manager who reads your reports. You will be trusted with client relationships early, because the work does not scale any other way.
Training is practical: anti-bribery and compliance, health and safety, language, and whatever technical grounding your area needs. Where a licence or certification matters to the role, we support you in getting it.
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Graduates and early careers
We take applications from recent graduates in business, engineering, logistics, accounting, law and languages. You will start inside one desk — usually procurement or coordination — and learn the operational spine of the business before specialising.
The work
You will be given a remit, not a queue
A desk here is a named area of responsibility with a client attached to it. You scope the requirement, you run it, and your name is on the report that goes out at the end of the month.
That is a heavier job than passing tickets along, and it is the reason people stay.
How to apply
Send a CV and a short note saying which area interests you and why. A covering letter of three paragraphs is worth more to us than three pages.
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Salt Corporate Services recruits directly and through licensed recruitment agencies. We never ask a candidate for payment at any stage of the process, and we do not accept payment in exchange for an interview or an offer. If anyone asks you for money in our name, it is not us.
Common questions
Do I need to be in Baghdad?
For most roles, yes — the work is on the ground. Some coordination and reporting roles can be based in another governorate, and we say which in the role description.
Do you hire people without corporate services experience?
Frequently. What matters more is whether you can take a requirement, plan it, run it and document it. We have hired from logistics, hospitality, banking, engineering and the humanitarian sector.
Is the work in Arabic or English?
Both, every day. Client instructions often arrive in English and the market answers in Arabic, so moving between the two in writing is part of the job.
Are you hiring right now?
We recruit continuously rather than in campaigns. Send your CV and tell us your area — we keep applications on file and come back to them when a desk grows.
Do you take interns or placements?
Yes, where there is real work to give. Tell us your dates and what you want to learn.
Tell us what you have run before.
A CV and three paragraphs is enough to start a conversation.