MANAMA — Digital telecommunications enabler stc Bahrain has been awarded the Best Nationalisation Strategy accolade at the Future Workplace Awards, hosted during the annual HR Summit and Expo (HRSE).
The industry recognition honors the company’s strategic human capital framework, designed in direct alignment with the Kingdom’s Economic Vision 2030. The human resources roadmap operationalizes national workforce localisation as an essential operational driver, propelling the organization’s structural transformation away from a conventional telecommunications provider into an integrated technology powerhouse.
The operator’s unified nationalisation framework focuses on creating a self sustaining domestic engineering and digital workforce through targeted internal executive pipelines, including the BEAM and e3 leadership initiatives. These internal efforts are coupled with specialized youth capacity building programs, such as EMERGE and the jeel ICT graduate incubator. Reinforcing these skill programs is the enterprise Total Reward Philosophy, which aligns compensation frameworks, professional capability development, and long term executive pathways to attract and retain elite Bahraini digital talent.
The expansion of continuous workforce training and executive mentoring has cemented stc Bahrain’s standing as the premier employer across the Kingdom’s ICT landscape. According to third party employment benchmarks, stc Bahrain is recognized as the leading telecommunications employer of choice in the country, commanding an industry peak 64 percent talent consideration rate among national professionals while placing third across all industrial sectors in Bahrain.
Eng. Fahad Al Owaini, Chief Human Resources Officer at stc Bahrain, stated that securing the accolade reflects the operator’s firm conviction that the future of technology in the Kingdom must be engineered by domestic talent. Al Owaini emphasized that building a competitive, resilient national workforce serves as the enterprise’s primary competitive advantage as it accelerates its evolution into a fully fledged technology company, reinforcing Bahrain’s sovereign roadmap to operate as a premier regional innovation ecosystem.
