Founding Client Operations Associate APAC

Technology is one of the biggest items in an enterprise CFOs budget second only to headcount. Traditional procurement is one of the most frustrating friction-filled bottlenecks in the modern business.

Vertice is the worlds first Intelligent Procurement Platform eliminating this chaos. By combining agentic workflows deep AI insights and a global network of expert negotiators we empower enterprises to buy smarter and scale at pace.

The market response has been unprecedented:

• $75bn in spend processed across our platform.

• 20% savings consistently delivered to our customers.

• 70% reduction in standard enterprise procurement cycles.

• 13X revenue growth achieved over the last two years alone.

Founded by serial technology entrepreneurs Roy and Eldar Tuvey who have successfully scaled and exited two category-defining platforms and created $600M in enterprise value we are backed by over $100M in Series C funding from tier 1 global investors including Bessemer Venture Partners 83North Lakestar. We have also been recognized as the #2 fastest-growing company on the Sunday Times Tech 100 and the fastest-growing startup in the UK and Ireland by the FTs Sifted (#4 in Europe).

With headquarters in London and hubs in New York Brno Sydney and Johannesburg we are fundamentally reshaping the global B2B economy.

The Role

This is our first Client Operations hire in APAC. Youll be joining a global team thats already built the playbook for how clients onboard to Vertice your job is bringing that to the region and adapting it to how APAC customers work. You will own the most critical phase of the customer journey: converting a signed contract into active happy users on our platform.

We are looking for exceptional people who arent satisfied with conventional career paths and want to do something more entrepreneurial. This role will provide you with a seat on one of Europes fastest-growing rocket ship companies and a pathway into Account Management (strategic commercial and client relationship owner) Procurement (full-stack negotiator with SaaS vendors) Solutions (product and process transformation owner) Client Strategy & Operations or generalist roles across the business in operations strategy data or GTM.

As the first Client Ops hire in the region your fingerprints will be on how the function operates in APAC backed by the playbook tools and support of our existing Client Operations team globally. Youll help shape what a regional team looks like as it grows.

What You Can Expect

• Build the Blueprint. Design and iterate on our onboarding processes identifying ways to automate and streamline how we welcome new clients. Youll experiment with AI tooling and new approaches to make this function world-class from day one.

• Data Stewardship. Master the collection and structuring of client spend data uploading contracts ensuring accuracy maintaining quality on an ongoing basis. The standard is 99.99% accuracy same-day. Every inaccurate data point is a trust problem with a real client. Youll work closely with our Data and Procurement teams to ensure zero discrepancies to power our AI insights.

• Maintain Stack Hygiene. Keep client accounts clean and current closing out expired contracts and gaps in the data so every account reflects whats actually live. Its unglamorous work but its the foundation everything else from onboarding to renewals depends on.

• Orchestrate the Journey. Lead the Success Path for new customers managing timelines for technical setup and data migration coordinating across account managers solutions consultants and procurement directors to ensure a seamless Go-Live. Time-to-value is the metric.

• Stakeholder Liaison. Act as the central hub between internal teams (Account Management Solutions Procurement Data) and external client stakeholders to unblock documentation hurdles chase contracts and keep onboarding moving.

• Platform Enablement & Adoption. Lead training sessions for new users walking procurement teams finance teams and IT teams through workflows and making sure people are actually using Vertice. The gap between the platform is configured and people are actually using it is where client value lives or dies.

• Build Visible Trust. Own performance metrics on stack accuracy time-to-value and onboarding completion. Report them regularly to the teams that depend on your work. Historically this work has been invisible youll make it visible.

The Career Pathway

After a tour of duty in Client Operations (1224 months) youll have deep product knowledge direct client exposure operational credibility and a working understanding of how our entire client organisation fits together. That opens pathways across the business:

• Account Management own client relationships renewals and expansion as the strategic commercial partner to our biggest clients

• Procurement Services become a full-stack negotiator with SaaS vendors advising CFOs and procurement leaders on their software spend

• Solutions go deeper on complex configuration integrations and deployment as a product and process transformation owner

• Client Strategy & Operations build the processes measurement systems and operating rhythm that run client delivery at scale

• Generalist roles across the business operations strategy data GTM. The exposure you get here makes you a strong candidate well beyond the client organisation

About You

• 13 years of experience in a top-tier high-pressure environment consulting a high-growth startup a rigorous professional services firm or an entrepreneurial endeavour

• Youre ambitious and curious and want to learn everything there is to know about client service in SaaS

• Youre obsessed with new tooling and spend your free time experimenting with AI

• Youre obsessively detail-oriented 95% accuracy is not good enough. You care about getting things right every time and you dont cut corners even when the work is tedious

• You naturally build rapport and meaningful relationships you have the confidence to speak to anyone whether its a CFO or a junior procurement analyst

• Youre highly organised a master of juggling lots of things at once

• Youre an outstanding communicator verbal written and when presenting. Clear and concise even when explaining complex topics

• Youre entrepreneurial and want to be part of building something that matters

Why Join Vertice

• Shape the Region. As the first Client Ops hire in APAC youll define how the function works in the region backed by an established global team.

• Fast-Track Growth. Join one of the UKs fastest-growing scaleups on a 13x growth trajectory.

• Equity. Share in our collective success with generous equity options.

• Culture. Transparent collaborative growth mindset. We value diversity and ambition in equal measure.

Final things to note

Vertice is an equal opportunities employer although you must be legally able to work in the specified region of the job. Any personal data you provide will be processed in accordance with Vertices privacy policy and applicable data protection law.

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