Head of Operations

Do meaningful work with us. Every day.

At Amplify Health, we’re looking for individuals with ambition, resilience and passion for healthcare, insurance, wellness and digital technology. As a fast-growing business with the ambition of making people and communities across Asia healthier, we have exciting career opportunities available to help us achieve our vision.

Amplify Health is looking for an individual with exceptional cross-functional skills focusing on operations and project management with strong understanding in technology, data and product management skills to join the Amplify Health team. A successful candidate will be responsible and engage in variety of strategic initiatives focusing on organization capabilities, operating model and performance improvement to drive operational efficiency, business controls and execution to deliver business outcomes. The individual will also work closely with various teams to support the integration of inorganic growth opportunities.

To be able to succeed, the individual will be part of the core management team of Amplify Health with strong sponsorship from CEO, CFOO, and CPO among others. To ensure connection, effective execution and “local presence”, travel to key-locations of Amplify Health across Asia, e.g., in India, will be required from time to time.

Who we are

Amplify Health Asia Pte. Limited (Amplify Health) is a leading health technology and analytics organization, providing our customers with integrated solutions to improve outcomes for individuals and the sustainability of health systems.

The vision for Amplify Health is to be a leading digital health technology and integrated solutions business. We aim to be a trusted custodian of Asia's largest repository of health data, unifying financial, clinical, operational and behavioural data to empower our customers with insights that highlight opportunities to deliver better value and care outcomes.

How you would make a difference

Target Operating Model

• Work with key stakeholders to design an agile operating model that is fit for purpose and appropriate (lean, yet compliant) for a start up business in the Health Technology industry. In particular, drive the move to a more product-led organisation, across product, technology, data, commercial/clients, and other key areas like finance. Develop goals/OKRs and KPIs to create joint accountability across functions and transparency on progress of implementation.
• As part of the TOM, assess and plan for the introduction of high level goals and useable SOPs across the critical processes, including the (product) development and deployment lifecycles (e.g., OKRs, QBRs, user forums, DevSecOps, …)
• Implement and execute the agreed target operating model across the business and different teams (incl. product, data, technology and commercial/client) that transition from the current siloed model to a more joined up and collaborative model, including Vitality and acquisitions.
• Structure, organise and execute the organisation build out in satellite locations, with India as a key focus. Ensure linkage into the new TOM and the product-led organisation.
• Collaborate with, and coach, the ExCo and other key stakeholders, esp. during the transition phases to the new TOM, to introduce, enable and deliver an innovation-focussed, agile and empowered organization (e.g., agile ways of working, modern software and product development practices, distributed development, agile budgeting cycles, GTM)

Help deliver business outcomes, prioritisation and efficiency

• Understand and articulate the workloads across the business, identifying resource contentions. Optimize workloads (prioritization, what not to do) in close collaboration with the various teams and stakeholders, taking advantage of the new product-led organization.
• Create transparency on delivery of key company initiatives, focusing on automation and prioritizing available sources-of-truth for reporting purposes, manage challenges, intervene where required to ensure successful outcomes. Recommend strategies to ensure smooth initiative execution and completion to ExCo on a regular basis.
• Develop and standardise core-operational processes and drive a data-led continuous improvement.
• Working with and management of consultants/3rd parties with respect to any outsourcing activities.

Support for strategic initiatives and integration of inorganic opportunities

• Act as a business integrator for inorganic opportunities and other strategic initiatives, collaborate closely with Amplify Health’s head of M&A and acquired companies’ management and other key stakeholders to enable and deliver integration plans and outcomes.
• Work, as required, with third parties and acquired companies to deliver fit for purpose plans and governance to expedite integration and delivery of results.

What you need to be successful

Education:

• University Degree in a Business administration, financial or other relevant discipline

Experience:

• 8+ years business operations including reporting and analysis in a multi-national Financial Institution business and / or consultancy business.
• 8+ years’ experience in a software development or consultancy business.
• 3+ years’ experience of supervisory or management experience in the above position.
• Experience in execution of transformation programs across business and technology in, as well as experience in the health and wellness industry is a major plus.

Key competencies

• Good interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate with AHA and AIA Group Office personnel at various levels including ExCo and Board members.
• Good mentoring and coaching skills.
• Ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines.