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Helpling APAC

Category Lead (Vertical Services) (all genders)

5-7 Years
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Job Description

YOUR IMPACT - YOUR ROLE

As our Category Lead for Vertical Services, you will be responsible for scaling Helpling Singapore's non-cleaning service categories and transforming them into a key growth engine. You will drive category strategy, strengthen operational excellence, and build a high-performing ecosystem of partners and service providers.

You'll work across strategy, partner management, operations, and product enablement - ensuring service quality, profitability, utilisation, and customer satisfaction. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building, optimising, and scaling business functions from the ground up, especially in a fast-moving environment.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

Category Strategy & Development

  • Co-define and execute growth strategy for vertical services aligned with business goals
  • Evaluate existing services to identify opportunities for enhancement, growth, or repositioning
  • Develop a sustainable roadmap for category expansion, profitability, and service excellence

Provider Operations & Partner Excellence

  • Establish scalable SOPs and workflows to support provider onboarding, readiness, and performance
  • Build and maintain a healthy pipeline of high-quality service partners to meet demand and utilisation targets
  • Set and track performance KPIs for partner agencies and service providers
  • Lead partner engagement and improvement initiatives to drive quality, retention, and accountability
  • Equip partner managers with frameworks, tools, and guidance to achieve performance targets

Service Quality & Provider Experience

  • Act as the voice of the provider and champion initiatives that enhance experience, satisfaction, and feedback loops
  • Cultivate a strong service culture with consistency, reliability, and high-quality delivery

Data-driven Performance & Continuous Improvement

  • Analyse commercial and operational performance, identify improvement opportunities, and implement solutions
  • Lead category-level improvement projects to enhance efficiency and service reliability

Cross-Functional Leadership

  • Work closely with internal teams to align on goals, campaigns, and product needs
  • Serve as the primary point-of-contact for management on all vertical services matters

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Experience & Skills

  • 5+ years experience in category management, operations, or business ownership roles
  • Proven experience in marketplaces, gig-economy platforms, logistics, or service businesses preferred
  • Strong operational understanding and ability to build structured systems and processes
  • Demonstrated ability to drive commercial outcomes and manage partner ecosystems
  • Data-driven decision-maker with strong analytical and problem-solving mindset
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Who you are

  • A builder, not just a maintainer - excited to create, refine, and scale systems
  • Hands-on, resourceful, and comfortable balancing strategic and execution work
  • Strong leadership presence - able to influence, support, and elevate team performance
  • Customer- and provider-centric, with a passion for service quality and improving experiences
  • Comfortable in ambiguity, proactive in creating clarity and momentum

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US

  • Competitive compensation and performance bonus
  • Opportunity to build and scale a fast-growing business unit in Singapore
  • Autonomy to lead strategic initiatives with meaningful business impact
  • Hybrid work environment with flexibility and trust
  • A diverse, international team with ambitious goals and a collaborative culture
  • Personal and professional development opportunities - we believe in growing our people as we grow the business

APPLY NOW

Ready to shape the growth of Helpling's vertical services in Singapore If you are a strategic operator, a builder at heart, and excited to lead a category from scale-up to success, we'd love to meet you.

Apply now and help us redefine home & lifestyle services across APAC.

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