Verto - Expansion Lead
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Requirements
• Professional Experience: 5+ years’ experience in operations, expansion, or programme management, preferably within the fintech or payments sector. • High Agency: A proven ability to take initiative and drive complex projects to completion. You are a self-starter who finds creative solutions to navigate obstacles and deliver results. • Commercial Savvy: A strong understanding of how operational execution impacts the bottom line. You can balance high-level strategic goals with the granular details required for successful market entry. • Stakeholder Collaboration: Exceptional ability to build consensus across internal departments and influence external partners to meet Verto's expansion goals. • Analytical & Organised: A rigorous approach to documentation and project tracking. You can synthesise fragmented information into clear, actionable roadmaps. • Global Mindset: Experience working across diverse geographic markets and an understanding of the unique nuances involved in expanding across both emerging and developed economies. • Builder Mindset: The agility to thrive in a fast-paced scale-up environment and the capability to create structure and clarity within ambiguous situations.
Responsibilities
• Strategic Market Orchestration: Lead the end-to-end delivery of market launches. You will ensure all functional workstreams are aligned toward shared commercial milestones. • Partnership Management: Proactively manage relationships with banking partners, legal advisors, and regulators in our expansion markets. You will be responsible for driving momentum with external stakeholders, ensuring that project timelines remain on track through clear communication and expectation setting. • Expansion Playbook Development: Codify our market entry process into a repeatable, scalable playbook. You will document lessons learned from each launch to continuously improve our time-to-market and operational efficiency. • Product Localisation & Feedback: Act as the bridge between local market requirements and our global Product team. You will ensure that each market launch is supported by a product that meets local customer needs and regulatory standards. • Knowledge Integration: Bridge information gaps by maintaining a comprehensive project view that encompasses the entire lifecycle of a market. You will ensure key stakeholders are consistently informed and that cross-functional teams are focused on the highest-impact priorities. • Transition & Handover: Manage the critical phase between a market going live and the long-term handover to local Country Managers or Business-as-Usual (BAU) teams, ensuring no loss of momentum during the transition.
Benefits
• Insurance paid by the company • Health and wellness benefits (with specific added benefits depending on the location of the role) • Yearly salary review based on inflation, personal and business performance • Access to entire Udemy’s library • Budget for professional development courses • Work-From-Anywhere policy for certain durations • Integration programme (opportunity to work from our global offices) • Regular team social events • Pension scheme (depending on the role location) • Flexible work arrangements • Exposure to work with globally distributed teams • Location specific benefits like car lease policy, cycle to work, gym membership, etc. • You’ll Fit Right In If You • Love asking “why?” • Value solving problems over just completing tasks • Understand sync vs. async communication practices • Thrive in ambiguity and change • Actively seek feedback • Prioritise impact over activity • Are fun to work with - we love good humour! • Mission-Driven Impact Work: Be at the forefront of simplifying cross-border payments, directly contributing to a borderless future for global businesses, particularly in emerging markets. • High Performance & Ownership: We empower you to take risks, be results-driven, and take ownership. Act fast, deliver impactful results, and make the impossible possible. We set you up for success. • Collaborative & Supportive Environment: We work "as one," sharing successes and failures openly. We foster a transparent, supportive atmosphere where everyone does their best. A community of colleagues from varied backgrounds, who care deeply about their craft, collaborate with purpose, and enjoy the journey together. • Industry Competitive Compensation & Benefits: We compensate our employees in recognition of the great value they bring to the business; our compensation and benefits package are competitive in the industry across all our geographies. This includes performance based salary reviews, comprehensive health and wellness benefits, generous paid time off and flexible working arrangements to support your career and life. • Our Core Values: Our core values mirror the focus we have, energy we bring to work and shared expectations within the team. • Champion the Mission: We are driven by curiosity and belief to solve cross-border payments pain points globally. • Be the Best: We are open, take appropriate risks, adopt a results-driven approach, and are the best at what we do. • Work as One: We are transparent with sharing failures and mistakes as well as successes. • Go the Extra Mile: We deliver beyond what is possible. We make impossible possible. • Customer First: We are creative in solving existing problems and bold in designing a new and better experience for customers. • Run with It: We are determined, seek challenges, take ownership of tasks, act fast and deliver results. • Diversity & Inclusion at Verto • Verto is an equal opportunities employer and we value diversity. Anyone seeking employment at Verto is considered based on Merit, Competence, Qualifications and their Talent. We are proud to be a truly international team and we do not discriminate in our hiring process.
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