Who we are
Employment Hero is on a mission to make employment easier and more valuable for everyone. Our Employment Operating System brings hiring, HR, payroll and benefits into an all-in-one solution.
Since our inception in 2014, we’ve scaled to a $2 billion valuation and gained a presence in 6 countries globally – Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, the UK and Canada. We now service over 300,000 businesses and more than 2 million employees.
The EH Way
At Employment Hero, we’re proud of our unique DNA, which we call The EH Way.
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We are Mission First – everything we do (from what we work on, to how we allocate capital and where we focus) is driven by our Mission
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We are Remote First – we champion a remote environment with a preference for asynchronous communication and a high degree of autonomy
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We are AI First – we are committed to using AI to accelerate our mission; AI is not just a tool, it’s a fundamental part of how we operate, innovate, and scale
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We are Apolitical – we do not take a position on political or social topics, unless it relates to our Mission
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We Live by Our Values – we role model our values 100% of the time
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We Expect High Performance – we set a high standard and we’re not satisfied with being average
This role
This is a commercially minded, high-autonomy role for someone who’s energised by complexity and gets genuine satisfaction from bringing order to chaos. You’ll manage our full saas software spend portfolio and make sure every dollar is working as hard as it should be.
This isn’t a transactional procurement role. If you’re looking for a process-following, PO-stamping position, this isn’t it. We’re not hiring someone to slow things down or add bureaucratic layers. The person who thrives here will understand the business well enough to know when to hold the line on a vendor negotiation and when to move quickly.
You’ll report directly to the CFO and own the commercial relationship Employment Hero has with every software vendor it pays. This is a build role — you’re setting up the function from scratch, creating the operating model, and making sure our third-party spend works as hard as the rest of the business does on its path to A$400M+ ARR.
Your key focus areas will be
- Own the technology spend budget end-to-end: build and maintain the vendor cost register, track actuals vs budget monthly, and ensure investment goes through proper financial appraisal before commitment
- Lead all commercial negotiations and procurement activity across SaaS and software, securing best-in-class pricing, licensing terms, and contractual protections in partnership with Legal
- Drive continuous cost optimisation across the portfolio — consolidating redundant tools, right-sizing licences, eliminating shelfware, and making sure nothing auto-renews at bad terms
- Hold vendors to account through regular performance reviews, track market pricing benchmarks, and surface concentration risk and contractual exposure to the CFO before it becomes a problem
- Provide the CFO and ELT with the reporting they need to make good capital allocation decisions: monthly spend dashboards, savings pipeline, board-ready materials, and commercial input into the Enterprise Technology Strategy
This will include
- Owning the full SaaS / software spend portfolio
- Leading all material vendor negotiations and renewals, including Salesforce, Zendesk, AWS, and equivalent enterprise agreements
- Building and enforcing procurement workflows that give the business speed and confidence, not bureaucracy
- Providing the CFO with a monthly spend dashboard covering actuals, forecast, savings pipeline, and renewal schedule
- Developing category strategies for the top five spend areas, starting with SaaS and professional services
- Managing vendor risk and third-party risk in partnership with Security and Legal
- Partnering across Finance, Technology, Legal, and ELT
Who you are
To thrive at Employment Hero, you’ll need to embody The EH Way – operating with focus, agility, and an obsession with impact. For this role, you’ll also bring
- Genuine category depth in SaaS, tech, or professional services — and a track record of either building or materially rebuilding a procurement function
- A hard commercial edge: you can run renewals without flinching and you don’t get rolled on price or terms
- High agency and the ability to operate as a function of one — that prospect should excite you, not concern you
- Strong financial fluency: you can build a business case, talk TCO and NPV with a CFO, and translate analysis into vendor decisions
- Methodical follow-through: you track things, finish things, and don’t need chasing
- Familiarity with modern AI-native procurement tooling (we use Omnea; experience with Coupa, Vendr, or Zip is useful)
What we can offer
At Employment Hero, we don’t just talk about a better way to work – we live it. Joining Employment Hero means
- You will work remotely, with the flexibility to own your time and impact
- You will access cutting-edge tools to amplify your work, knowledge and outputs
- You’ll surround yourself with ambitious, outcome-driven colleagues who challenge you to do the best work of your life
- You’ll own ESOP (employee share options) in one of the world’s fastest-growing tech companies
- You’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits that includes – a very generous parental leave policy, subsidised egg freezing (so you can make the choice that’s right for you, on your terms), a WFH office expense budget, and outstanding learning & development opportunities
- Annual Global Gathering – so far we’ve been to Thailand, Vietnam, Bali, Dubai and are excited to meet in Gold Coast in Australia in September 2026
We’re AI-first, so you may meet some of our AI tools early in the process. They help us cut the noise, surface great talent fast and make sure every candidate gets a fair, consistent experience. We verify candidate identity and location as part of our hiring process.
At Employment Hero, we are committed to safeguarding the privacy of your application data. To understand how we do so, you can read our Applicant Privacy Policy here employmenthero.com/legals/applicant-policy/
Employment Hero celebrates diverse perspectives and experiences, we invite people of all backgrounds and identities to apply for this position.
