As a Contract Management Coordinator at Agoda, you’ll play a key role in supporting our contract operations across the business. You’ll work closely with teams like procurement, supply, and finance to help manage the full contract lifecycle, from creation and review to compliance and renewal. Our contracts are organized and tracked through a centralized contract management system, which helps us maintain high standards of governance and control. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact by helping to streamline and centralize contract processes, especially on the procurement side where there’s room for improvement. You’ll be responsible for identifying and organizing contracts that may currently sit outside our main system, ensuring everything is coordinated, traceable, and compliant. We’re looking for someone who is detail-oriented, enjoys working with systems, and can connect the dots across different teams to keep our contract management running smoothly. *This is a 10-months contract, with possibility of contract renewal.* **In This Role, You’ll Get To** * **Operational ownership and improvement** * Be the go-to person for all global contract operational questions or issues. * Support the Legal Operations Team in creating, maintaining, and looking for ways to improve our contracting processes. * **End‑to‑end contract lifecycle** * Intake and CMS record creation (accurate metadata, correct routing), route approvals per delegated authority and coordinate signature, activate executed agreements and maintain the repository, manage signature requests end to end, and monitor expirations/renewals to ensure timely renewals. * **Migration and data quality** * Execute migration batches from external repositories and the electronic signature solution into the CMS: prepare manifests, perform uploads, reconcile counts, and resolve exceptions within SLAs. * Perform contract data QC using a data quality tool: verify payment terms and spend; attach execution evidence (completion certificate or equivalent). * Ensure supplier linkage and resolve exceptions in collaboration with internal stakeholders. * **Controls and reporting** * Operate daily controls (completeness/accuracy); maintain saved searches/dashboards. * Surface issues and drive corrective actions with stakeholders; document outcomes for auditability **What You’ll Need to Succeed** * Bachelor’s degree or equivalent * 2-3 years of work experience in related fields * Hands-on CLM experience (admin or power user) and e‑signature platform proficiency * Advanced Excel for Operations (pivot, XLOOKUP, data cleanup; Power Query a plus) * Working knowledge of S2P/P2P and supplier master fundamentals; able to coordinate with Procurement/AP * Strong quality/control mindset (maker–checker, reconciliation, audit trail); able to operate to SLAs * Excellent written and verbal communication; strong cross-functional stakeholder management * High attention to detail; strong organization/multitasking; analytical problem‑solving * Tech‑savvy, fast learner, curious, comfortable in a fast‑paced environment * Intellectual curiosity, open-minded attitude, and a willingness to learn * Experience with international companies is a plus.
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This is a high-impact leadership opportunity, for a Regional Customer Service Manager to lead Agoda’s Customer Experience Group (CEG) Incident Management (IM) & Dispute Resolution & Privacy Advisory (DRPA) teams. This role will lead a team of Team Managers (TMs) who handle complex technical/non-technical incidents and sophisticated legal, privacy, and regulatory disputes. This role will be responsible for creating a unified, world-class response framework that applies consistent principles of risk management, stakeholder communication, and operational excellence across both incident and dispute resolution. We are looking for a leader with exceptional judgment who can command a crisis when needed, navigate complex legal and privacy disputes, and provide clear-headed strategy in chaotic situations. You will be the key liaison to senior stakeholders, responsible for turning high-stakes challenges into well-managed outcomes. In this role, you’ll get to: * Mentor and manage specialized TMs for both IM and DRPA, holding them accountable for team performance, development, and the execution of their specific ownership pillars (e.g., court matters, incidents, legal escalations, workload management, high-risk cases). * Serve as the senior leader for Agoda’s response to complex incidents (natural disasters, system outages, political events, etc.), ensuring effective war room facilitation and decisive mitigation strategies. * Oversee the handling of high-risk regulatory investigations to specific escalations, data privacy matters (e.g.: Data Subject Right Request), and multi-jurisdictional legal disputes to minimize financial and brand exposure. * Serve as the primary point of contact and bridge between internal stakeholders (e.g.: Legal, PR, Finance, Product) and external authorities providing strategic updates to SLT during severe incidents and ensuring aligned, effective collaboration during high-risk escalations. * Drive a culture of continuous improvement, moving the team from reactive problem-solving to proactive prevention. You will oversee root cause analysis on critical cases and champion initiatives to automate manual work and streamline complex workflows. * Champion a high-performance, high-accountability culture within the team, using data from KPIs to identify and address gaps in team engagement and performance. * Own and evolve team performance dashboards, leveraging data visualization tools to surface actionable insights for senior leadership * Prepare and present strategic performance reviews on the team’s health, challenges, and improvement initiatives, using data to tell a compelling story to senior leadership. * Be the point of escalation for operational challenges impacting the team’s stability and/or operational effectiveness, making decisive calls to resolve bottlenecks, manage crises, and protect both the customer & partner experience and Agoda’s brand. * Embrace and drive Agoda’s ‘experiment and measure’ culture by identifying opportunities for process innovation and rigorously testing their impact. * Be unafraid to ask for help, be willing to fail-fast and willing to take a risk when the need arises. What you’ll Need to Succeed: * Significant experience in incident management, crisis response, legal operations, or privacy advisory within a fast-paced technology environment. * Ability to remain calm and make rational, decisive judgments in ambiguous situations with limited information with a mindset that challenges conventional approaches and identifies deep-seated systemic issues before they escalate. * Exceptional leadership and people development skills; you know how to coach, motivate, and hold other managers accountable for their teams’ performance and development. * Advanced analytical and investigative mindset as you are expected to use data to identify the root cause of complex problems and are comfortable navigating ambiguity where no clear process exists. * Confidence and communication skills to interact with directors and VPs, manage their expectations, and drive alignment on critical issues. You can articulate complex situations clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences, from individual contributors to executives. * Experience with data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Metabase) and a working knowledge of SQL. * Fosters a culture grounded in Agoda values and purpose, role-modelling direct, respectful difficult conversations that set clear expectations, uphold integrity, and support continuous growth for individuals and teams. It’s great if you have: * A background in managing specialized or L2/3 support teams. * Formal training or certification in process improvement methodologies (e.g., Six Sigma, Lean). * Leadership experience in a Crisis, Incident, Risk, Compliance, Trust & Safety Response Teams or Legal Operations role. Location: We welcome applications from Kuala Lumpur & Bangkok locations only. Shift/Working Days: Regular Shift and available for on-call escalation outside business hours during active incidents or crises
At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us. **Get To Know Our Team:** The People Team is a purveyor of opportunity, searching the globe for the most talented individuals and offering them an open, collaborative workplace. By prioritizing skill and potential, we have cultivated a powerful assembly of professionals through our drive for equal opportunity and diversity. We make the move to Agoda a breeze with assisted onboarding programs, and we continue to support and enrich our thousands of Agoda employees through individual growth with outstanding learning programs and various means of assistance. Our development of incredible benefits has ensured everyone can stay strong, healthy, and happy during their time at Agoda. Leading ambitious changes and making a positive impact in the lives of the employees, the People Team is a crucial and rewarding part of the Agoda family. **The Opportunity:** As a senior member of our high-performing Global Payroll team based in Bangkok, you will play a critical role in driving payroll excellence, governance, and transformation across our international payroll operations. Reporting to the Payroll Manager, the Payroll Senior Partner will have end-to-end ownership of payroll operations for assigned countries or regions, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant payroll delivery. In addition to managing complex payroll operations, you will act as a subject-matter expert, support strategic payroll initiatives, lead process improvements and transformation projects, and provide guidance to Payroll Partners within the team. You will partner closely with People, Finance, Tax, Legal, Treasury, People Systems, and external payroll vendors to strengthen controls, improve employee experience, and build scalable global payroll processes. **What You’ll Do:** * Own end-to-end payroll delivery for assigned countries or regions, ensuring payroll is processed accurately, on time, and in compliance with local statutory and regulatory requirements. * Lead monthly payroll activities, including validation of payroll inputs and outputs, variance analysis, statutory payments, funding requirements, and payroll sign-off. * Manage complex payroll accounting activities, including payroll GL reconciliation, payroll funding reconciliation, vendor invoice validation, accruals, and issue resolution. * Act as the primary payroll subject-matter expert and escalation point for complex payroll, compliance, accounting, and employee-related matters. * Manage and govern payroll vendors against contractual obligations, SLAs, KPIs, quality standards, and regulatory requirements, driving corrective actions where necessary. * Build strong relationships with payroll vendors and internal stakeholders to ensure risks, issues, and dependencies are identified and resolved proactively. * Lead payroll implementations, migrations, integrations, vendor transitions, system upgrades, and new-country payroll setups while ensuring operational continuity and minimal employee impact. * Partner with People Systems, Finance, Treasury, Tax, Legal, Rewards, HR Operations, and other People teams to design and implement scalable payroll processes, controls, and policies. * Lead payroll readiness activities for new entities, acquisitions, reorganizations, legal entity changes, and other business transformation initiatives. * Identify payroll compliance risks and work with relevant stakeholders to implement appropriate mitigation and controls. * Own and drive process improvement, automation, standardization, and operational excellence initiatives across assigned payrolls. * Perform detailed payroll analytics, trend analysis, root-cause analysis, and variance reviews to identify risks and opportunities for improvement. * Support payroll forecasting, budgeting, cash-flow planning, and funding requirements in partnership with Finance and Treasury. * Lead and support internal, external, statutory, and SOX audits, ensuring documentation, controls, and remediation actions are completed within agreed timelines. * Develop and maintain payroll SOPs, controls, process documentation, governance frameworks, and operational dashboards. * Provide guidance, coaching, and day-to-day support to Payroll Partners, helping build payroll capability and knowledge across the team. * Support the Payroll Manager with operational governance, workload prioritization, risk management, stakeholder updates, and strategic payroll initiatives. * Represent Payroll in cross-functional projects and forums and effectively communicate payroll risks, decisions, and recommendations to senior stakeholders. * Drive a strong employee-focused payroll experience by ensuring payroll inquiries and escalations are handled professionally, accurately, and within agreed service levels. **Required Qualifications:** * Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field. * At least 5–7 years of end-to-end payroll and/or payroll accounting experience, preferably within a large, international, fast-paced organization. * Strong experience managing multi-country payroll across APAC, Europe, NAM, or multiple international regions. * Strong knowledge of payroll operations, payroll accounting, statutory compliance, taxation, social security, payroll controls, and payroll funding processes. * Proven experience independently managing complex payrolls and resolving payroll, compliance, vendor, and employee escalations. * Demonstrated experience leading payroll migrations, implementations, integrations, vendor transitions, legal entity changes, or transformation projects. * Strong payroll vendor management experience, including SLA/KPI governance, performance management, issue escalation, and service improvement. * Proven ability to lead process improvement, standardization, automation, and control enhancement initiatives. * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to perform payroll variance analysis, root-cause analysis, and identify operational risks. * Good understanding of payroll accounting, GL reconciliation, accruals, payroll funding, vendor invoices, forecasting, and budgeting. * Experience supporting internal/external audits and working within a strong governance and controls environment. * Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across People, Finance, Tax, Legal, Treasury, Technology, and external partners. * Strong written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex payroll topics clearly to both operational and senior stakeholders. * Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and other productivity tools. * Experience with Workday and global payroll platforms is preferred. * Experience with payroll analytics, automation, reporting tools, or Power BI would be an advantage. * Ability to coach and support junior team members and contribute to building a high-performing payroll team. * Highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple priorities and payroll deadlines simultaneously. * Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, multicultural, and continuously evolving global environment. * Demonstrates resilience, ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to remain effective under pressure. * Maintains a high level of discretion, confidentiality, integrity, and professional ethics.