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Junior Associate, Commercial Operations

Job type: Full Time · Department: Customer · Work type: Hybrid

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

About the Company

Cover Genius is a Series E Insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Hopper, Skyscanner, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee.

Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year. Our team and products have been recognized sed with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times who ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commits itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.

Our People are Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired  

Our People are not Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious 

About the Role

The Junior Associate, Commercial Operations supports the Commercial Operations team in the operational coordination of vendor management activities. The role focuses on procurement administration, vendor onboarding coordination, documentation management and vendor performance monitoring support.

You will work with Commercial Operations, Procurement and Finance to ensure vendor setup, procurement processing and vendor governance activities are executed efficiently.

This role provides exposure to vendor management, procurement processes and operational program delivery within a global insurtech environment.

What you'll get: Valuable Experience and Growth

Procurement Coordination

  • Create and submit purchase requisitions (PRs)

  • Track purchase order (PO) issuance and amendments

  • Monitor procurement approval workflows

  • Coordinate with Procurement and Finance on PO processing

Vendor Onboarding Support

  • Track vendor onboarding progress

  • Coordinate vendor setup documentation and compliance requirements

  • Support vendor master data setup

Contract Administration

  • Track contract execution progress

  • Maintain vendor contract documentation and records

  • Monitor contract timelines

Financial Coordination

  • Validate vendor invoices against contract and PO terms

  • Track invoice processing and payment status

  • Support vendor spend tracking

Vendor Performance Monitoring

  • Maintain vendor performance tracking files

  • Prepare reporting inputs for governance reviews

  • Support operational reporting on vendor performance and service levels

Operational Support

  • Maintain vendor documentation and operational tracking files

  • Support preparation of vendor governance and performance materials

What We're Looking For

  • Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Business, Commerce, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain or a related discipline.

  • Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.

  • Comfortable working with spreadsheets, documentation and operational tracking.

  • Excellent attention to detail

  • Structured approach to operational work

  • Ability to coordinate tasks across multiple teams.

  • Strong written communication.

  • Interest in operations, procurement or vendor management in a global operating environment.

Why Cover Genius?  

Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. What does that mean?  

• Flexible Work Environment - Our teams are hybrid. We work from home on Wednesdays and Thursday and attend the office on Monday, Tuesday and Friday with flexibility around start/finish times.

• Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.

• Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words!

Sound interesting? If you think you have the best composition of the above, send us your resume and let's chat!

* Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

By submitting your application, you acknowledge that we may collect, store and process your personal data for recruitment purposes. To ensure a fair evaluation, we may use AI to assist in sorting applications, but all final decisions are made by our hiring team and no candidate dispositions are automated. We will keep your information on file for three years from the date of your application.  For detailed information about how we handle your data and our use of AI, please review our full Privacy Policy.

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