Head of Trading Venue Operations, APAC

The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure.
Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.
Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.
The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world’s leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform.
Founded in London in 1866, the Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,200 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.
Role OverviewThe Head of Trading Venue Operations is responsible for the day-to-day leadership of asset class-aligned support teams, driving an efficient and scalable end-to-end support model for TP ICAP's broker and trader-facing platforms. This includes fostering a culture of operational excellence, continuous improvement, and customer focus, while ensuring issues are resolved quickly and effectively with minimal business impact. This is a hands-on role, responsible for a team of 18 professionals located across Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Manila, providing operational support across five asset classes: Credit, Rates, FX, Equities, and Energy & Commodities.
The team provides real-time support for TP ICAP brokers, traders, and their clients across a wide range of internally developed and vendor platforms within the APAC region. Responsibilities include supporting client onboarding, order initiation, trade management, connectivity, straight-through processing (STP), system configuration and the management of operational incidents and service requests.
A critical aspect of the role is building and maintaining strong relationships with brokers, product owners, and senior business stakeholders, ensuring transparent communication, clear expectation management, and a highly responsive support experience.
The role is also expected to champion the adoption of AI, automation, and data-driven operational practices to enhance service quality and productivity. By leveraging intelligent tooling, workflow automation, and operational analytics, the team will reduce response and resolution times, improve incident recovery outcomes, increase accuracy, strengthen knowledge management, and accelerate the training and development of new team members.
Through strong leadership, effective stakeholder engagement, and a relentless focus on operational performance, the Head of Trading Venue Operations will play a key role in ensuring the stability, reliability, and continuous evolution of TP ICAP's trading venue technology services across the APAC region.
Role ResponsibilitiesCore Broker/Trader SupportLead the delivery of a high-quality Level 1 support service across multiple asset classes, ensuring incidents, service requests and operational activities are managed effectively within agreed service levels and business expectationsBuild and maintain strong relationships with brokers, desk heads, product owners and senior business stakeholders, acting as a trusted partner and ensuring clear, timely and transparent communicationAct as the primary escalation point for business-critical support issues, driving resolution, coordinating stakeholders and minimising business impactEnsure all support activities are managed through to resolution, with clear ownership, proactive communication and regular updates that build confidence and trust with stakeholdersFoster close collaboration between Level 1, Level 2 and Development (L3) teams, helping to break down organisational silos and improving knowledge sharing, accountability and service outcomesDefine, implement and continuously improve operational procedures, standards and controls, establishing consistent, streamlined and scalable support processes across products and platformsContinuously improve escalation, hand-off and incident management processes between support and engineering teams, ensuring efficient transfer of information and faster resolution of issuesChampion the use of ServiceNow and other strategic tooling to improve workflow management, operational visibility, management information and service performance reporting, ensuring consistent adoption across the teamCollaborate closely with Product and Technology teams to understand upcoming product developments, assess operational impacts and ensure support readinessAct as the focal point for Risk Management, Audit and Compliance matters within the team, ensuring adherence to policies, controls and regulatory obligationsTranslate business objectives into measurable team goals and drive a culture of accountability, ownership and continuous improvementCommunicat