FRACTIONAL COO - SINGAPORE
FRACTIONAL COO
IN SINGAPORE
Senior operational leadership inside your business, one or two days a week.
A Rem.Up Fractional COO is a senior operator who runs operations inside your Singapore business part time, month to month. We send you at least three matched profiles within ten working days, you interview and choose, and your COO typically starts within two weeks. From about SGD 10,000 a month. Rem.Up Pte. Ltd. is registered in Singapore, and the contract is governed by Singapore law.
THE SITUATION
BUILT FOR FOUNDER-LED SMEs IN SINGAPORE
You started the company, you still run most of it, and the business has outgrown that arrangement. Revenue and headcount have climbed. The operating rhythm has not kept up. There is no strict size threshold for a fractional COO, but the pattern is usually a team of fifteen or more and a founder who has become the bottleneck.
Decisions wait for you
Pricing exceptions, hiring calls, supplier issues, all of it queues on your desk, and the team works around the queue.
Hiring a full-time COO doesn't add up yet
Manpower is already your biggest cost line, and a permanent senior hire is a six-figure commitment to a role you can't fully define.
Your team is spread out
Singapore head office, people and suppliers in other countries, and nobody owns how work moves between them.
THE WORK
WHAT A REM.UP COO DOES INSIDE YOUR BUSINESS
Not advice. Not a report. Your COO holds the operating seat for the days you buy, and the work follows a sequence.
The first 30 days: map, name, install
Your COO sits in the meetings that already exist, follows your three most important processes from first contact to invoice, and writes down where work waits and who it waits for. By day 30 you have the constraint named in one sentence, a weekly operating review that runs without you chairing it, and decision rights written down so the queue on your desk shrinks.
From month two: run it
Your COO owns the operating rhythm, the handoffs between teams, the three numbers that predict next quarter rather than report last month, and the managers who need to grow into their roles. Scope flexes with the business: up for a market entry or a systems rollout, down once the machine holds.
What stays with you
Vision, strategy, the big commercial calls. The point of the engagement is to hand you back the hours you lose to operations, about sixteen a week for the average founder, and the headspace that goes with them.
HOW IT WORKS
FROM FIRST CALL TO DAY ONE, IN ABOUT TWO WEEKS
A free first conversation
01
Thirty minutes on a call. We get the real picture: the business, the team, what is getting in the way. No pitch. We tell you honestly whether a fractional COO is the right move, and sometimes it isn't.
Three profiles within ten working days
02
We search our network of senior independent operators and put at least three suitable people in front of you, with their experience, the sectors they have run in, and their day rate. Where the problem is still unclear, we start with a focused diagnostic instead.
You interview and choose
03
We set up the conversations. You pick the person you want running your operations. Nobody is assigned to you.
Day one, typically within two weeks
04
Your COO steps in and works inside your team. Our coordination team stays behind the engagement: if your COO becomes unavailable, we hold the context, replace them and manage the handover at no extra cost.
THE NUMBER BEHIND THE DECISION
THE CASE FOR FRACTIONAL
16 hrs/week
what the average founder loses to admin and operations
50% cheaper
than a full-time COO
Average 2 weeks
to get your operator started, versus
3–6 months to hire a full-time COO
“The right operator, working inside your business, not a deck you're left to implement.”
THE OFFER
WHAT A FRACTIONAL COO COSTS IN SINGAPORE
EFFICIENCY DIAGNOSTIC SPRINT
INCL. AI OPPORTUNITIES
A fixed-scope review by a senior operator, about three days. We map how the business actually runs, name what slows it down, and show where automation and the right AI tools pay off. You leave with a prioritised plan you can run with us or on your own.
From SGD 7,000
Best if you want clarity and a plan, fast
FRACTIONAL COO
MOST POPULAR
Ongoing operational leadership, part-time. A fractional COO builds the systems before anyone runs them: it takes COO-level thinking to create what an ops manager will later execute. Your Rem.Up COO sets the structure, drives execution, and removes friction so the business can scale, with our team's coordination behind them. Month to month.
From SGD 10,000 / month
Best if you want it run, not just planned
Against a full-time hire. A full-time COO in Singapore commonly costs SGD 300,000 to 390,000 a year once bonus, CPF contributions, benefits and the overhead of employment are counted, before a three to six month search and any recruiter fee. A fractional COO at one or two days a week sits well below that, starts in weeks, and can be ended on ten working days' notice. The full comparison, with the figures, is here.
We list our prices in US dollars on rem-up.com because we work across APAC and Australia. The SGD figures above are a conversion, not a separate price list.
FAQ
QUESTIONS, ANSWERED
A 30-MINUTE CONVERSATION, NO STRINGS
LET'S TALK
Tell us where the business is straining.
We'll tell you, honestly, whether a Fractional COO is the right next move.