The Biomedical Sciences Industry Partnership Office (BMSIPO) serves as the national office dedicated to driving technology-business public-private R&D partnership with strategic biomedical sciences and healthcare companies. These include multinational pharmaceutical, biotech, medtech, diagnostics, life science tools and digital health companies, as well as innovative local enterprises.

BMSIPO engages and account manages companies strategic to Singapore, architecting R&D partnerships from early discovery and pre-clinical development, translational clinical development, to manufacturing R&D, across the diverse public sector research and clinical institutions in Singapore.

BMSIPO develops and executes industry development strategies for key publicly-funded research and clinical R&D programmes of national priority, including National Platforms and multi-institutional programmes.

In addition, BMSIPO drives and supports several national level initiatives in the Human Health and Potential (HHP) Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) domain.

This opening is for a role as Senior Assistant Director/ Assistant Director in BMSIPO’s MedTech Team. The role will be 2nd in command for the MedTech team to develop and drive strategies, as well as lead engagements for R&D partnerships with MedTech multi-national companies (MNCs), foreign MedTech companies as well as local MedTech companies. There will be 1-2 team members reporting into this role.

Responsibilities

• Identify and Analyse Key Industry and R&D Trends - covering major therapeutic areas (such as oncology, cardiovascular and neurology), as well as technology segments and capabilities (such as diagnostics and life science instrumentation), and feedback these insights into the development of Singapore’s R&D programmes and industry R&D development strategies.
• Drive Industry Development and Company Account Management – Lead development of industry development strategies and align them to economic and national goals. Build trusted relationships with management and R&D executives across key MedTech MNCs and local MedTech companies. Engage with companies to understand their R&D and commercialisation strategies. Identify the right research partners in the Singapore research and clinical community for engagements with companies, facilitate meetings, submit proposals for collaboration, assist researchers and clinicians in putting together their research plans/proposals, provide relevant feedback, and drive or support the contracting/financing discussions for specific project agreements where necessary. After projects are executed, monitor the progress of the projects, mediate between different institutions and the company to ensure expectations and progress are aligned, and troubleshoot where appropriate.
• Develop Networks - Develop a network of relationships with the academic research and clinical community, industry partnership and technology transfer offices, as well as public sector research planning and economic agencies, in Singapore.
• Drive and support National-level HHP RIE Initiatives and Key R&D Programmes – Drive or support the development and execution of industry development and engagement plans for key multi-institutional R&D programmes; as well as drive or support the designing and execution of national level HHP RIE initiatives. 

Requirements

• Minimum 6 years of working experience in Healthcare, Biomedical Sciences, Bioengineering or MedTech/HealthTech with a background in diagnostics or life science instrumentation research, clinical research/development, product development or technology commercialisation.
• Prior industry experience managing research, development, strategy, and/or business development, venture and partnerships in a medtech, diagnostics or life science instrumentation company will be favourably considered. Familiarity with the Singapore RIE ecosystem and the HHP community is an advantage.
• A passion for developing Singapore’s MedTech industry ecosystem, including fostering innovative partnerships with public and private sectors.
• Broad vision of science and technology, able to handle diverse technical topics beyond one’s direct field of education and experience, and awareness of emerging fields. Able to appreciate and quickly understand new technologies and provide assessment and their potential to be applied.
• Experience in leading teams, resourcefulness and ability to work independently.
• Strong strategic and analytical thinking skills, and ability to make judgements and recommendations.
• Effective and thoughtful communicator.
• Willing, adaptable and flexible to perform required/necessary tasks beyond the job description.
• Ability to identify and contextualise stakeholder issues and manage them in an appropriate manner.
• A self-starter and problem solver who takes initiative and proactively tackles problems, and is quality conscious and results oriented.