Senior Manager / Manager (Biomedical Sciences Industry Partnership Office – MedTech)

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 Manager/ Manager in BMSIPO’s MedTech Team, which manages relationships and drives R&D partnerships with MedTech multi-national companies (MNCs) as well as local MedTech companies.

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 - 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 R&D Programmes and National-level HHP RIE Initiatives – 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 3 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 will be favourably considered.
• 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.
• Resourcefulness and ability to work in a team as well as independently with minimal supervision.
• Able to analyse topics and situations, and 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.