Job Description

Senior Officer/ Assistant Head (Biomedical Sciences Industry Partnership Office)

The Biomedical Sciences Industry Partnership Office (BMS IPO) serves as the national public-private R&D partnership office dedicated to support strategic biomedical sciences and healthcare companies. This includes multinational pharmaceutical and medtech companies, as well as innovative local enterprises. BMS IPO account manages these strategic companies and facilitates R&D partnerships from early discovery to translational clinical development, across the diverse public research and clinical institutions in Singapore. BMS IPO also supports key publicly-funded research and clinical programmes develop and execute their industry partnership strategies.

BMS IPO is a joint initiative by the Economic Development Board (EDB), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and the Ministry of Health (MOH).

Responsibilities:
Identify key market and industry trends and work closely with other public agencies to devise strategies to leverage on the opportunities to strengthen the health and biomedical sector in Singapore.
Industry development and company account management

• Build trusted relationships with management and R&D executives across the industry
• Engage with companies to understand their R&D strategy product/service offerings, technology needs, business strategy and R&D roadmap.
• Facilitate engagements between biomedical sciences companies and Singapore?s public research institutions
• Develop tools to support the set-up of industry-academic partnerships.

Develop a network of relationships with the academic research and clinical communities, as well as industry partnership and technology transfer offices in Singapore.

Project development and implementation

• Identify the right research partners in the Singapore research community for meetings with Company visitors, participate in meetings, submit proposals for collaboration, assist Singapore researchers in putting together their research plans/proposals, provide relevant feedback, and support contracting/financing discussions for specific project agreements where necessary.

Regular communications with company and other government agencies

• ensure that developments at ground-level around established collaborations are fed back to the relevant government agencies as required.

Identify potential issues that may arise in the project development/implementation stages, mediate between different institutions and the company to ensure expectations are aligned, and troubleshoot administrative and policy matters amongst the Singapore entities where appropriate.
Assist in organizing key events such as symposia, roundtable meetings, etc.

Requirements:
Minimum 3 years of working experience in Healthcare and Biomedical Sciences or Medical Technology; with a background in research, clinical research/development, product development or technology commercialization. Prior industry experience will be favourable 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 market assessment and their potential to be applied in different business contexts
Resourcefulness and ability to work independently with minimal supervision, independently and in a team
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
A self-starter and problem solver who pro-actively tackles problems.
Ability to identify and contextualize stakeholder issues and manage them in an appropriate manner
The above eligibility criteria are not exhaustive. A*STAR may include additional selection criteria based on its prevailing recruitment policies. These policies may be amended from time to time without notice. We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
Type of Employment : Full-Time
Work Location : Fusionopolis