Total 3 job vacancies by A*star Research Entities

Job Summary

Role Overview

You will partner with senior leadership to shape, execute, and communicate the institute’s strategic direction. Reporting to Senior Director, Strategy, you will play a central role in strategic planning, research portfolio development, and market and technology sensing — translating big-picture priorities into actionable plans that drive real outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop the institute’s overall strategy, including vision, priorities, research focus areas, and long-term growth plans.
• Lead the creation and refresh of strategy documents, annual workplans, research roadmaps, and implementation plans.
• Translate strategic priorities into programmes, milestones, KPIs, resource plans, and cross-functional workstreams.
• Oversee the planning cycle, including leadership offsites, strategy retreats, and annual planning sessions.
• Engage internal and external stakeholders to drive strategic alignment and collaboration.
• Build and lead a high-performance, engaged, multi-disciplinary team.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in science, engineering, technology, business, public policy, or a related field; PhD, MBA, or equivalent experience is advantageous.
• Significant experience in strategy, corporate planning, research management, consulting, or public-sector planning.
• Strong ability to translate complex scientific, organisational, and policy issues into clear priorities, workplans, and executive recommendations.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience engaging senior leaders, research teams, and external partners.

Career Growth & Impact

• Shape national R&D priorities. You will directly influence how one of Asia’s leading public research organisations invests in science and technology — from AI and sustainability to advanced manufacturing.
• Work at the leadership table. You will partner with institute directors, government agencies, and ecosystem leaders, building a high-level network across Singapore’s innovation landscape.
• See your strategy come to life. Unlike advisory roles, you will own the end-to-end journey from strategy formulation to execution — roadmaps, KPIs, resource plans, and cross-team delivery.
• Grow into senior leadership. This role is a launchpad into senior R&D leadership, national science policy, or C-suite strategy positions.

Scope of Responsibilities and Deliverables 

1. Oversees and coordinates ecosystem activities for quantum computing and technologies:

1. Supports the Executive Director of the National Quantum Office in developing and executing a go-to-industry strategy that will support the growth of a vibrant quantum ecosystem in Singapore.
2. Leads the National Quantum Office’s response to key companies interested to deepen collaboration on Quantum with our national-level quantum programmes such as the National Quantum Computing Hub, and coordinate with the Singapore’s ecosystem to secure stakeholders’ support.
3. Maintains a positive and productive relationship with partners, resolving partnership and technical issues on behalf of the Executive Director.
4. Provides industry domain expertise and advice to the Executive Director on industry and enterprise development aspects for quantum technologies.
5. Represents the Executive Director at various stakeholder platforms on ecosystem development matters.

Requirements

1. At least 10 years of working experience in a similar capacity, with background in science or engineering and an understanding of quantum technologies.
2. Good communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills for good relationship management.
3. Strong problem solving, analytical and systems thinking abilities
4. Resourceful and independent
5. Able to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders

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.

The Biomedical Data Hub (BDH) curates and maintains strategic deidentified health data cohorts and supports researchers and innovators with expertise in bioinformatics and A.I. Its mission is to act as a trusted research node that unlocks the value of digital health data to support cutting edge science and digital health solutions that will benefit Singapore and Singaporeans. BDH is a national initiative created by Singapore's Bioinformatics Institute and hosted by the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR) in partnership with Ministry of Health (MOH) Singapore and is funded by Singapore's National Research Foundation (NRF). 

Description:

As Senior Manager / Assistant Director - Partnerships and Product, you are responsible for shaping BDH's product and services offerings. Your ability to deeply understand user needs, both stated an unstated, and translate those into technical requirements are critical to your success. You also possess excellent judgement when it comes to prioritizing the product and services development pipeline. 

You are a systems thinker and excellent communicator who can strike a balance between speed and compliance. Your work will bring together users, developers, and operations teams.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain an up-to-date pipeline of data cohorts that could be supported by BDH by surveying local and overseas scientific and innovation activities
• Maintain and drive BDH product and development roadmap
• Map user journeys and workflows for entire data lifecycle and define standard processes for data on-boarding, management, analysis and off-boarding
• Create specifications for development and services teams to implement
• Create and maintain controlled forms and document templates
• Create and maintain standard toolset for BDH analytical environment

Requirements:

• Degree in Science, Biomedical Engineering, Business Administration or related field
• Strong people skills
• Detailed and process oriented
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills
• Basic financial and accounting literacy, including the ability to conduct benefit/cost analysis
• MS Office proficiency (esp. MS Excel and PowerPoint)
• Previous product management and/or services management experience a plus
• Working knowledge of data science / analytics software (e.g. R, Python) and related libraries 
• Previous experience in bioinformatics and/or data science strongly desired