Assistant Manager (Innovation Partnerships), Office for Service Transformation

You will play a crucial role in expanding our network, fostering relationships, identifying, developing, and managing innovation partnerships and collaborations with external organisations. You are required to  possess a good understanding of the healthcare landscape and strong communication and relationship-building skills. Your responsibilities include:

1. Strategic Planning: Research on industry trends, healthcare innovations, and emerging opportunities and develop a comprehensive partnerships strategy aligned with our mission and goals.
2. Partnership Development: Identify and cultivate partnerships with healthcare providers, industry players, government agencies, institutions and relevant profit and non-profit organisations. Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with partners and stakeholders.
3. Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with our internal departments, domains and stakeholders to ensure the alignment of strategies and seamless execution of partnership initiatives.
4. Administration: Exercise due diligence in the execution of partnership agreements. Lead the administrative tasks, monitor and report on the outcomes of signed innovation partnerships. 
5. Process: Put in place an appropriate framework, process and operationalisation plan. These may include the creation of document templates, communications collaterals, criteria checklist, due diligence checklist and process diagrams.
6. Communications and Events: Support the execution of tasks related to the partnership. These may include running partner engagement events, organising innovation-related initiatives singly or jointly with partners and collaborators, conducting communications campaigns (physical and digital).
7. Advocacy: Represent or support the Division in industry events, conferences, and forums to promote our brand, share our vision and generate partnership opportunities.
8. Resource Management: Manage the budget, monitor expenses, and optimise resource allocation for partnership initiatives.
9. Performance Metrics: Develop and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the impact and success of partnerships. Provide regular reports and insights to senior management.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree with 6 years of relevant work experience 
• Experience in strategic planning and partnerships management from the healthcare industry will be an advantage 
• A strong interest in driving innovation and creating impactful change towards healthcare
• A strategic and critical thinker
• Excellent communication (verbal & written) and interpersonal skills
• Adept at handling complex, ambiguous and challenging situations and comfortable with change in a fluid environment and a growing organisation
• Ability to work both independently, with limited supervision
• Action-oriented, highly motivated and target-focused individual capable of delivering effectively under pressure and tight timelines