Responsibilities:
- Leverage strong domain and industry knowledge to understand companies? aspirations and challenges and thereby design and execute differentiated strategies to foster R&D partnerships and drive commercialization strategies.
- Work closely with relevant industry partners to adopt technology portfolios and research capabilities through licensing, collaboration and facilitating creation of spinoff companies.
- Leverage an ecosystem of industry partners, start-ups, academia, public agencies and industry associations to fuel the growth of the R&D and industry landscape in Singapore.
- Build a good network of internal R&D capabilities to enable adoption for the A*STAR ecosystem.
- Manage and support the development and protection of intellectual property. Establish business strategies and identify potential markets when assessing competitive technologies to be commercialized.
- Guide junior team members on account management and research collaboration/ licensing deals structuring, monitoring, and costing.
- Strong in contractual terms and apply them during negotiations with industry collaborations and internal stakeholders.
- Lead industry collaboration discussions during meetings.
- Anchor success stories narratives.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree with 8 to 10 years of relevant working experience, preferably with a background in PharmBio/Biotech industry.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to engage and partner diverse internal and external stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
- Good listener with keen eye for industry"s needs.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Able to think ahead to plan and execute with team.
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.
