Director (Therapeutics)

Job Description

A*STAR's Innovation & Enterprise (I&E) Group helps companies turn research into business results.

As part of Singapore's lead public sector R&D agency, we work with local and global businesses to accelerate innovation, scale growth, and strengthen competitiveness in high-value sectors.

I&E enables companies to move faster from lab to market through:

• Partnerships with industry, investors, and researchers to co-develop solutions for real business challenges.
• Licensing and commercialisation of breakthrough technologies and intellectual property into market-ready products and services.
• Venture building that nurtures deep-tech start-ups from early concepts to global growth.

Through I&E, companies gain access to cutting-edge technologies, world-class research talent, and trusted pathways to market-helping them innovate with confidence, compete globally, and create long-term value.

Responsibilites:

• Drive KPI & impactful outcomes for respective industry sectors, across all enterprise types (MNCs, LLEs, SMEs, PAs, Start-ups, etc)
• Apply the Quality Partners Framework in the engagement of companies in the respective sectors to understand the companies' technology roadmaps, business models, product/service offerings, and technology needs
• Identify and manage the portfolio of Quality Partners for the respective sectors
• Optimise A*STAR's assets to provide value-add and solutions to industry and public-sector partners:
  
  • Engage with Singapore's scientific units to understand their capabilities and relevance to ecosystem
  • Take charge of commercialization pathways, whether via RCAs, GAP, Spinoffs, Productisation Partners, etc. to bring the tech to market. Oversee management of Gap projects, where necessary
  • Drive maturation of technology and capability to encourage adoption and deployment in partners and end users, in the form of Minimum Viable Product (MVP) relevant to industry sector/market/application
  • Understand, utilize and apply the right tools (Gap, RCA, Licensing, ICP etc) with the right partners for impactful outcomes
• Be the face of A*STAR and go-to person for all matters related to the Quality Partners from initial negotiations to post-project services.
• Make A*STAR a strategic partner to the Quality Partners, intimately involved in the account's tech roadmap and operations.
• Devise, shape and track desired outcomes for the Quality Partners to ensure that activities maximise A*STAR's value proposition.
• Address S&T needs of the Quality Partners by leveraging whole of A*STAR's assets and beyond, including other R&D performers in the Singapore ecosystem as well as partners who can help deploy the solutions (e.g. TEP, Productisation Partners, etc)
• Maintain oversight of all engagement activities related to the Quality Partners, including pipeline and secured deals
• Communicate to stakeholders the impact that A*STAR delivers for the Quality Partners, including to POHs and senior management within A*STAR and wider public sector
• Manage current Gap Projects
• License contract negotiation, execution, and management of all License Agreements
• IP management with IPM: TDAP/prosecutions/approvals and IPMS
• Tech offers management
• Technology, market and competitor analysis
• Lead a team to support overall Industry Cluster vision and objectives, through coaching, mentoring and leadership.
• Lean in and lend expertise to contribute to training and talent development within cluster, RI and enterprise.