Assistant Manager / Senior Executive (Engineering), A.L.I.C.E. @ SGH Campus (Contract)

SingHealth; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Alice Lee Innovation Centre of Excellence at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) Campus, SingHealth's hub for healthcare innovations, seeks an Assistant Manager / Senior Executive (Engineering) to advance partnerships, provide hands-on engineering support, and drive project execution across the entire innovation pipeline.

You will collaborate with researchers, clinicians, and industry partners, supporting concept development, prototyping, and technology test-bedding, while contributing to grant

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Science, Computing, or a related discipline.
• At least 2 years of working experience may be considered for the role of Assistant Manager.
• Experience in fast-paced environments with diverse stakeholders to advance programme or project objectives.
• Knowledge of technology ideation, incubation and adoption, including deployment and commercialisation of new healthcare technologies or services, as well as market segmentation and partnership agreements, would be advantageous.
• Strong communication, presentation and relationship-building skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and engage effectively with clinical, corporate, and institutional partners.
• Resourceful, meticulous, and self-motivated individual, with strong technical aptitude and is a strong team player.

Responsibilities

• Advance commercial partnerships and support innovation projects.
• Develop new collaboration opportunities with partners, including early and late-stage innovation enterprises, and engage internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide hands-on engineering and technical support to innovation project teams (concept development, prototype mock-ups, design verification and validation, technology test-bedding).
• Support grant sourcing, planning, proposal drafting, and application submissions; assist in technology scouting for industry collaborators.
• Identify clinical needs through engagement with stakeholders (department heads, clinicians, administrators) and facilitate idea exchange as projects progress toward adoption.
• Assist in project management and contribute to the Centre's operations, policies, and safety materials.
• Triaging and matching external requests to resources within the Centre; co-organise relevant workshops and seminars.

Skills

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Relationship building

Team player

Technical aptitude

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, Computing, or related discipline

Job description

Join the Alice Lee Innovation Centre of Excellence at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) Campus (A.L.I.C.E @ SGH Campus), SingHealth's dedicated hub for healthcare innovations, which aims to create a safe and conducive environment where healthcare innovators can ideate, develop, prototype, test, and validate solutions that advance patient care quality and outcomes. If you are passionate about bringing transformative healthcare technologies to life and thrive on building meaningful partnerships, this is the role for you.

We are looking for an Assistant Manager / Senior Executive (Engineering) to support the Centre's mission of advancing healthcare innovation through partnership development, engineering support, and project execution. You will work across the full innovation pipeline, from early-stage ideation and prototyping through to commercialisation and clinical adoption, while helping to build and sustain the ecosystem of partners that makes this work possible.

What You Will Do

Your primary focus will be on advancing commercial partnerships and supporting innovation projects. On the partnership front, you will help develop new collaboration opportunities with partners, including early and late-stage innovation enterprise as well as engage various internal and external stakeholders such as research institutions, government agencies amongst other key players in the ecosystem. You will manage partnership initiatives that strengthen the Centre's value proposition, support in project management, grant advisory/applications and assist innovators in navigation of the innovation ecosystem.

In parallel, you will provide hands-on engineering and technical support to innovation project teams. This includes assisting with concept development, prototype mock-ups, design verification and validation, and technology test-bedding. You will work closely with project teams on grant sourcing, planning, proposal drafting, and application submissions, and support technology scouting efforts to identify suitable industry collaborators who can help advance projects towards commercialisation. You will also help identify clinical needs through engagement with stakeholders such as department heads, clinicians, and administrators, and facilitate the exchange of ideas among project teams and stakeholders as innovations progress towards adoption.

Beyond project and partnership work, you will support the Centre's general administration and operations. This includes reviewing and updating guidance frameworks and policies, maintaining safety training materials for Centre users, managing equipment procurement and asset tracking, and monitoring and assist in the reporting of the Centre's key performance indicators. You will also contribute to resource sharing across A.L.I.C.E 's network of institutions, co-organise relevant workshops and seminars, and support public-sector engagement by triaging and matching external requests to appropriate resources within the Centre.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Science, Computing, or a related discipline
• Applicants with at least 2 years of working experience may be considered for the role of Assistant Manager
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment with diverse stakeholders to advance programme or project objectives
• Knowledge of technology ideation, incubation and adoption, including the deployment and commercialisation of new healthcare technologies or services, as well as market segmentation and partnership agreements, would be advantageous
• Strong communication, presentation and relationship-building skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and engage effectively with clinical, corporate, and institutional partners
• Resourceful, meticulous, and self-motivated individual, with strong technical aptitude and is a strong team player