Regional Strategy and Partnership Director

Applied Materials South East Asia Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the high technology sector is seeking a strategic leader to support regional operations. The role involves driving change, improving operations, and building partnerships to enhance business opportunities in Singapore. Candidates should possess strong analytical skills, a strategic mindset, and extensive experience in engineering or science disciplines.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant experience in strategic operations and project management.
• Experience in public-private partnerships and negotiating partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Translate global strategies to regional opportunities and drive key initiatives.
• Build and maintain relationships with key public stakeholders.
• Provide strategic directions for internal and external communications.

Skills

High learning agility

Integrated Enterprise Mindset

Strong analytical skills

Strategic communicator

Education

Bachelor in any Engineering or Science related discipline

Job description

Applied Materials is an innovation-driven company. Our ability to identify emerging technologies that can complement and leverage Applied’s materials engineering expertise is critical to the company’s continued growth. To accelerate our growth programs, Applied Materials fosters a vibrant innovation network of academics, researchers, government organizations, commercial partners and entrepreneurs in the ecosystems we operate in. https://www.appliedmaterials.com/company/collaboration

Key Responsibilities

Reporting into the AMSEA Regional Office, you will be supporting the Regional President to lead cross functional teams and work with regional-global executive level stakeholders to:

• Strategize. Translate global strategies to regional opportunities, as well as sense-make regional trends to shape global strategies; align back regional opportunities with the BU business models to enable competitiveness

• Drive Change. Be a change activist to influence and drive progress in key strategic regional initiatives and programs through tight coordination-collaboration with senior management, functions and BUs

• Improve operations. Provide direction on improving administrative cadence and decision making in regional level initiatives.

• Build partnerships. Originate, negotiate and execute ecosystem partnerships in Singapore to accelerate new business opportunities from inception to execution

• Leverage public-private partnerships. Build and maintain relationships with key public stakeholders to ensure Applied Materials is strategically positioned and supported

• Communicate. Provide strategic directions and core messaging for both internal and external communications

Skills & Competencies

• High learning agility – quickly understand the value drivers in numerous science and technology fields

• Integrated Enterprise Mindset – altruistic, strong sense of ownership and ability to work across different functions and BUs

• Strong analytical skills and effective problem solver – ability to navigate ambiguity and a highly matrix organization

• Strategic communicator and relationship manager – excellent communication skills, ability to message and influence stakeholders at all levels

Education and Experience

• Bachelor in any Engineering or Science related discipline with 15+ years of relevant experience

• Experiences in public-private partnership, strategic operations and project management

• Experienced in strategizing, structuring and negotiating internal-external partnerships with 3-5 year planning horizon

• Good knowledge of the high technology and/or semiconductor industry

• Experiences working across time zones in multi-functional global teams