Manager / Assistant Director (Strategic Planning)

Singapore Food Agency; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Singapore Food Agency is seeking a strategic planning professional to lead enterprise strategy development and review across the food safety and security domain. You will shape strategic positions, assess risks and opportunities, and propose interventions to secure a safe food supply for Singapore.

Working in the Strategic Planning Department, you will collaborate with senior management, ministries and industry stakeholders to ensure effective execution, resilient resourcing and continuous

Qualifications

• Experience in strategic planning and development in government sector.
• Strong conceptual, writing and communication skills.
• Ability to engage stakeholders and senior management across the organisation.
• Proactive, empathetic, team-oriented with excellence.
• Background in science, economics or finance and statistics preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and review strategies drawing on best practices across sectors.
• Advise senior management on strategic options to support decision making.
• Facilitate training and share best practices to strengthen capability across SFA.
• Oversee legislative amendments on food security balancing stakeholder needs.
• Establish strategic relationships with key stakeholders for collaboration.

Job description

What the role is:

The mission of SFA is to ensure and secure a supply of safe food for Singapore.
The Strategic and Corporate Planning Division drives SFA’s enterprise strategy development and cascade these strategies across SFA, and ensure optimal resourcing, effective execution and drives organisation development .
The Strategic Planning Department reviews and develops enterprise-wide strategies through research, analysis and consultations with relevant stakeholders, and hones strategy development capabilities across SFA by sharing best practices and facilitating training programmes.
The job holder will play a key role in reviewing, developing and advancing strategies across the food supply ecosystem. This includes shaping strategic positions, assessing risks and opportunities and formulating key interventions to ensure and secure a supply of safe food for Singapore.

What you will be working on:

• Develop and review strategies by (i) drawing from best practices across business, public policy, scientific and other relevant domains (ii) anticipating domestic and international developments relevant to food security, including but not limited to industry, science and technology and societal trends, as well as (iii) assessing and balancing trade-offs.
• Recommend strategic options and -, approaches to ensure a supply of safe food to senior management and Ministry stakeholders (e.g. Minister, Cabinet) to support decision making and organisational outcomes.
• Facilitate training and consultancy programmes,and sharing best practices to strengthen strategy development capabilities across SFA.
• Oversee legislative amendments / enactments on food security, balancing the needs and priorities of the various stakeholders.
• Establish strategic relationships with key stakeholders to obtain buy-in for SFA’s strategies as well as create new opportunities for collaboration.

What we are looking for:

• Relevant work experience in strategic planning and development in the government sector preferred.
• Self-motivated, and possess strong conceptual, writing and communication skills.
• Ability to engage and establish rapport with stakeholders, senior management and contributors at all levels of the organisation.
• Demonstrate values of proactivity, empathy, teamwork and excellence.
• Relevant qualifications, certifications and/or skills in science (e.g. scientific basis of risk assessments), economics (e.g. incentive structures and behavioural insights) and finance/statistics (e.g. commercial viability and cost-benefit analysis) preferred.
• Meticulous, resourceful and able to work in a fast-paced environment.

About Singapore Food Agency

The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) is a new Statutory Board formed under the ‘Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (MSE) to oversee food safety and security. The SFA will serve as the single point of contact for public feedback on food-related issues, and strengthen management of foodborne disease outbreaks to protect public health.The SFA will also facilitate more business-friendly regulations with oversight of all food safety policies and consolidation of food laboratory capabilities to deepen competencies in food diagnostics, and research and development in food safety.