Location: Singapore, on-site (other Partex hubs considered)
Type: Full-time, permanent
Role summary
The Senior Manager, Life Sciences is the scientific lead facing the customer ensuring our AI-generated insights are understood and aligned with customer needs. The person will judge biological plausibility, design validation work, and translate science for business and investor audiences.
Key responsibilities
Scientific leadership
- Building the bridge between the Partex delivery team and the APAC customer
- Evaluate AI-develiped results and align with customer needs
- Support design of customer projects and their delivery
Program and project management
- Run multiple programs at once, owning timelines, budgets, milestones and risks.
- Coordinate data science, lab, regulatory and business teams around shared goals.
- Report progress and go/no-go recommendations to leadership.
Business and partner support
- Present science to pharma partners, investors and key opinion leaders.
- Help to monitor regulatory environment , such as orphan designation and repurposing pathways.
Communication and team
- Write and review technical reports, grant applications, publications and patent input.
- Mentor junior scientists and project officers.
Required qualifications
- PhD in Molecular Biology or cell biology, biotechnology, bioengineering, pharmacology or a related life science.
- 6+ years of research after the PhD in academia or industry, including postdoctoral or research fellow roles.
- 2+ years managing projects or people, with clear ownership of deliverables.
- Solid AI understanding and hands-on experience
- Hands-on lab depth, such as gene expression, cell and tissue culture, or assay development.
- Strong technical writing record: publications, grants, reports or patents.
- Ability to explain complex science clearly to non-scientists.
- Fluent written and spoken English and Chinese