Senior Manager / Manager (Future Systems & Innovation)

Ministry of Health; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Ministry of Health in Singapore seeks to advance its Future Systems & Innovation Division’s agenda by shaping national AI, robotics, and health-tech initiatives. The role involves coordinating strategy, funding, and multi-stakeholder engagement to translate innovations into scalable public health impact.

You will work across divisions and with partners to ensure policy alignment, measure grant success, and drive programme outcomes in a fast-paced government environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in strategic planning and policy translation within healthcare or STEM fields.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and partners across public and private sectors.
• Strong analytical and written/oral communication skills.
• Comfortable working under tight timelines and high-pressure environments.
• Experience administering funds or grants and evaluating outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Strategic planning and implementation of MOH innovations strategy, including AI roadmap and robotics initiatives.
• Administer and drive the MOH Health Innovation Fund and funding strategy with measurement of grant outcomes.
• Serve as relationship manager to key stakeholders to enable cross‑agency and international partnerships.

Skills

Strategic planning

Policy translation

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

Healthcare/ Science/ Engineering/ Technology education

Job description

What the role is:

The Future Systems & Innovation Division oversees MOH’s innovation strategy, which aims to catalise and drive the translation of good, cost-effective health innovations and technologies into impactful implementations across the Singapore healthcare ecosystem. Key areas are MOH’s national artificial intelligence (AI) strategy, the use of robotics and automation, sensors and wearables, and other product/process innovations. This involves steering, supporting, evaluating health technologies in the public healthcare sector and roadmapping proven technologies or solutions through to national level impact. To support this strategy, FSID has established a pathway for wider adoption, scaling and mainstreaming (e.g. MOH policies, regulations, platforms, procurement); administers the MOH Health Innovation Fund; and works closely with a wide network of both internal and external stakeholders and partners to develop an enabling ecosystem. All FSID officers need to flex across strategic planning, resource management, and stakeholder management and manage multiple priorities and stakeholders.You will be working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment that would require the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders at the same time.

What you will be working on:

1. Strategic planning and implementation of MOH’s innovations strategy - particularly on MOH’s national AI roadmap and mission strategy, robotics and automation, and other potentially high-impact process and product innovations. This will require working closely with MOH policy divisions, and wider ecosystem stakeholders, and may involve you supporting strategic workgroups/ taskforces.


2. Administer and drive the MOH Health Innovation Fund and funding strategy. This will also involve measuring and tracking the success of grant investments, to ensure alignment of funded activities with desired innovation strategy outcomes; as well as conducting regular policy reviews and innovating or refreshing our funding strategy to better achieve grant objectives.


3. Be a relationship manager to key stakeholders (e.g. a healthcare cluster) to drive the broader innovation strategy and facilitate programme/ project outcomes as supported by the MOH Health Innovation Fund. This will also involve strategic local and international engagements to forge multi-stakeholder partnerships, ensure a collaborative and enabling ecosystem and clear translation pathway for proven innovations to scale towards national impact.

What we are looking for:

• Education in Healthcare/ Science/ Engineering/ Technology fields


• Strategic planning, healthcare and/or STEM fields


• Policy, operations, and technology roadmapping or translation


• Strong analytical skills, as well as written and oral communication skills


• Team player who is comfortable working with and leveraging synergies of different teams/divisions/entities


• Able to work under pressure within tight timelines


• High standards of professionalism

Key Competencies Required:

• Thinking Clearly & Making Sound Judgements - Strong analytical and critical thinking abilities to support the crafting of sound policy recommendations; ability to grasp timelines, operating context and ground realities.


• Learning & Putting Skills into Action - Possesses the drive and curiosity to learn and apply new skills, knowledge and new ways of working.


• Improving & Innovating - Ability to seek continual improvements, and to innovate and experiment while managing the risks involved.


• Working Effectively with Stakeholders - Ability to mobilise and rally partners and stakeholders towards a collective purpose.


• Serving with Heart, Commitment and Purpose - Ability to commit to the work scope to deliver on agency and whole-of-government outcomes.

As part of the shortlisting process for this role, candidates may be required to complete a medical declaration and/or undergo further assessment.

About Ministry of Health

The Ministry of Health’s (MOH) vision is to champion a healthy nation with our people - to live well, live long and with peace of mind. As an open country constantly exposed to an interconnected world, Singapore faces complex issues in public healthcare. MOH constantly grapples with new challenges brought on by an increasingly globalised world, a rapidly ageing population and rising expectations. MOH’s responses to these challenges include preventing and managing the outbreak of diseases such as SARS and Influenza A (H1N1), designing a healthcare system that delivers care in an integrated and effective manner, growing the capacity and capabilities within the sector, and managing healthcare inflation. As an MOH officer, you will be involved in formulating and implementing policies that guide Singapore’s healthcare ecosystem. You will work alongside a team with varied skills and backgrounds, but with the common goals of (i) promoting good health and reducing illnesses; (ii) ensuring that Singaporeans have access to good and affordable healthcare; and (iii) pursuing medical excellence. Your work will have far-reaching impact on the health and lives of Singaporeans.