Manager – Open Innovation Platform

In this role, you will champion "innovation-as-a-service", helping corporates leverage technology to achieve their business outcomes and contribute to Singapore's digital economy. You will work closely with corporates to understand their business needs, guide their digital innovation journeys, and enable successful outcomes through two key products:

1. Open Innovation Platform (OIP) - our national digital marketplace that connects corporates with innovative solution providers through crowdsourcing challenges. Through OIP, you will help organisations transform their business challenges into opportunities for digital innovation.
2. IMDA PIXEL - our innovation experience centre where corporates can explore and engage with emerging technologies in a tactile business-contextualised manner. Here, you will facilitate hands-on technology discovery and adoption.

Why Join:

• Be part of a young, vibrant, fun and transforming team to strategise, refine and execute the OIP product for the next bound.
• Shape the ethos of a start-up in government, being scrappy, running fast and lean, and failing forward.
• Rare opportunity to co-develop and drive an innovation platform in government, to benefit corporates, industry at large and the economy at scale.
• Enjoy a collaborative environment where you can work with a diverse range of stakeholders, including ecosystem and industry partners, innovation community groups and government agencies.

Industry Engagement and Project Management:

• Drive Corporate Innovation: Be able to identify corporate partners, articulate OIP's value proposition and convert/onboard them for innovation challenges, working closely to define and refine problem statements, and translate business requirements into clear challenge briefs.
• Lead Innovation Challenge Management: Oversee end-to-end project lifecycle of multiple innovation challenges, coordinate and project manage between challenge owners, solution providers, and internal stakeholders to achieve key outcomes.
• Strategic Account Management: Develop and execute strategies for key stakeholders to build and maintain strong relationships with corporates, identifying opportunities for deeper collaboration and value creation.
• Grant management: Leverage appropriate grant instruments to drive partnerships with industry, accelerate sector-level innovation, and drive impactful sector use cases.
• Data-driven: Leverage historical data, market research and industry trends to develop and refine engagement strategies, while establishing quantifiable metrics to track and measure innovation project outcomes.

Requirements:

• At least 3 to 5 years of relevant experience in industry-facing/corporate-facing roles, digital innovation, or related fields.
• Familiarity with the innovation ecosystem (e.g., corporate innovation roles, technology accelerators, incubators) is a plus.
• Experience in roles involving strategic planning and programme review is advantageous.
• Strong ability to adapt to changes, thinking out of the box and armed with a challenger mindset.
• Strong strategic, analytical, and creative thinking skills, coupled with advanced problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels.