Senior Manager - Alliance (ICE)

Position Overview

The role focuses on understanding users' challenges, identifying innovation opportunities, and connecting users with the appropriate capabilities, products, services, and industry partners to address their needs. The candidate will contribute to building and managing a pipeline of innovation opportunities that support organisational priorities and corporate objectives.

Working closely with stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem, the candidate will evaluate opportunities from various forums, engagements, and innovation channels, and help translate them into structured collaborations and adoption initiatives. The role requires both strategic thinking and operational execution, with opportunities to recommend new approaches and continuously improve innovation processes and pathways.

Role & Responsibilities

• Analyse and evaluate user needs through a structured understanding of operational workflows, business objectives, existing systems, pain points, and unmet needs that may be addressed through innovation and emerging technologies.
• Identify, assess, and recommend suitable innovation pathways, capabilities, products, services, and partnership opportunities based on users' needs and organisational priorities.
• Build strong relationships with healthcare stakeholders and industry partners, serving as a trusted advisor on innovation opportunities and capability adoption.
• Drive innovation demand generation and opportunity development through engagement with public healthcare institutions, internal stakeholders and industry partners.
• Manage and prioritise the innovation opportunity pipeline, including evaluating opportunities, developing value propositions, and supporting governance and endorsement processes.
• Facilitate collaborations between users, capability owners, and industry partners to support innovation exploration, validation, and adoption.
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of innovation frameworks, capability offerings, and engagement models within the department.
• Support strategic planning activities by identifying opportunities to strengthen the innovation ecosystem across the healthcare sector.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Healthcare, or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in innovation management, product management, partnership engagement, capability development, business development, strategic planning, or related roles.
• Strong ability to understand user needs and translate them into product, capability, or innovation opportunities.Excellent written, presentation, and communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams and manage diverse stakeholder groups.
• Experience in healthcare, digital transformation, innovation programmes, or ecosystem partnerships will be advantageous.

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