• Oversee and set the strategic direction for R&D and Sales, ensuring alignment with company goals to drive growth and innovation.
• Develop and implement sales strategies to increase revenue and expand market share.
• Ensure R&D efforts focus on creating products that meet customer needs and market demands.
• Lead and foster a collaborative culture between R&D and sales teams to ensure seamless product development and market delivery.
• Collaborate closely with marketing, production, and operations to ensure timely and efficient product launches.
• Monitor sales performance, set objectives, and analyze results to continuously optimize the sales process.
• Manage key performance indicators (KPIs) for both R&D and Sales teams, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Establish strong relationships with customers and external stakeholders to gather feedback and identify new market opportunities.
• Manage R&D and sales budgets, ensuring cost-effective operations while maintaining quality and performance standards.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science or a related field.
• A minimum of 10-15 years of experience in R&D and sales within a manufacturing environment.
• Fluency in Japanese to communicate effectively with Japanese clients and headquarters.
• Proven ability to lead high-performing teams with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong understanding of market trends, customer behavior, and the competitive landscape.
• Expertise in formulating and executing sales and R&D strategies aligned with business goals.
• Solid financial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, and cost management.
• Excellent problem-solving, decision-making, and strategic thinking skills.

HE Programme Delivery:
Lead and administer the support systems and delivery operations. Ensure that the Learning Management System is set up in accordance to procedures and take corrective actions to remedy deviation from standards.

Operation Coordination with Partners and Head of Programmes/Academics:
Maintain good relations with partners on data transfer, review of operational concerns, resolve pertinent issues and suggest improvements. Communicate timely updates and changes to key stakeholders including students and staff. Organise events to host partner visits and facilitate interaction with students, depending on the needs, may require to engage in Mandarin.

Lecturer Management:
Liaise with the academic staff to confirm the deployment of qualified lecturers. Ensure quality teaching is provided to students.

Process Innovation:
Spearhead digitalisation and automation initiatives for the department.

Budgeting and Resource Allocation:
Ensure accuracy in budgeting.

Class Scheduling and Assessment Management:
Work with internal departments on class scheduling and assessment management plans.

Marketing and Recruitment:
Engage and support colleagues in Student Recruitment Group (SMR) with marketing and recruitment efforts. Ensure that all marketing collaterals and website are updated.

People Management:
Deploy and supervise work teams to achieve their goals.

Programme Review:
Follow through changes (system setup, etc) for Programme reviews (internal and external).

Regional market experience is added advantage

Perform other duties assigned by the Department Director

Requirements:

· Bachelor’s Degree with at least 5 years of working experience

· Familiar with the higher education industry will be an advantage

· Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills

· Team player with good leadership skills and able to work through people

· Resourceful, self-driven, independent, and confident

· Strong analytical and critical thinking skills

· Adaptive to change, able to work under pressure and committed to meeting deadlines

· Strong command of written and spoken English

· Able to converse with Chinese /Mandarin-speaking stakeholders like students, parents, etc.

· Travelling may be required

One of the oldest nurseries in Singapore, Prince’s has 50 years’ experience in the industry. Started out humbly as a flower shop, Prince’s has evolved into a full-fledged landscape design and installation specialist. At the international front, our global connections ensure that Prince’s meets the needs of our customers. Strategic alliances with Europe, Australasia, and Asia have been a boon to our service-oriented culture.

Position: Learning & Development Manager

Job Description

The Manager, Learning and Organisation Development is responsible for developing learning and development plans based on the assessment of development areas for the workforce to meet business requirements. They liaise with stakeholders to communicate and implement organisation development and change interventions to ensure that the organisation's strategy and plans are delivered effectively and efficiently. In addition, he is responsible for managing team operations and performance and leverages Skills Frameworks in creating learning roadmaps and integrating them with learning programmes under the team's purview.

• Conduct learning needs analysis to assess their current capabilities and areas of development required to deliver against the organisation’s strategy, business restructuring and plans
• Develop customised learning and development strategies, plans and curricula to improve overall workforce capabilities for current and future roles and to promote lifelong learning
• Recommend and implement innovative and creative learning and development channels and technology to engage learners and increase the effectiveness of learning and development interventions
• Equip supervisors and line managers with the skills and tools to mentor, train and provide job coaching
• Analyse learning effectiveness evaluation data to derive insights on the effectiveness and return on investment of learning and development programmes and recommend improvement actions to improve workforce capabilities.
• Conduct organisational diagnosis to assess and analyse the current state and identify opportunities for organisational development and change interventions
• Propose, plan and execute organisational development and change interventions to drive and facilitate organisational development and change
• Monitor the progress and evaluate the effectiveness of the organisation development and or change interventions
• Execute broad-based communications strategy to articulate the business case, importance and impact of organisation development and change interventions on the overall business objectives
• Conduct stakeholder analysis and execute stakeholder engagement activities to manage highly influential stakeholders to support organisation development and change interventions
• Leverage skills maps of the Skills Frameworks to identify learning gaps and develop competency frameworks
• Create learning roadmaps with reference to career maps and skills maps of the Skills Frameworks
• Develop learning programmes and channels with reference to Technical and Generic Skills and Competencies (TSCs and GSCs) of the Skills Frameworks
• Plan organisation development interventions in accordance with skills maps of the Skills Frameworks

Candidate profile:

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Education, Psychology, or a related field
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Learning & Development or HR, with at least 2 years in a managerial role
• Proven track record in designing, delivering, and evaluating learning programs across diverse channels
• Knowledge of current L&D trends, technologies, and best practices
• Ability to collaborate and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Strategic thinker with the ability to align L&D efforts with business objectives
• Strong leadership capabilities, with a focus on team development and coaching

We regret to inform only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you for your interest to join the Prince’s family.

As a Training Centre Manager / Coordinator, you will be responsible for ensuring continuous planning for the training function, assigning proper instructors and classrooms for each scheduled course, and providing schedule changes for other departments in case of over schedule.

Reporting to Service Manager, you will be providing technical expertise to the overall EL services technical training curriculum (ABB active products, legacy ABB products, & AVO Training Institute).

Your responsibilities:

• Providing facility management & oversight of EL services training center within the functional and geographical area of responsibility. Ensuring safety & regulatory compliance in collaboration with Local HSE manager.
• Establishing pricing for courses and provides relevant date for use with proposals. Selecting, managing, and ensuring proper training of outsourced trainers.
• Planning periodic training for course instructors to ensure knowledge of current technical environment and solutions. Maintaining detailed record of the training courses attended by internal resources.
• In cooperation with the local HSE responsible person, ensures that HSE requirements as per ABB way are integrated and up to date in all business processes and applications used for trainings driven by the trainer.
• Ensuring (with HR Manager support) that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled and directed. Guiding, motivating, and developing direct and indirect subordinates within HR policies.
• Developing /following technical curriculum developed by respective primary service centers for all active ABB & Legacy ABB products to support services training needs for both internal and external customers as per the local market demands.
• Developing technical content repository for training curriculums. This repository shall include training content (for both face-to-face and online/remote trainings), hands-on labs, & post course written assessments for both internal and external customer curriculum.
• Personally seeking “TRAINER” certifications of all ABB products. This will allow training for all global products to be conducted in the SG & reduce time & T&L for traveling to other primary service centers for training.

Your background:

• Bachelor’s Degree with at least 5 years of relevant experience
• Good Knowledge in MS Office
• Collaborative mindset with excellent written and oral communication in English.

Interested applicants are invited to apply directly at the NUS Career Portal

Your application will be processed only if you apply via NUS Career Portal

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Job Description

The Global Centre for Asian Women’s Health (GloW) aims to build a global research platform for transdisciplinary endeavours to address major health concerns over a woman's lifespan and across generations. Through its main hub in Singapore, the Centre will engage in multi-disciplinary research to promote women’s health, including a series of diet and lifestyle intervention studies.

Purpose of the role

The project coordinator/manager will play a key role in dietary intervention studies by actively managing and coordinating diet and lifestyle intervention studies in GloW. Responsibilities include performing administrative duties to ensure the studies’ success and compliance. The staff will work closely with Principal Investigators of intervention studies, collaborate closely with the research team, food service team, and other relevant stakeholders, as well as undertake other ad-hoc responsibilities assigned by the Centre’s Director as needed.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

The staff will hold a few key responsibilities, including

• Recruit and interview study participants for the intervention study
• Provide administrative leadership for the trial, ensuring compliance with regulatory, ethics and governance requirements
• Train research assistants/research associates for the conduct of the intervention studies
• Maintain accurate records related to trial administration, participant interactions, and regulatory documentation
• Any other ad-hoc duties as allocated by the Centre Director

Qualifications

1. Possess a Master's degree (in Science or technology allied to food, health or nutrition, or relevant areas)
2. Strong interpersonal and communication skills
3. Excellent organizational and time-management skills
4. Sound understanding of the research environment
5. Adherence to high standards of professional integrity and ethics
6. Preferably with at least 6 years of relevant working experience for clinical research
7. Independence and adaptability in a fast-paced work environment, adept at working under tight deadlines
8. Commitment to the ongoing development of a positive organizational culture
9. Willingness to continuously learn and stay updated on skills and evidence-based medical information
10. Proficient in Microsoft applications (e.g. Excel, Outlook, Word, Powerpoint), online meeting tools

Application

Remuneration will be commensurate with the candidate’s qualifications and experience.

Excellent leave and medical benefits by the National University of Singapore.

First round of application review will start on November 20th , 2024. Position will be closed on December 24th, 2024. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Applicants should email 1) a curriculum vitae; and 2) name and contact information of three references.

Job Description

This is a full-time on-site role for a Research and Development Manager at Coval Technologies in Singapore. The Research and Development Manager will be responsible for leading R&D projects, managing research teams, and overseeing project execution. They will provide team leadership and contribute to the development of innovative nano coating technologies.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 10 years' experience with track record in formulating / developing new coating products with commercial release.
• Experience working with solvent-based paint chemistry
• Leadership abilities
• Experience in paint additive chemistry
• Project Management expertise
• Experience in industrial coating performance standards such as ISO, ASTM., etc.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to drive innovation and creativity in a team setting
• Experience in nanotechnology or surface coatings is a plus
• Advanced degree in Chemistry, Materials Science, or related field preferred

Interested applicants are invited to apply directly at the NUS Career Portal

Your application will be processed only if you apply via NUS Career Portal

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Job Description

The Global Centre for Asian Women’s Health (GloW) aims to build a global research platform for transdisciplinary endeavours to address major health concerns over a woman's lifespan and across generations. Through its main hub in Singapore, the Centre will engage in multi-disciplinary research to promote women’s health, including a series of diet and lifestyle intervention studies.

Purpose of the role

The project coordinator/manager will play a key role in dietary intervention studies by actively managing and coordinating diet and lifestyle intervention studies in GloW. Responsibilities include development, implementation and monitoring of meal plans, educating participants as needed, collecting dietary data, and performing administrative duties to ensure the studies’ success and compliance. The staff will work closely with Principal Investigators of intervention studies, collaborate closely with the research team, food service team, and other relevant stakeholders, as well as undertake other ad-hoc responsibilities assigned by the Centre’s Director as needed.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

The staff will hold a few key responsibilities, including

(1) Intervention study coordinator:

• Recruit and interview study participants for the intervention study
• Implement methods for collecting dietary data, including detailed food intake records and compliance monitoring.
• Conduct regular assessments to evaluate participants' nutritional status and document any deviations from prescribed diets.

(2) Nutritional Intervention study monitoring:

• Monitor food/nutrient composition for meals developed for intervention study
• Collaborate with the research team to integrate nutritional components into the study design and ensure alignment with research objectives.
• Liaise and coordinate with the Food Service team, providing diet requirements, and assisting in menu and recipe development and analysis as required

Main Duties and Responsibilities

(3) Participant Education and Counseling:

• Provide individualized nutrition education to study participants
• Communicate complex nutritional information and address participants’ questions and concerns about their prescribed meal plans.
• Foster participant compliance by offering ongoing support and guidance, emphasizing the importance of dietary adherence to the research trial.

(4) Administration and Leadership:

• Provide administrative leadership for the trial, ensuring compliance with regulatory, ethics and governance requirements
• Maintain accurate records related to trial administration, participant interactions, and regulatory documentation

(5) Others:

• Any other ad-hoc duties as allocated by the Centre Director

Qualifications

1. Possess a Master's degree (in Nutrition, Dietetics, Food Science & Technology or relevant areas)
2. Strong interpersonal and communication skills
3. Excellent organizational and time-management skills
4. Sound understanding of the research environment
5. Adherence to high standards of professional integrity and ethics
6. Be a Registered Dietitian at Singapore Nutrition & Dietetics Association (SNDA) or other well-recognized Dietitians Association -preferable
7. Preferably with at least 6 years of relevant working experience with the application of nutrition or dietetics background

Qualifications

1. Familiarity with local and global cuisines
2. Independence and adaptability in a fast-paced work environment, adept at working under tight deadlines
3. Commitment to the ongoing development of a positive organizational culture
4. Willingness to continuously learn and stay updated on skills and evidence-based medical and nutrition information
5. Proficient in Microsoft applications (e.g. Excel, Outlook, Word, Powerpoint), online meeting tools
6. Familiar with nutrient databases

Application

Remuneration will be commensurate with the candidate’s qualifications and experience.

Excellent leave and medical benefits by the National University of Singapore.

First round of application review will start on November 20th , 2024. Position will be closed on December 24th, 2024. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Applicants should email 1) a curriculum vitae; and 2) name and contact information of three references.

Interested applicants are invited to apply directly at the NUS Career Portal

Your application will be processed only if you apply via NUS Career Portal

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Job Description

We are looking for a Scientific Partnership and Alliance Manager. The role would be to support the Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials (I-FIM) in new scientific initiatives with new or existing partners leading to answering grant calls, initiating new scientific consortiums and subsequent management of new scientific alliances.

The job scope will cover the following aspects:

Solicitation, networking and events

• Support the Director in reaching out to partners soliciting interest in partnerships
• Organise networking symposiums and discussion platforms
• Communicate with partners and align with partnership goals
• Match and track partnerships that lead to concrete projects

White paper

• Prepare white papers to launch new initiatives reaching out to partners soliciting interest in partnerships
• Discuss with research partners on contribution, requirements, deliverables and goals

Grantsmanship support, proposal crafting and post-award management

• Support Directors, PIs, and partners with proposal writing and collate preliminary data
• Work on references, editorial and proof reading
• Compile proposals with inputs on budget and CVs (working in partnership with I-FIM's research administrator)

Liaison with funding agencies and NUS Office of Deputy President for Research and Technology (ODPRT)

• Lead discussions with various funding agencies (Singapore and overseas) in securing funding for agreed research initiatives
• Collaborate with NUS and partners in setting up management framework of such research enterprise space
• Lead discussions on establishment of enterprise, space, budgetary matters, scope of research, deliverables and tracking

Management of partnerships that will involve agreements and resource planning

• Support Directors and PIs on agreements and documentation with partners (in collaboration with Admin Director)
• Work on resource planning and pledging on such agreements
• Work with NUS business office and legal counsels in crafting agreements
• Administer implementation of such agreements including reporting, invoicing, payments and cost recovery (where applicable)

Budget management and payment

• Oversee and regularly update equipment and maintenance budget and yearly procurement schedule to ensure timely utilization of allocated funds in every Financial Year of all external grant funding
• Ensure suppliers comply with terms and conditions and stick to committed delivery timelines. Engage with NUS procurement and legal teams on penalizing suppliers for extended delay in delivery.
• Perform grant virement as and when required

Project management

• Track performance of partnerships
• Write reports
• Joint conferences and symposiums
• Spring board to upscale enterprise and/or scope of alliances

Job Requirements

• PhD degree in Materials Science, Engineering or their equivalent from a reputable university
• Have at least 5 years of working experience in research administration and management
• Experience with grant writing and agreements
• Excellent command of English and communication skills
• Strong people skills