Singapore Jobs Director, Business Development, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa – #seek Position at Illumina Singapore Pte Ltd

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Company	Illumina Singapore Pte Ltd
Position	Director, Business Development, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa - #seek
Region	Singapore
Career Level	Senior Manager
Work Experience	12 years
Qualification	Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Post Graduate Diploma, Professional Degree
Type of Work	Full-Time
Minimum Salary	SGD 2.000
Maximum Salary	SGD 5.700

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity? At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients. Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible. Illumina is hiring a Director, Business Development, AMEA (Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa). The position may be located in Singapore, Dubai, or remotely within the Asia Pacific, Middle East, & Africa region in close proximity to a major airport.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and support partnering activities, including the identification, and negotiation of potential value creating business partnerships.
• The focus will be on partnering with a variety of prospective partners including, to develop NGS applications and drive growth across multiple emerging and established markets for genomics.
• Partnerships will include interactions with academic, research, and clinical applications
• Work collaboratively with other business, legal, and technical functions to support business unit requests as needed.
• Manage the drafting and negotiation of licensing and other commercial agreements.
• Present to internal and external customers.
• This position does require flexibility to travel (estimated 20% travel).

Listed responsibilities are an essential, but not exhaustive list, of the usual duties associated with the position. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs.

Requirements:

• Demonstrated track record of driving significant new partnerships that have contributed to revenue growth in life sciences in multiple geographic and markets segments. 
• Demonstrated competences interfacing with external parties in business development context including a deal sheet to demonstrate management and experience negotiating and collaborating with third parties
• Proven track record working in a cross functional environment
• Demonstrated familiarity with NGS, oncology and genetic analysis. Ability to communicate the scientific and business benefits of specific technologies. Strong understanding of genomics, sequencing, and molecular biology products or strong understanding and expertise within healthcare information technology verticals applicable to this role
• Experience effectively communicating value proposition and technical information to a range of customer, partner, and internal audiences
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and collaborate across multiple projects
• Ability to network, collaborate, and influence internal and external parties while maintaining a high degree of credibility and confidentiality
• Excellent problem solving, verbal and written communications skills.
• Computer experience and literacy a must.

All listed requirements are deemed as essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional task and responsibilities

Experience/Education:

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Life Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Informatics or applicable field or equivalent
• MBA or Ph.D. preferred
• Typically has 12+ years of applicable management experience as assessed by Illumina Executive Staff
• Broad knowledge of all areas within particular Corporate sub-function or a function within an operation.  
• Typically has depth of technical knowledge in function derived from experience in non-management and middle management roles. 
• Requires high level understanding of markets and sales opportunities for the company’s products. 

Illumina believes that everyone has the ability to make an impact, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of , race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information.

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• Industry: BioTechnology/Pharmaceutical/Clinical research
• Registration No.: 200310311H
• Company Size: 501 - 1000 Employees
• Average Processing Time: 30 days