Overview
APAC Innovation Program Management Officer Jobs in Singapore River, Central Singapore Community Development Council, Singapore at Manpower Singapore
Title: APAC Innovation Program Management Officer
Company: Manpower Singapore
Location: Singapore River, Central Singapore Community Development Council, Singapore
Duration: 6 months with possible extension
Industry: Transportation
Work location: Kallang
Summary
As a support function to the Head of APAC Innovation Station, this role organizes the cadence, schedules, and reporting for Innovation Station activities, and facilitates cross-functional, cross regional, and external partners and client's engagement. It contributes to internal/external communications and awareness, while assisting the Head of Station in Innovation pipeline development, Regional business support and strategic partnerships expansion.
About the Job
1. Innovation Program Management
- Lead monitoring of innovation programs, ensuring alignment with process, timelines, budgets, commitment, and KPI.
- Proactively identify and mitigate roadblocks to ensure smooth program progress.
- Track and report on project advancement, providing regular updates to senior management and stakeholders using standardized communication formats, dashboards, and KPI reporting.
- Manage the innovation pipeline, ensuring consistent flow and evaluation of high-potential projects across the region
2. Innovation Communication & Awareness
- Develop communication strategies and content for clients, partners, and key stakeholders.
- Strengthen internal awareness of Innovation activities in APAC (mission, processes, projects, team) through engaging communication initiatives.
- Create and manage an APAC Innovation Newsletter to highlight key achievements, open calls, success stories, ecosystem trends, and upcoming activities.
- Keep the Intranet Innovation page regularly updated with latest content, toolkits, case studies and opportunities.
- Maintain and enhance physical and virtual Innovation Showroom spaces (content curation, new demo integration, regular refresh cycles).
- Coordinate communications for the APAC Innovation Community, internally and externally, through virtual and physical events (Lunch & Learn, evening gatherings, innovation workshops, hackathons, inspirational talks, calls for innovation, etc.).
- Develop communication assets (presentations, visuals, videos, narratives) to support stakeholder engagement and strategic ambassadors.
- Plan internal innovation events and support communication teams in external events preparation on Innovation scope
- Plan, prepare and follow-up actions on governance meeting in APAC and with Global team
- Support planning and organization, follow-up actions of the Station team meetings
3. Open Innovation, Partnerships & Ecosystem Development
- Perform market and ecosystem analysis to identify:
- Government grants and funding opportunities
- Calls for innovation or challenge programs
- Relevant start-ups for scouting
- Universities or research centers for collaboration
- Strategic partnerships with incubators or accelerators
- Support opportunity assessment and alignment with APAC strategic priorities.
- Coordinate exploration, meetings, and follow-up with potential external partners.
- Assist in client presentations, solution demonstrations, and technical proposals.
- Support funding research, application processes, and pitch documentation.
5. Process Improvement & Best Practices
- Develop and implement best practices for innovation program management across APAC.
- Propose improvement of Innovation processes and support APAC leaders to follow it and feedback any improvements
- Identify and perform automation of processes to increase operational efficiency, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Experience in innovation management, project management, and/or open innovation.
- Experience in communication content creation and event management
- Experience in partnership management with Innovation stakeholders (government, accelerators, start-ups, universities…)
- Excellent communication skills with ability to engage diverse audiences (technical, business, leadership).
- Knowledge of innovation ecosystems in APAC is a plus.
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.
- Proficiency or curiousity in AI tools and digital productivity technologies.
Ramos May Anne de Mesa EA License No.: 02C3423 Personnel Registration No.: R1110127
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