General Manager (Singapore)
Job Description
Qualifications & Experience
- Relevant managerial, sales, IT, and process abilities, supported by academic education (Master’s degree or equivalent).
- Extensive practical experience (10+ years) within the IT consultancy sector, with a strong understanding of Life Science customers’ needs and expectations for professional IT services.
- Practical managerial and leadership experience (5-8+ years).
- Experience communicating at the management level.
- Experience working in different cultures.
- Supplementary education and extensive management experience across multiple business areas.
- Applies extraordinary expertise across functions or areas of business.
Responsibilities
General Management
- Manage team in Singapore, taking consolidated, overriding business responsibility for the company.
- Serve as a member of the company VP-Group, collaborating with other management colleagues to ensure the company achieves its strategic objectives and financial goals.
- Build and maintain client relationships, including marketing the company to potential clients, preparing proposals and agreements, and managing ongoing client relationships.
Market Development
- Responsible for managing all operations within Singapore, including profit, revenue, cash, and targets.
- Develop a successful commercial development strategy for the country.
- Drive both new business and current account growth through business development research and sales initiatives.
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, benchmarking practices, and participating in professional societies.
- Monitor the effectiveness of marketing programs against key performance indicators and provide regular reports on results and progress.
Financial Management
- Define and implement annual budget plans and forecasts, providing regular reports to headquarters.
- Ensure accurate financial reporting requirements are met.
- Manage costs within the assigned budget.
Human Resource Management
- Recruit and manage staff, including performance monitoring, mentoring, and training as needed.
- Identify, maintain, and develop relationships with customers, government agencies, professional organizations, and employees.
- Enforce ethical business practices.
Impact
- Define strategy and business plans aligned with the company’s vision and strategic goals.
- Responsible for budget and contributes to the overall business development of the company.
- Create results that significantly affect the company’s business outcomes.
Communication
- Communicate with customers and external partners, often involving complex communication and negotiation.
- Convince external parties with different perspectives and interests.
Innovation
- Analyze complex issues and improve methods, concepts, techniques, or processes across areas of work or functions.
- Drive innovation based on input from others and personal experience.
Knowledge
- Long higher education (Master’s degree) with supplementary education.
- Minimum 8+ years of work experience.
- Extensive management experience in multiple business areas.
- Extraordinary expertise applied across functions or areas of business.