Manager / Senior Manager, Planning, COE Hub

The Lead Engineer supports the Head, Planning (COE Hub) in providing enterprise-wide governance, coordination and strategic enablement of R&T across the three COE pillars - Engineering, Science and Digital. The post delivers a hub-wide view of cross-cutting activities, rationalises and synergises pillar work-streams, and ensures that the overall R&T budget, performance reporting and roadmap alignment are coherent and mission-aligned.

The jobholder will have the following responsibilities: • Policy-clearing-house & cross-pillar governance - Act as the focal point for policy-clearing activities that affect all COEs (e.g., overseas-trip guidelines, R&T budget marksmanship, thematic research programmes) and manage COE Family / ACE Coordination meetings. • R&T budget oversight - Consolidate the R&T budgets of the three pillars, monitor spend against the hub-wide budget, and assist the Head, Planning in presenting a unified budget narrative to senior management. • Monitoring, scorecard & reporting - Establish and maintain monthly monitoring mechanisms; prepare the standardised COE scorecard and provide regular updates to the HTX Executive Committee and other senior leaders. • Road-map alignment & rationalisation - Surface inter-dependencies, integration opportunities, gaps and trade-offs across Engineering, Science and Digital; recommend adjustments to ensure a coherent, pillar-wide R&T roadmap. • R&T Partners management - Surface inter-dependencies, integration opportunities, gaps and trade-offs across Engineering, Science and Digital; recommend adjustments to ensure a coherent, pillar-wide R&T roadmap. • Multi-COE coordination - Lead or co-lead cross-pillar projects when a single-COE lead approach is impractical, ensuring seamless coordination and avoidance of duplication. • Support to Head, Planning - Provide analytical input for enterprise-level guidelines, assist in stakeholder engagement, and help drive the hub’s strategic planning cycle under the Deputy Director’s supervision.

• Tertiary qualification in science, digital or engineering (e.g., Engineering, Computer Science, ICT) • Minimum 7-8 years relevant S&T experience; at least 3 years in a senior technical/engineering role that involved cross-pillar budget oversight, policy-clearing-house activities and multi-stakeholder coordination (budget, roadmap, WOG liaison) • Familiarity with a broad spectrum of S&T domains - hardware, software, sensors, robotics, IT - as required for the COE pillars • Collaborative, proactive, keen to challenge the status-quo and able to exert positive influence across teams • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; capable of preparing concise reports for senior management • Able to work independently and as part of a team • Experience in corporate business planning and execution, reflecting the Hub’s responsibility for strategic resource planning and policy alignment • Ability to monitor, compile and present regular performance reporting for senior management • Strong analytical capability to integrate information from diverse sources and synthesize key issues and recommendations All new hires are appointed on a two-year contract in the first instance and will be assessed and considered for permanent tenure over time, based on performance. As part of the shortlisting process for this role, you may be required to complete a medical declaration and/or undergo further assessment. All applicants will be updated on the status of their applications within 4 weeks upon closing of the advertisement. #LI-CW1