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🥝 Lead, Research Portfolio Management

A*STAR RESEARCH ENTITIES | singapore, Singapore | Posted June 23, 2026

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Role Overview

You will help leadership build and manage a balanced research portfolio — spanning themes, maturity levels, risk profiles, funding sources, and paths to real-world impact. You will develop investment cases, lead resource planning, and ensure that the institute’s research bets are strategically sound.

Key Responsibilities

  • Support long-term research portfolio planning across themes, maturity levels, risk profiles, funding sources, and paths to impact.
  • Develop investment cases and decision papers to support leadership discussions on major research bets and capability-building.
  • Evaluate programmes based on scientific excellence, strategic relevance, and potential for real-world impact.
  • Lead long-term planning for budget, headcount, infrastructure, compute, data, and platforms to support the institute’s goals.
  • Partner with finance, HR, operations, IT, and research teams...

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