AVP/VP, Emerging Technologies (10683)

Assistant Vice President or Vice President, Emerging Technologies

The Emerging Technologies (ET) team mandate is to invest in deep-tech innovation and development opportunities, primarily in physical sciences, which have the potential to drive inflection in existing industries or create completely new markets. The ET team leverages its science and technology domain expertise, global reach, investment acumen, partnership mindset and business development capabilities to invest in early-stage deep tech start-ups which have a fundamental and differentiated techno-economic entitlement to outperform and deliver outsized returns. Within this mandate, the team aims to curate and build growth enterprises leveraging deep tech platforms with globally competitive partners, with the aspiration to create global category leaders in strategically important industries which will be part of Temasek's future core portfolio.

The candidate will be part of the team originating, developing and building emerging technology platforms. He/she should have a strong drive, sense of purpose, capacity to learn quickly, be able to concurrently lead cross-functional teams, collaborate across different teams/businesses and is well grounded in science, engineering and/or technology on first principles basis. He/she must have a minimum of 5 years of experience in business development and/or technology commercialization roles in globally competitive enterprises, and demonstrated ability to deliver successful outcomes. Experience in venture building in innovative technologies and venture capital investment would be an advantage.

Core Responsibilities:

• Ideate and execute ET team platform building and multi-modality investment strategies
• Originate and assess investment opportunities as well as manage investment process from start to end
• Engage all the relevant key investment and technology stakeholders within selected focus area(s) under ET's coverage, particularly on new business development prioritization efforts as well as oversight of platform structuring and engineering roadmap execution
• Operate effectively across and at the intersection of 3 domains: technology, business, and investments
• Create and execute the business case for new opportunities, develop the value proposition/business plan and build detailed financial analysis for these opportunities.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Undergraduate or post-graduate degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) disciplines. PhD and/or MBA would be viewed favorably
• 5 - 10 years working experience in product development, tech strategy formulation and business development roles in globally competitive tech enterprises or multinational companies, deep tech VCs and/or top tier consulting firms
• Proven capability to build new businesses from inception and drive towards successful outcomes
• Keen analytical skills and the ability to glean insights from technical, commercial and financial data
• Ability to multi-task and lead in a dynamic and complex operating and regulatory environment
• Possess high level of interpersonal communications skills, presentation and learning agility