Regional Strategy and Partnership Director

Applied Materials is an innovation-driven company. Our ability to identify emerging technologies that can complement and leverage Applied's materials engineering expertise is critical to the company's continued growth. To accelerate our growth programs, Applied Materials fosters a vibrant innovation network of academics, researchers, government organizations, commercial partners and entrepreneurs in the ecosystems we operate in. https://www.appliedmaterials.com/company/collaboration

Singapore is a key ecosystem for Applied Materials. At the South East Asia Regional Office, we identify new growth opportunities and build win-win partnerships within the ecosystem to realize this growth.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting into the AMSEA Regional Office, you will be supporting the Regional President to lead cross functional teams and work with regional-global executive level stakeholders to:

• Strategize. Translate global strategies to regional opportunities, as well as sense-make regional trends to shape global strategies; align back regional opportunities with the BU business models to enable competitiveness
• Drive Change. Be a change activist to influence and drive progress in key strategic regional initiatives and programs through tight coordination-collaboration with senior management, functions and BUs
• Improve operations. Provide direction on improving administrative cadence and decision making in regional level initiatives.
• Build partnerships. Originate, negotiate and execute ecosystem partnerships in Singapore to accelerate new business opportunities from inception to execution
• Leverage public-private partnerships. Build and maintain relationships with key public stakeholders to ensure Applied Materials is strategically positioned and supported
• Communicate. Provide strategic directions and core messaging for both internal and external communications

Skills & Competencies

• High learning agility - quickly understand the value drivers in numerous science and technology fields
• Integrated Enterprise Mindset - altruistic, strong sense of ownership and ability to work across different functions and BUs
• Strong analytical skills and effective problem solver - ability to navigate ambiguity and a highly matrix organization
• Strategic communicator and relationship manager - excellent communication skills, ability to message and influence stakeholders at all levels

Education and Experience

• Bachelor in any Engineering or Science related discipline with 15+ years of relevant experience
• Experiences in public-private partnership, strategic operations and project management
• Experienced in strategizing, structuring and negotiating internal-external partnerships with 3-5 year planning horizon
• Good knowledge of the high technology and/or semiconductor industry
• Experiences working across time zones in multi-functional global teams

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor's Degree

Skills

Certifications:

Languages:

Years of Experience:

10 - 15 Years

Work Experience:

Additional Information

Shift:

Day (Singapore)

Travel:

Yes, 10% of the Time

Relocation Eligible:

No

Referral Payment Plan:

None

Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Client-provided location(s): Singapore

Job ID: Applied_Materials-R2514155

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-05-20T00:14:57