AM/M, Strategic Digital Projects

The Digital Transformation Cluster (DTC) is responsible for driving digital transformation projects across major economic sectors and ecosystems. The team works closely with public and private sectors to drive impactful digitalization projects, solving complex business-technology problems, involving business model transformation, innovative technology applications and regulatory considerations.

We focus on project seeding and scoping, execution, and implementation to ensure that projects are delivered on-time, within budget and achieve intended objectives which include targeted and widespread adoption. Current areas of focus for DTC include Extended Reality (XR), Digital Twin (DT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) and Digital Sustainability,

As part of the Strategic Digital Projects (SDP) team that focuses on XR, DT and AI, you will:

• Support IMDA’s vision in promoting and driving the early adoption of emerging technologies by enterprises and industries, playing a key role in prioritising value-driven innovative projects and drive future innovation efforts and working closely with both public and private sector partners.
• Identify ecosystem and industry gaps in users and tech providers; develop and implement initiatives to help overcome these gaps that would enable the technology to be deployed and adopted at scale by users from different industries.
• Assess new technologies, build collaborative networks with technology providers, system integrators and research institutes to develop innovative solutions that meet industry needs.
• Scope, administer and project manage deployment of use-cases, implement strategies for eventual commercialisation and scale-up adoption. This includes managing budgets, assessing, and monitoring project outcomes and recommending enhancements where necessary.
• Plan and support communications and marketing efforts to build awareness and encourage adoption.

You would need to have:

• Suitable educational qualification in related field, with an understanding of the landscape and challenges faced by solution providers and adopters of emerging technologies such as XR, DT and AI.
• Good understanding of project execution and has strong project management skills;
• Ability to function in a fast-paced and changing environment, visualise outcomes and provide clarity to stakeholders; and
• Excellent verbal, written communication, negotiation and presentation skills for engaging internal and external stakeholders.