Healthcare Strategy & Innovation Manager at SevenSeas Technologies Group

The Healthcare Strategy and Innovation Manager will assume primary responsibility for promoting SST collaboration in Healthcare through commercial partnerships, R&D collaboration, and sharing of policy and best practice.

The jobholder will be responsible for identifying strategic opportunities and contacts, initiating and organizing activities and platforms for collaboration, and delivering results for mutually beneficial links between SST and her partners.

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for the organization work in the Healthcare sector, delivering on an ambitious strategy and further developing it, identifying new strategic partnerships and pursuing business opportunities between Seven Seas Technologies and other organizations in the Healthcare field
• Initiate, plan and execute activities to facilitate business collaboration and to raise awareness of opportunities. These include business delegations, conferences and networking events, attracting the best industry players and opinion leaders. The jobholder will work collaboratively with colleagues and external partner organizations on these activities.
• Build and maintain sector expertise and a network of contacts with relevant decision makers, companies, entrepreneurs, experts and investors. The jobholder should be able to open doors, understand business needs, identify opportunities and deliver business results.
• Facilitate introductions and follow up with companies and individuals to convert leads and opportunities into concrete business outcomes, and will track, monitor and report these in a timely way.
• Represent the organization in tech partnership publicly and in writing, and convincingly present the opportunities for collaboration.

Qualifications

• BA required, MA or higher preferred.  Preferably in biotech / medical sciences or business or technology fields.
• Acquaintance with the life sciences or Digital Health landscape in Kenya– required. Bringing a personal business network from – a strong plus
• 2-3 years’ experience organizing events
• Management experience is preferred.
• Strong presentation skills (oral and written).
• Comfortable working in an IT environment (Microsoft Office, Google apps, CRM, etc.)