The role
We are looking for a Director - Industry and Supply Chain in Singapore to support our work with the Digital Standards Initiative.
The Digital Standards Initiative - within ICC Asia in Singapore - aims to transform global trade through digitalisation, by enabling regulatory reform, adoption and interoperability on digital trade standards, and scalable trust across the end-to-end supply chain.
Your responsibilities will include:
Operationalizing and Driving Adoption of Digital Trade Standards.
- Engage industry stakeholders to promote awareness and uptake of digital trade standards.
- Build capacity within organisations to implement standards effectively.
Support pilots, proofs-of-concept, and case studies to demonstrate benefits and feasibility. - Addressing Gaps in Digital Standards
Address gaps across sectors, industries, and supply chain functions.
- Develop and implement initiatives to create new standards or enhance existing ones.
- Ensure inclusivity of smaller players and underrepresented sectors in standardisation efforts.
Promote technical and semantic interoperability between different standards and platforms.
- Develop frameworks for digital trust, security, and verification to encourage widespread adoption.
- Facilitate cross-industry collaboration to ensure standards are compatible and mutually reinforcing.
- Building digital supply chain readiness
Develop assessment programs to evaluate digital readiness across the supply chain.
- Offer training, tools, and resources to improve digital maturity of organisations.
- Scale programs to support industry-wide adoption and continuous improvement.
- Fostering collaborations and partnerships
Support and advance development, adoption, and scaling of digital standards.
- Collaborate with international organisations, trade bodies, and technology providers.
- Leverage partnerships to accelerate innovation, knowledge sharing, and standard harmonisation.
The diverse audiences that we seek to engage and inspire include corporates, industry associations, technology solution providers, governments and inter-government organisations.
Requirements
Your profile:
- Singaporeans or foreigners may apply, with preference given to candidates holding a graduate degree and over 10 years of relevant work experience.
- Fluency in English (both written and spoken) is required. Proficiency in additional languages and work experience in regions outside Asia would be an advantage.
- Professional Experience in trade and supply chain is desirable. Functional roles of interest include finance, compliance/customs, merchandising, shipping and logistics, or digital transformation (experience working with trade platforms and service providers is a plus).
Familiarity with trade standards and digitalization of trade is advantageous.
