Job Title: Strategy and Business Development Manager

Location:

Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam

Job Summary

- Responsible in defining and advancing a structured healthcare service development strategy that aligns with JPMC’s clinical priorities, financial sustainability goals, and long-term organizational strategy.
- Leads the evaluation and development of short-, medium-, and long-term service growth initiatives, ensuring that new and enhanced healthcare services are financially viable, patient-centered, and responsive to evolving healthcare needs.

Principles Duties and Responsibilities

Principle Duties and Responsibilities

Department Leadership & Strategic Oversight

Lead the development and ongoing review of JPMC’s healthcare business development roadmap, ensuring alignment with the hospital’s mission, clinical priorities, financial sustainability goals, and long-term strategic direction.
Identify, evaluate, and propose new healthcare service concepts, clinical programmes, or business ventures, ensuring innovation is balanced with patient safety, quality standards, and financial viability.

Strategic Planning and Analysis

Conduct structured analysis of the current (as-is) performance of JPMC’s service portfolio, including utilization, financial performance, capacity, and alignment with strategic priorities.
Identify strategic challenges, gaps, risks, and opportunities affecting service sustainability and growth through data-driven analysis and evidence-based assessment.
Lead strategic and commercial assessment initiatives to address underperforming services, emerging risks, or opportunities for optimization, enhancement, or discontinuation of services where appropriate.

Stakeholder Engagement and Governance

Lead alignment of the Healthcare service roadmap with Senior Management and leadership teams, ensuring clarity of priorities, sequencing, and expected outcomes.
Engage and coordinate with external stakeholders, including government agencies, partner institutions, and international collaborators, to support development, partnerships, and medical tourism initiatives.

Corporate Scorecard Oversight and KPI Governance

Leaf the translation of Board-approved Corporate Scorecard objectives into coherent, measurable, and aligned departmental scorecards and KPIs, ensuring consistency in intent, definitions, and performance expectations.
Establish and maintain governance controls over KPI formulation, including the review and validation of departmental and functional KPIs to prevent misalignment, duplication, or dilution of corporate priorities.
Oversee the implementation and rollout of the Corporate Scorecard framework, working closely with HR, Finance, Clinical Governance, and Operations to ensure timely adoption and organization-wide understanding.

General Responsibilities:

Departmental/Unit Responsibilities

Provide leadership, direction, and mentorship to staff within the Strategy and Business Development Department, fostering capability development and professional growth.
Identify and attend relevant training and development program to maintain and develop skills and knowledge required to support clients and service development.
Engage in the creation and completion of data collection, departmental database, SOPs and Policies to ensure organizational maintenance.

Educational Requirements

Undergraduate Degree in Business Management, Strategic Marketing, Finance, Economics or in any other related field from an institute recognized by the Government of His Majesty of Negara Brunei Darussalam is required.
A Postgraduate Degree in Business Management, Strategic Marketing, Finance, Economics relevant field from an institute recognized by the Government of His Majesty of Negara Brunei Darussalam is required.
Candidates who have equivalent qualifications through education and/or experience may be considered for assignment to this position.

Professional Requirements

A minimum of eight (8) to ten (10) years of experience in related field is required,
At least five (5) to eight (8) years in a supervisory or management role is highly preferred.
Proven ability to coordinate across multiple service functions and departments in line with wider objectives and ensuring delivery against set milestones.
Relevant certification such as Certified Strategic Planner (CSP) or the Certified Manager of Strategy (CMS) offered by the Association for Strategic Planning (ASP) is highly desirable.
Certification in data analytics or business intelligence platforms such as Microsoft Certified: Data Analyst (Power BI) is highly desirable
Other professional certification is an added advantage.

Specialised Skills/Knowledge/Attribute Requirement

Demonstrated understanding of hospital operations, clinical service lines, patient care pathways, and the interdependencies between clinical, operational, and financial functions within a healthcare environment.
Strong understanding of healthcare financial drivers related to medical tourism, including service costing, international pricing strategies, revenue modelling, ROI, break-even analysis, and financial feasibility of cross-border healthcare services.
Proven capability in developing and executing short-, medium-, and long-term healthcare service development strategies aligned with organizational priorities, patient demand, and sustainability objectives.
Proficiency in analyzing healthcare utilization data, service capacity, patient flow, and operational readiness to support medical tourism initiatives without compromising care delivery for local patients.
Sound understanding of healthcare governance frameworks, regulatory requirements, ethical considerations, and internal approval processes relevant to service development and commercial partnerships.
Ability to prepare clear, structured business proposals, feasibility papers, and performance reports for Senior Management and Board-level review.
Strong analytical mindset with the ability to assess complex healthcare challenges, evaluate alternative solutions, and recommend data-driven and financially sound strategies.
Ability to operate effectively in a dynamic healthcare environment, adapting strategies in response to changing clinical needs, policy requirements, and financial conditions.

Closing Date

22nd January 2026