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Sales Associate Academic Partnerships
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Not provided by the employer
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Experience Required:
5years
Experience Required:
Posted:
18 September 2026 (5 days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
16 December 2026
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Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
- Identify and develop new partnership opportunities with universities colleges and educational institutions.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with university management placement/career service teams faculty student affairs departments and other institutional stakeholders.
- Conduct meetings presentations and discussions with universities to understand their requirements and present relevant training solutions.
- Develop and execute strategies to establish long-term academic and institutional partnerships.
- Promote the companys professional training certification and career-focused programs through university partnerships.
- Explore opportunities for student training programs workshops career development initiatives certification programs internships and other institutional collaborations.
- Manage the complete partnership cycle including prospecting outreach meetings negotiations follow-ups closure and relationship management.
- Work closely with internal teams to ensure smooth execution of programs and commitments made to partner institutions.
- Identify opportunities to generate student enrollments and revenue through university partnerships.
- Maintain regular follow-ups with existing partner institutions and identify opportunities to expand the relationship.
- Maintain accurate records of partnerships leads meetings follow-ups and conversions in the CRM.
- Achieve assigned partnership lead-generation and revenue targets.
- Attend university events career fairs education exhibitions networking events and other relevant activities to develop new business opportunities.
- Monitor market trends and identify potential universities and institutions for strategic collaboration.
Requirements
- Minimum 24 years of experience in business development institutional sales university partnerships academic partnerships or a related field.
- Experience working with universities colleges educational institutions or student-focused organizations is highly preferred.
- Candidates from education training EdTech higher education professional certification or similar industries are preferred.
- Proven experience in B2B/institutional sales and partnership development.
- Strong ability to identify decision-makers initiate conversations conduct meetings and convert prospects into partnerships.
- Excellent communication presentation negotiation and relationship-building skills.
- Comfortable interacting with senior university and institutional stakeholders.
- Strong sales orientation with the ability to work towards and achieve business development and revenue targets.
- Good knowledge of MS Office and CRM systems.
- Bachelors degree in Business Administration Marketing Education or a related field is preferred.
Required Skills:
Minimum 5 years of proven experience in Business Development or Corporate Training Sales.
