Seeking University & BD Manager to join our team to lead our relationships and revenue growth to the next level
The massive changes in the international education industry brought on by COVID-19 provides huge opportunities for new models and digital solutions to emerge.
We are China Admissions, an investor backed online platform for international students to apply to Chinese Universities and study online programs. We provide universities online marketing services and online events to help them grow internationally and do international marketing. We partner with 150 top Chinese universities, and have over 150,000 registered students.
We are growing fast and looking for a university relationship manager to join our team to lead our growth in relationships and revenue through this exciting stage as we reach the next level.
Your Objectives
In the first 6 months you will have the following objectives.
1> Build rock solid relationships with partners ready for growth
You will be leading the growth of our relationships with universities. Relationships are everything in business and thats especially true in China. In order to be able to serve our partners we need to understand them deeply.
You’ll be doing a crash course in the market by talking to our team and customers – getting in front our students and universities, setting up interviews. You’ll have the travel and expenses covered so you can meet and really get to know our partners. What makes them tick, how can we serve them better, and sharing the top 10 findings with our product, operations, and recruitment teams and using these findings and relationships for our growth plan.
2> Develop 20 new university partners by contacting 300 universities per month and reaching $100,000 USD in revenue within 3 months
Armed with the relationships and partner understanding, the next step is to contact 300 universities, giving proposals with our services or upgrading them to suit their needs better. You will be tasked with renewing existing relationships and contacting new universities to introduce our platform and marketing options.
3> Growing Our Relationships with Global Recruitment Partners from 200 to 500
You will be tasked with growing our relationships with recruitment companies around the world by reaching out to them, introducing our platform, and signing them up. We have developed an automated system for this. You will be managing this system and lead the onboarding with global partners.
Requirements
The most important skill for this role is to be able to understand people, communicate well, develop relationships and drive business sales.
We need someone with a native level of Chinese and English. international mindset is a must. We expect you’ll have a strong track record of sales and BD growth and have strong relationship skills.
As we are a startup it is important you can think in a “Full Stack” way, and are able to think about the work from multiple angles and can have a wide range of skills (or be looking to learn related skills) such as digital marketing, international recruitment etc.,. It also helps to drive improvements in other areas of our business.
Being tech savvy, marketing experience, entrepreneurial interest or experience is an advantage. We highly value the ability to learn, being open minded, caring about others, and service, and a get stuff done attitude.
It is important that you have high standards, good attention to detail and can help to push each other and the team to improve and be better.
We prefer someone who is based in Beijing but due to the current travel restrictions other locations may be considered.
Working Environment
We are a multinational team based in Beijing but also remotely. In our team we have some of the most talented people in the industry who are dedicated, ambitious, have high standards, and are great fun to work with and learn from. Together we are continually pushing and helping each other to grow.
Our management system is using OKR’s where we all have our own monthly targets (like those 3 above) that align together and we help support each other to reach those targets.
The salary is competitive, with full social insurance. You’ll be surrounded by the best people in the industry – a smart and fun team to work with and learn from. We have a results oriented culture with flexible schedule with national and international travel opportunities.
The next step
Sound interesting to you? We’d love to hear from you
Shoot us an email at careers@china-admissions.com with your CV and we’ll set up a time for a chat
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