Manager - Career Advancement Services

Job Purpose

To build and strengthen relationships with required companies resulting into smooth landing of PGP students in those companies. Responsible for meeting set targets with respect to number of companies visiting campus and making offers (such that the planned number of recruitments happen in his/her territory).

JobOutline

The Business Development division of CAS is responsible for building & establishing strong relationship with potential companies and maintaining the relationship with existing companies for placement of the Post Graduation Program students.

While executing the job the incumbent if responsible for identifying and approaching new companies/ recruiters for placement purpose. S/he is expected to seek and conduct meetings with the decision makers across these companies and show case the talent pool of the school along with the diversity of the students that the institute chooses and grooms over the year. The incumbent is expected to follow up with them and build everlasting relationships. S/he is also expected to periodically engage with existing companies by keeping them informed about the latest placement related developments at ISB and taking their valuable inputs. S/he makes sure to also invite these companies for various knowledge sharing forums being organized by the school from time to time. The incumbent is expected to get new referrals and ideas from the existing relationships for getting more placement options for the students.

The incumbent on one hand is responsible for interfacing with the companies to understand their talent requirements and on the other interacts with the students to figure out their aspirations and target companies to approach the market accordingly.

In order to ensure effective execution of the job the incumbent makes sure that companies targeted for placement are in sync with School’s requirement and processes followed are adhered to set standards or quality guidelines.

Job Specification

Knowledge / Education

MBA

Specific Skills

MS Office, Result oriented, Understanding of job market, Awareness of Corporate sales,

Interpersonal skills, Team work, Cross functional collaboration, Coordination, Presentation skills, Business understanding, Negotiation Skills, Influencing skills

Desirable Experience

4 to 7 years

Job Interface/Relationships:

Internal

• Students
• Process team of CAS
• HR , Finance, ASA, AFA, Development, Communication

External

• Recruiters
• Vendors

Key Responsibilities and % Time Spent

To identify, evaluate, convince, and bring in new companies for recruiting students from School

30%

To maintain strong relationships with the existing companies in the list - 30%

To understand needs of students and approach quality companies accordingly - 10%

To guide executives in innovative ways of work on new leads generation - 10%

To handle internal processes such as generating reports, maintaining database, responding to internal queries, contributing to internal recruitment on an ongoing basis

10%

To coordinate with external and internal partners as and when required - 10%

Total Time Spent on All Responsibilities - 100%