Deputy General Manager - Admissions - Business School

Here is an opportunity for a fantastic career filled with learning and growth in a vibrant, intellectually challenging environment!

Our client is a top-ranked private business school that is led by prominent academic faculty and steered by an outstanding advisory council. It aims to provide quality management education at an affordable cost to increase the talent pool of Indian professionals who can think with a global mindset while retaining their Indian roots. It offers full-time management programs, part-time programs for executives and working professionals and domain focused programs in Business Analytics. It also provides multiple international student and faculty collaborations to enhance learning. Its alumni number over 5,000 and are working with world renowned organizations across 30 countries.

As the DGM Admissions,we are looking for a strategic thinker who will be responsible for managing the overall operations of the admissions of the B-School.

Your responsibilities include:

- Leading the admissions team and ensuring a high performance results driven culture

- Managing the end-to-end admissions process for the prestigious full time MBA programs including shortlisting/filtering of thousands of applications, managing the interview processes across the country and declaration of results

- Managing executive/ part-time MBA admissions from leads to final conversions including enquiry handling, counselling and customer support activities

- Developing content for the website and periodic email communication to applicants

- Leveraging social media for engaging internal and external stakeholders

- Planning, forecasting and analyzing market demand and student admission trends

- Coordinating with marketing team to fine tune marketing plans related to admissions and helping execute them

- Planning and execution of offline events such as conferences, seminars or road shows

- Expanding market outreach and broadly diversifying both applicant pool and accessions, and ensuring steady enrollment goals, while maintaining outstanding academic standards

- Developing MIS / Admissions reports for decision making

Candidate Profile:

- Bachelor's degree from a reputed school/university; Masters degree/ MBA would be an added advantage

- Demonstrable experience of 7+ years in sales/handling teams/familiarity in developing collaterals/communication content

- Demonstrated ability to meet targets with a keen eye on planning and execution

- Should possess strong analytical skills

- Should have good understanding of end to end Digital Marketing processes

- Should have excellent knowledge and experience of working on Microsoft excel

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Strong interpersonal skills, enthusiasm and positive attitude

- Should be self-driven and well organized