Senior Business Developer (VP) North America - Higher Education

Do you have multiple years of work experience within the higher education industry?

You want to help a business grow and are you looking for a new challenge? This is your opportunity to utilise your business development skills and expand the network that you have developed throughout your career.

We are looking for an Senior Business Developer to strengthen our North America team. Studyportals' mission is to bring transparency to the wealth of study opportunities in the world’s higher education market. We aim to empower the world to choose education.

Our websites receive over 50 million unique users/year, which makes us the most popular study choice platform worldwide. We currently partnering with over 3,750 participating universities in 114 countries worldwide and our team encompasses +200 people with 45 different nationalities.

What you will be doing:

• Connecting with top universities to help them diversify and grow their international student body, as well as providing them challenging insights on international student mobility and ways to grow quality and retention of their international cohort.
• Multi-level business development with a focus on connecting and building trust with the board of top institutions resulting in multi-year partnerships
• Supporting the North America team achieving their goal as well as manage and grow your own individual territory
• Advising and liaising with existing and new clients – build and nurture existing partnerships and ensuring our clients are happy with their activity
• Plan and attend client meetings
• Involvement in the optimization of the complete commercial cycle: from lead generation, negotiation sales, campaign implementation to reporting and evaluation

Reporting directly to the Business Unit Director the strategy and approach of growth targets within the North American region.

Requirements

• At least 5-10 years of proven commercial track record within the higher education industry, hungry to quickly capture the market (higher education experience is required)
• A strong network to key decision makers (c-level) within the higher education industry in North America.
• Optimistic and self-disciplined high achiever with a sense of urgency and good work organization.
• Client and market share orientation; committed to create client value on the long term.
• Assertive, and optimistic. Energetic and persistent, with an entrepreneurial attitude you drive for results and are 110% committed to success.
• Open team player – independent yet supportive – thriving in an entrepreneurial atmosphere.
• Able to get in the minds of prospective international students. Having experienced an international study period is desired.
• Eagerness to learn and grow alongside a young and dynamic company, with the ambition to quickly grow in role and responsibilities.
• Our mission and corporate values should match yours

Benefits

• The opportunity to be a key driver of a fast growing company that will establish sustainable added value in North America’s and the world’s Higher Education market

• An annual personal development budget, because personal growth is KEY
• A fulltime position, a competitive salary including an excellent bonus scheme

• Ambitious, informal, entrepreneurial and flexible atmosphere where self-initiative is highly appreciated. Apart from your contribution to the company, your personal development has high priority

• A company environment that is serious about having fun with everything we do

• The opportunity to make our world a little better

Studyportals will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.

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