Acumen, Part of Sannam S4 Group
Website:
acumen.education
Job details:
Role/Title: Leasing Advisor
Location: Bengaluru/Chennai/Mumbai
About Us
Acumen, established in 2008 under the Sannam S4 Group umbrella, is a premier internationalisation partner for educational institutions worldwide. Originating in India, we have expanded our services across Asia, North America, and beyond, providing comprehensive support to universities and organisations embarking on their global journeys.
Our Mission and Approach
Driven by research and rich data insights, Acumen offers innovative solutions tailored to the unique needs of each partner. Our end-to-end services empower educational institutions to establish and enhance their international presence, ensuring they receive trusted guidance and expertise at every step.
Global Reach and Services
With a strong presence in India, South and Southeast Asia, and North America, Acumen delivers excellence in education consulting, advisory, and implementation. Our services include in-country representation, high school engagement, agent management, enrollment services, and strategic consulting, all designed to help institutions thrive in today's competitive international education landscape.
Our Team and Values
Our diverse team of over 300 professionals, with a 70% female representation, embodies our core values: Collaboration, Agility, Impact, Empowerment, and Integrity. This commitment to diversity and inclusion fosters a dynamic and supportive environment, enabling us to deliver impactful solutions to our partners.
Why Choose Acumen
Our unique understanding of the education sector, combined with a people-first approach and student-focused insights, has made us an invaluable partner for educational institutions globally. We prioritise your needs, offering practitioner-led expertise and end-to-end support without taking commissions or selling services directly to students, ensuring our focus remains solely on enhancing your institution's success.
Partner with Acumen to navigate the complexities of international education and achieve sustainable growth in the global arena.
The Opportunity
We are seeking a dynamic Leasing Advisor to drive occupancy rates and implement growth strategies for SCAPE, a world leader in providing student accommodation solutions across Australia. You will be responsible for achieving occupancy targets by strengthening relationships with education agencies and expanding the agent network across India.
This role requires a proactive individual comfortable working remotely with the Australian team, navigating different time zones, and traveling domestically to engage with students and stakeholders.
Role Summary
The Leasing Advisor will drive student accommodation bookings and occupancy growth for a leading Australian student accommodation provider by building relationships with education agents, prospective students, and key stakeholders across India. The role involves expanding partner networks, increasing brand awareness, executing marketing and business development initiatives, and supporting student conversion activities to achieve occupancy targets while providing market insights and collaborating closely with teams in Australia.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop the marketing strategy for driving occupancy targets for an Australian student accommodation provider.
- Responsible for growing the current relationships with education agencies and strategising the growth of the agent network in India.
- Increase the brand awareness of this Australian accommodation provider by collaborating with all stakeholders including institutional representatives (local and overseas) government agencies, media and affiliated groups.
- Manage the existing network by regularly providing training, product knowledge sessions and updates about the accommodation services.
- Work towards achieving the semester-wise targets, also develop a referral/lead list of potential clients and record status of booking.
- Work on achieving the deliverables, KPIs by attending relevant exhibitions, events and all relatable activities to grow the market share for the accommodation provider.
- Work on converting the prospective students, parents by representing the client and speaking about the accommodation options. The conversion activities should focus on the key indicators and strengths that work best for prospective students.
- Assist the Australia team by supporting the marketing activities, additionally be active on all ATL and BTL channels (i.e., social media and other marketing channels).
- Coordinate and assist in the development of marketing collateral including brochures, flyers, promotional gifts, advertisements etc.
- Provide insights, latest market updates and other intelligence about the Indian market to the Australia team.
- Provide intelligence on the Indian student market and forecast trends. Information to be compiled in the monthly marketing report, to be submitted to the line manager.
- Participate in client led training and actively communicate with the client to keep up to date about your products.
- Plan a domestic travel calendar and undertake travel to attend events
- Participate in overseas familiarization trips to Australia as needed.
- Manage marketing budget including travel budget, event, and promotional and advertising costs.
Information and reporting
- Develop and maintain a key contacts list and share a report with the client as and when necessary.
- Recording information from recruitment events and campaigns.
- Maintain timesheets for projects and submit relevant reports as specified.
Other
- Conduct yourself in a professional manner, observing confidentiality in relation to the client’s data, market intelligence, knowledge and other information.
- Any other duties as directed that commensurate within the scope and classification of the position.
- Knowledge of student recruitment, International Higher Education systems and processes.
- Ensuring that deliverables are met with a focus towards achieving the mutually agreed objectives and targets.
- Coordinate and liaise with internal administrative teams and with vendors for travel, hotel, event bookings etc. as and when required.
Qualifications and Experience
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Relevant postgraduate or professional qualification.
- Experience of working in account management and business development sphere or similar environment for at least 5 years.
- Overseas study or living experience.
- Prior experience working in the education sector (preferably working in the agent market).
- Experience of developing marketing campaigns and using social media as a communication tool.
Skills and Competencies
- Ability to work under pressure; to build relationships and influence across all levels of organisations (internally and externally).
- Knowledge and understanding of the education system and understanding of the range of issues relevant to students contemplating study overseas
- Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Strong planning ability around developing and implementing strategic and tactical plans.
- Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills with high attention to detail.
- IT literacy and adequately conversant with Microsoft Office: Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Knowledge of the International Higher Education system.
- Knowledge of the Indian Higher Education system.
Attributes
- Collaborative working style specially as this role requires to work across geographies
- Good interpersonal skills including networking and relationship management.
- Ability to manage high workloads, meet deadlines, the capacity to resolve work issues and attention to detail.
- Flexibility, adaptability, and the ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
- Willingness and ability to travel outside usual office hours. Flexibility to spend long time periods away from home including some weekends
Benefits
- Gain valuable industry exposure, enhance your professional network, and build skills that can boost future career opportunities
- Be part of a globally recognized organization in international education
Website Address: www.acumen.education
Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acumen-edu/
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