Manager - Academic Partnerships

• Identify and establish strategic partnerships with universities, colleges, and educational institutions across relevant markets.
  

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with university leadership, academic departments, faculty members, and key decision-makers.
  

• Initiate, negotiate, and coordinate MoUs and partnership agreements to support course distribution, programme delivery, and other academic collaborations.
  

• Explore opportunities to introduce Blue Ocean Corporation's training programmes, professional certifications, and industry-relevant courses through university networks.
  

• Develop partnership proposals, collaboration models, and academic distribution strategies aligned with business objectives.
  

• Coordinate with internal academic, sales, marketing, legal, and operations teams to finalise and implement partnership agreements.
  

• Identify opportunities for joint certification programmes, executive education, professional development courses, workshops, and other collaborative initiatives.
  

• Manage the end-to-end partnership lifecycle, from prospect identification and negotiations to agreement execution, implementation, and relationship management.
  

• Monitor partnership performance, course enrolments, revenue opportunities, and other agreed KPIs.
  

• Conduct regular meetings with partner institutions to review progress, identify new opportunities, and strengthen long-term collaboration.
  

• Research the higher education landscape, market trends, and potential institutional partners to support business expansion.
  

• Maintain an updated database of academic partners, MoUs, partnership activities, and performance reports.
  

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Education, Higher Education Management, Marketing, or a related field. A master's degree will be an advantage.
  

• Proven experience in academic partnerships, university relations, institutional business development, or strategic partnership management.
  

• Experience developing collaborations with universities, colleges, or other educational institutions.
  

• Demonstrated ability to negotiate partnership agreements, coordinate MoUs, and develop commercial or academic collaboration models.
  

• Understanding of course distribution, professional certifications, executive education, or corporate training programmes will be an advantage.
  

• Strong networking, negotiation, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
  

• Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities.
  

• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to identify opportunities that support enrolment growth and revenue generation.
  

• Good organisational, project management, and reporting skills.