Job Position: Director (Industry Relationshipand Student Placement)

IU/Dept: Deshpande Skilling

Education: Any Graduation

Experience: 10 to 15 years of working experience in large companies in India and connected to the HR community.Experience in B2B sales and HR will be most relevant.

Level/Grade: L6

Tentative date 0f joining : At the earliest

Location : Hubballi

Key responsibilities & accountabilities :

• Provide strategic leadership to Deshpande Skilling’s aggressive plans to scale its impact numbers from current levels to 50 K per year.
• Develop strong strategic relationship with Industry captains, develop deep understanding of industry requirements and provide specific inputs to internal teams on its skilling service product improvement and development.

• Develop relationships with employer companies and add to the list of employer partners of Deshpande Skilling and make Deshpande Skilling a preferred hiringpartner for 25 of the top 100 employers of degree college pass outs in the country.
• Lead the placement assistance team of Deshpande Skilling to become a strong fulfillment team, meeting the expectations of employer partners and nurturing and growing existing relationships.

Key Competency and skills:

• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Should be comfortable to engage in strategic partnership discussions with the CXO’s of employer companies to connect the purpose and services of Deshpande Skilling to the requirements of potential partners.

• The role will be based out of Bangalore and will require frequent travelling to the big employment centres of Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune etc.
• The role will also require travelingto Hubli and the Impact divisions of Deshpande Skilling in North Karnataka and Telangana.