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#Hiring Alert 📢 We are Hiring | Business Development Manager / Sr. Manager – Academic Partnerships 📍 Locations: Chennai | Bengaluru | Hyderabad 💰 Compensation: Up to ₹15 LPA 🏢 Industry: Higher Education | EdTech | Academic Training Solutions About the Role Samatrix is looking for a dynamic, target-driven Business Development professional to build strategic partnerships with universities, colleges and B-schools. The ideal candidate will have strong institutional sales experience, excellent stakeholder management skills, and the ability to drive the integration of industry-relevant training and certification programmes into academic curricula. 🔹 Key Responsibilities Build and manage partnerships with universities, colleges, engineering institutions and B-schools. Engage with senior academic leaders, including Vice Chancellors, Registrars, Directors, Deans and Heads of Departments. Pitch industry-aligned programmes and certifications in AI, Generative AI, Data Science, AIML, Business Analytics and other emerging domains. Drive the complete sales cycle, from lead generation and institutional meetings to proposal submission, commercial negotiations and partnership closure. Identify opportunities to embed industry-relevant programmes into university curricula. Develop a strong institutional sales pipeline and achieve business development targets. Coordinate with internal academic and delivery teams to execute partnerships successfully. Travel across assigned territories for institutional meetings and business development activities. 🔹 Candidate Profile Experience in institutional sales, university partnerships, academic business development or B2B sales. Strong understanding of the higher education ecosystem. Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation and relationship-building skills. Ability to engage with senior institutional decision-makers and close strategic partnerships. Willingness to travel extensively across assigned territories. ⭐ Preferred Experience Candidates with experience in selling training programmes, certification courses, executive education or professional development solutions to universities and B-schools will be preferred. Experience in pitching to academic leadership and getting industry-relevant programmes integrated into university curricula will be a strong advantage. 📩 Interested candidates can share their profiles at: head.academic.partnerships@samatrix.io Samatrix Consulting Private Limited || Vishal Jain || sunny pathak Know someone who would be a great fit? Tag them or share this opportunity! #Hiring #BusinessDevelopment #AcademicPartnerships #HigherEducation #InstitutionalSales #EdTech #UniversityPartnerships #ChennaiJobs #BengaluruJobs #HyderabadJobs