Regional Manager – Middle East

Careers at UAE; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Coventry University Group is seeking a Regional Manager for the Middle East to develop and implement a comprehensive regional recruitment strategy, collaborating with CURA teams to drive ambitious growth through direct recruitment, agent and sponsor management, and school networks.

The role requires leading a sales team, delivering against targets in a premium education product, and building stakeholder relationships across CURA and Coventry's global campuses, with a focus on ROI and market

Job description

Regional Manager – Middle East

Our Mission

Coventry University Group is a global education group with a mission of Creating Better Futures. We are driven by our passionate belief in the transformational power of education and research to enable and empower our students, colleagues and partners and to improve the world around them. Our people are key to our success and each role contributes to the Group’s ongoing progress in communities around the world.

CURecruitment and Admissions Limited (part of the Coventry University Group) is building a new approach to student recruitment to achieve stretching student recruitment targets, while establishing strategies that position Coventry University Group as a dominant local, national and international recruiter.

The Role

This role will be based in the Gulf Region.

Coventry University Recruitment & Admissions (CURA) lives and breathes a passion for finding, enrolling and assisting students to earn a transformational Coventry University degree at one of our UK campuses. Our reputation for success, innovation and customer focus has significantly grown our student numbers over recent years. We’re now expanding the team to build on this success and to lead the charge as the study abroad market evolves at pace. A competitive base salary, bonus and benefits package available.

As a Regional Manager for the Middle East, you will be tasked with developing and implementing a comprehensive regional recruitment strategy. This will involve collaborating across recruitment, conversion, and admissions teams within CURA to drive ambitious growth strategies, including direct interventions with a focus on agent management and partnership development.

Our Successful Candidate

This Regional Manager role offers the exciting opportunity to shape and grow Coventry University Group’s recruitment efforts in a dynamic, competitive market.
We are looking for a passionate, results-driven candidate who can develop and execute a clear strategy, collate market intelligence, lead a sales team, ensure a return on investment, and inspire a wide range of stakeholders in pursuit of ambitious performance goals.

Can you make your own weather and navigate through unprecedented market volatility? If you can define your region’s competitive advantage and execute a plan that fully exploits it, we’d love to hear from you.

Do you have extensive experience of delivering against challenging sales targets in a complex, premium product range, ideally within an international student recruitment context?

As a Regional Manager, you will lead the growth and diversification of your region through multiple recruitment channels, including direct recruitment, agent and sponsor management, schools, FE, and HE networks. You will be responsible for increasing demand while maximizing conversion rates from leads to enrolment across Coventry University Group.

Your role will involve advising prospective students, managing stakeholder relationships, and ensuring effective performance across all recruitment channels.

Our Culture

As a global Education Group, equality, diversity, and inclusion are embedded within the fabric of our organisation and are a key focus of our core values. We harness the power and potential of the diverse cultures, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences of our students, colleagues, and partners to create opportunities for all.

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We look forward to hearing from you!