Associate Consultant / Partner Growth Supervisors

Gus Education (India) Llp; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Gus Education (India) Llp is seeking a Partner Relationship Manager to drive sustainable partner growth by managing relationships, monitoring performance, and coordinating with internal teams to deliver growth objectives.

You will act as a primary contact for assigned partners, ensuring timely follow-up, effective communication, and resolution of issues to convert opportunities into measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of experience in partner management, business development, account management, or sales.
• Experience managing institutional, education, recruitment or channel partners desirable.
• Experience using KPIs, targets and partner performance metrics.
• Experience in international education or student recruitment is an advantage.
• Experience using CRM systems and data-driven reporting is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day relationships with assigned partners and key stakeholders.
• Maintain regular communication and follow up on agreed actions and opportunities.
• Identify opportunities to increase partner volumes and growth.
• Monitor partner performance against KPIs and business plans.
• Coordinate with Admissions, Marketing, Operations, Compliance and other teams to support partner requirements.
• Prepare partner performance and growth reports.
• Support partner meetings and reviews and share best practices across the team.

Skills

Relationship-building

Commercial awareness

Communication

Analytical thinking

Multi-tasking

Follow-up

CRM proficiency

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

CRM systems

Job description

Job Purpose

To drive sustainable partner growth by managing partner relationships, monitoring performance, identifying opportunities and coordinating with internal teams to deliver agreed growth objectives.

The role will act as a key point of contact for assigned partners, ensuring timely follow-up, effective communication, issue resolution and conversion of identified opportunities into measurable business outcomes.

Partner Relationship Management

• Manage day-to-day relationships with assigned partners and key stakeholders.
• Maintain regular communication and follow up on agreed actions and opportunities.
• Understand partner needs, challenges and growth priorities.
• Build strong, professional and long-term partner relationships.

Partner Growth & Business Development

• Identify opportunities to increase partner volumes, engagement and business performance.
• Support development and execution of partner growth plans.
• Track opportunities from identification through to closure.
• Work with internal teams to convert partner opportunities into measurable outcomes

Partner Performance Management

• Monitor partner performance against agreed KPIs, targets and business plans.
• Analyse performance trends and identify gaps, risks and opportunities.
• Conduct regular partner performance reviews and recommend improvement actions.
• Track agreed actions and ensure timely closure

Stakeholder & Operational Coordination

• Coordinate with Admissions, Marketing, Operations, Compliance and other relevant teams to support partner requirements.
• Ensure partner queries and operational issues are resolved within agreed timelines.
• Facilitate communication between partners and internal stakeholders.
• Escalate critical issues and risks to the appropriate management level

Reporting & Insights

• Maintain accurate partner and opportunity data in relevant systems.
• Prepare regular partner performance and growth reports.
• Provide insights on partner trends, opportunities, risks and performance.
• Support management with data-driven recommendations.

Partner Engagement & Continuous Improvement

• Support partner meetings, business reviews, engagement activities and initiatives.
• Gather partner feedback and identify opportunities to improve the partner experience.
• Identify process gaps affecting partner performance and recommend improvements.
• Share best practices and successful partner strategies across the team

Skills

• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.
• Commercial awareness with a focus on growth and business outcomes.
• Strong communication, negotiation and presentation skills.
• Good analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple partners, priorities and deadlines.
• Strong follow-up, ownership and accountability.
• Proficiency in CRM, reporting and productivity tools.
• Ability to work collaboratively across multiple functions

Relevant Experience

• 3 to 5 years of experience in partner management, business development, account management, sales or a similar role Experience managing institutional, education, recruitment or channel partners is desirable.
• Experience working with KPIs, targets and partner performance metrics.
• Experience in international education or student recruitment would be an advantage.
• Experience using CRM systems and data-driven reporting is desirable