Head - Industry Institute Collaboration

Meenakshi Sundararajan Group of Institutions; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Meenakshi Sundararajan Group of Institutions in Chennai is seeking a senior leader to head the Centre for Industry & Institute Collaboration. You will build an industry-institute ecosystem from the ground up, creating partnerships with leading organisations and aligning classrooms with live industry projects.

You will inspire students, co-create Centres of Excellence, and open pathways to internships while ensuring the institute remains forward-looking.

Qualifications

• Significant senior leadership experience in industry.
• Experience building partnerships between industry and academia.

Responsibilities

• Build an industry-institute ecosystem from the ground up.
• Create partnerships with leading organisations and bring industry into classrooms and laboratories.
• Co-create Centres of Excellence and industry-led learning programmes.
• Open pathways to internships and live projects for students.
• Translate industry relationships into exceptional career opportunities for graduates.

Job description

You have built a career. Now build something that outlives it.

Head - Centre for Industry & Institute Collaboration

Meenakshi Sundararajan Group of Institutions | Chennai

We are looking for a senior industry leader who has built, led and achieved - and who still has the ambition to build something consequential.

Someone who has spent years solving real business problems, building teams, creating businesses, navigating complexity and developing relationships across industry.

And now wants to put all of that experience to work where it can shape thousands of young lives.

This is not a placement role.

And it is not a consulting role.

It is a building role.

You will have the mandate to create an industry-institute ecosystem from the ground up.

You will build relationships with leading organisations, bring industry into our classrooms and laboratories, co-create Centres of Excellence, create industry-led learning and capability programmes, open pathways to internships and live projects, and build relationships that translate into exceptional career opportunities for our students.

But the ambition is bigger than placements.

We want industry to eventually say:

"We don't just recruit from this institution. We help build it."

Who are we looking for?

Perhaps you have already had the corporate titles.

CEO. Business Head. CXO. Entrepreneur. Functional Leader.

Perhaps you have built something you are proud of.

We are not looking for someone ready to retire into advisory work.

We are looking for someone who is:

Accomplished enough to have credibility.

Connected enough to open doors.

Curious enough to keep learning.

Restless enough to keep building.

Purpose-driven enough to want their next chapter to matter.

Someone who can sit across the table from a CEO and create a partnership - and then walk into a classroom and inspire a student.

Someone who doesn't need a playbook because they have spent their career writing them.

Why this role?

Because giving back doesn't have to mean slowing down.

Your next chapter could be about creating institutions, opening doors, developing talent and influencing the future of an entire generation.

You have already built a great deal.

Now build something that outlives you.

If that sounds like the challenge you have been waiting for, we would like to hear from you.

Chennai

Role: Head - Centre for Industry & Institute Collaboration

Experience: Significant senior leadership experience in industry

Website: https://msec.edu.in