Global Partnerships & Enrolment Lead — Education

GESS; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

GESS in Singapore seeks a Senior Manager for Business Development and Relations to drive enrolment growth across German and IB programmes. You will build relationships with embassies, chambers, and corporates while co-planning events with Admissions and Marketing to deliver qualified demand.

You will represent the school at diplomatic functions, lead structured outreach, and manage partnerships with relocation providers, with a focus on measurable enrolment outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Communications, Marketing, International Relations or Journalism preferred.
• 8+ years in business development, strategic communications, stakeholder engagement or high-value sales, ideally in education or another relationship-led, reputation-driven sector (luxury, consumer or membership brands), with a record of building partner networks, achieving targets and pipelines and managing budgets.
• Measurable growth in enquiries and enrolments sourced from embassy, corporate, chamber and club relationships, across both curricula.
• Preferred-partner agreements in place or demonstrated ability to develop with priority employers and relocation providers, supported by a documented network map and contact programme.
• New business development track record.

Responsibilities

• Lead outbound business development to generate enquiries, enrolments and tuition revenue from priority segments, against targets agreed.
• Run a structured outreach programme to relocation agencies, global mobility leaders and HR decision makers at German Centre-based and other European multinationals, and negotiate corporate partnerships, preferred-school and relocation-package arrangements (subject to school leadership approval).
• Track leads from diplomatic, corporate, chamber and club channels, alongside the Admissions team through an agreed process, and report conversion against enrolment KPIs to the school leadership.
• At times, represent GESS at embassy briefings, national day celebrations, trade delegations and diplomatic functions.
• Build partnerships with Corporates, HR and with relevant chambers and clubs, securing visibility through sponsorships, publications, newsletters and member offers, coordinated with Marketing on brand and budget.
• Co-plan and co-host open houses, executive receptions, newcomer briefings and information evenings together with Admissions and Marketing team. This role brings the audiences and senior hosting; Admissions leads, admissions content and follow-up; Marketing leads, promotion and production.
• Represent GESS at community fairs, welcome events and newcomer briefings run by clubs and relocation providers.
• Work with Marketing and within GESS brand guidelines, to develop bilingual collateral, briefings and presentations tailored to relevant audiences as needed.

Skills

Executive presence

Stakeholder engagement

Relationship building

Cross-cultural communication

Negotiation skills

CRM (HubSpot)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Communications, Marketing, International Relations or Journalism

Tools

HubSpot CRM

Job description

GESS in Singapore seeks a Senior Manager for Business Development and Relations to drive enrolment growth across German and IB programmes. You will build relationships with embassies, chambers, and corporates while co-planning events with Admissions and Marketing to deliver qualified demand.

You will represent the school at diplomatic functions, lead structured outreach, and manage partnerships with relocation providers, with a focus on measurable enrolment outcomes.