Strategic Partnerships Manager (India)
Job Description
What you’ll do
- Map and prioritize the partner landscape; run outreach, diligence, and structured pilots.
- Negotiate clear, performance-based agreements with student outcomes at the center.
- Co-design partner funnels: workshops, webinars, referral flows, tracking, and reporting.
- Enable partners with playbooks, training, creative toolkits, and quarterly business reviews.
- Maintain a disciplined pipeline and forecast; deliver accurate volume and revenue projections.
- Safeguard brand standards and compliance; align closely with Marketing, Ops, Legal, and Finance.
- Monitor partner health: contribution to qualified leads/enrollments, retention, and NPS.
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years in partnerships/channel sales/BD in education or adjacent sectors; deep India market knowledge.
- Strong contracting and stakeholder management; comfortable with targets and accountability.
- Data-literate: attribution, cohort analysis, funnel diagnostics.
- Executive-level communication; credible with senior leaders and community influencers alike.
About ApplyAZ
ApplyAZ is an independent study-in-Italy consultancy. We work only with Italy’s public universities and take no commissions from universities, so our advice follows the student. Our team guides students from countries like India from the first eligibility check to their first week in Italy: programme shortlists, applications, DSU scholarships, the student visa and arrival.
Working at ApplyAZ
Our team works from offices in Milan and India. Each stage of a student’s journey has a named person on the team, from the first eligibility check to the first week in Italy, so every file has an owner and every family knows who to ask. Our values are a student-first mindset, a team-driven culture, quality without compromise, ownership and initiative, and a habit of building to improve. We work in one dashboard shared with students and families, where every task, upload, deadline and decision is visible live. Read our founder’s story to see why ApplyAZ exists.
Other open roles
If another role suits you better, you can apply for it in the same way.
- Marketing Coordinator: own performance and lifecycle marketing for the India market, turning curiosity into applications and starts. Hybrid, full-time.
- Student Success Specialist (Italy): guide our students as they land in Italy, help them settle with confidence and build a real community. Hybrid, full-time.
See every open position on our careers page.
How to apply
Apply through the application form on this page. Send your CV and a short note on why this role fits you, the languages you speak and where you are based.
