Head - Industry Relationship and Student Placement

Head - Industry Relationship and Student Placement - Deshpande Skilling Head (Industry Relationship and Student Placement)

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Provide strategic leadership to Deshpande Skilling s aggressive plans to scale its impact numbers from current levels to 20,000 formal sector job placements per year.
• Have a clear understanding of the fresher hiring landscape in terms of sectors, geographies, skills, numbers and trends to guide the demand led skilling program of the organisation.
• Develop strong strategic relationship with Industry captains, develop deep understanding of industry requirements and provide specific inputs to internal teams on its skilling service product improvement and development.
• Develop relationships with employer companies and add to the list of employer partners of Deshpande Skilling and make Deshpande Skilling a preferred hiring partner for 25 of the top 100 employers of degree college fresher pass outs in the country.
• Lead the placement assistance team of Deshpande Skilling to become a strong fulfillment team, meeting the expectations of employer partners and nurturing and growing existing relationships.

Key Competency and Skills:

• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Should be comfortable to engage in strategic partnership discussions with the CXO s of employer companies to connect the purpose and services of Deshpande Skilling to the requirements of potential partners.
• The role will be based out of Bangalore and will require frequent travelling to the big employment centers of Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune etc.
• The role will also require traveling to Hubli and the Impact divisions of Deshpande Skilling in North Karnataka and Telangana.