Assistant Manager – College Partnership

We’re Hiring | Assistant Manager – College Partnership
Fee-lesso™ | Kolkata

Fee-lesso™ is building a next-generation education marketplace that connects students with the right colleges, programmes, scholarships, and Fee-lesso™ Seats.

We are looking for an Assistant Manager – College Partnership to drive the acquisition, onboarding, and relationship management of colleges and educational institutions across India.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute strategies for college and university acquisition.
• Identify, prospect, and establish relationships with colleges, universities, B-schools, and other educational institutions.
• Connect with College Management, Principals, Admission Heads, Marketing Heads, and authorised institutional representatives.
• Present the Fee-lesso™ platform, partnership proposition, commercial model, and student acquisition opportunities.
• Lead negotiations and drive new institutional partnerships from prospecting to closure.
• Manage the complete college onboarding process, ensuring all required institutional information and documents are collected accurately.
• Coordinate collection and verification of programme details, fees, scholarships, hostel facilities, placements, admission requirements, campus information, etc.
• Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with partner institutions.
• Work closely with the Marketing, Admissions, Content, Product, Finance, and Operations teams to ensure successful partner activation.
• Identify opportunities for premium listings, promotional campaigns, student lead generation, and other commercial partnerships.
• Maintain an updated pipeline of prospective and active college partners through CRM/ERP.
• Prepare regular reports on prospects, meetings, negotiations, conversions, onboarding, and revenue opportunities.
• Support and guide College Partnership Executives and contribute to team targets.
• Achieve defined monthly, quarterly, and annual college acquisition and partnership targets.
• Travel as required for institutional meetings, conferences, campus visits, and partnership development.

Candidate Profile

• Graduate/MBA/PGDM preferred.
• 2–5 years of experience in B2B sales, business development, education sales, institutional partnerships, EdTech, or a related sector.
• Prior experience dealing with colleges, universities, B-schools, educational institutions, or education consultants will be strongly preferred.
• Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-management skills.
• Strong commercial understanding with the ability to convert conversations into partnerships.
• Target-oriented, proactive, and capable of working independently.
• Comfortable with field sales, institutional meetings, and travel.
• Good knowledge of MS Excel/Google Sheets, CRM/ERP, email, and professional business communication.

What Will Give You an Edge

Candidates with an existing network of colleges and universities or demonstrated experience in institutional acquisition will be strongly preferred.

This is a high-ownership business development role. The person will be expected to build the college partnership pipeline, negotiate with institutional decision-makers, close partnerships, and ensure successful onboarding—not simply coordinate meetings.

Location

Kolkata | Field Travel as Required

Employment

Full-Time

How to Apply

Send your updated CV to: [email protected]

Please mention “Assistant Manager – College Partnership” in the subject line.

Join Fee-lesso™ and help build the next generation of India's college discovery and admission ecosystem.

Pay: ₹300,000.00 - ₹360,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person