Total 5 Director/C-Level job vacancies in D12 Balestier, Serangoon, Toa Payoh

We are a Singapore based private education institution with 4 years Edutrust. Due to business expansion, we urgently need a Business Development Director. He/she is responsible for leading a company's business development efforts to increase revenue and profits. Their duties include:

• Developing strategies: Creating and implementing business development strategies and activities
• Identifying opportunities: Finding new business opportunities, markets, and trends
• Building relationships: Developing and maintaining relationships with customers, suppliers, distributors, and partners
• Leading negotiations: Negotiating favorable terms with partners and clients
• Driving growth: Leading sales, marketing, and customer service teams to drive growth
• Setting objectives: Helping to shape the company's long-term objectives
• Recommending new products and services: Identifying and recommending new products and services
• Writing proposals: Writing proposals and plans
• Tracking performance: Evaluating existing partnerships and sales efforts
• Communicating: Communicating business development strategies with internal stakeholders

Requirements:

• Should have a bachelor's degree
• They should also have excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills, and a strong understanding of market trends
• Have strong ties in China to develop China and South East Asia market
• Proficient in Chinese is preferred
• Require flexible working hours
• Require to travel between Singapore and China
• Strong education network in China
• To recruit minimum KPI of 200 students per year

• Determine the management plans, policies and business objectives related to the management of the Company and responsible for the implementation and achievement of results.
• Establish company goals and objectives, both short-term and long-term.
• Provide leadership, source and execute investment opportunities to increase investment portfolio.
• Lead due diligence, direct transaction team and coordinate transaction execution and closing.
• Monitoring and assuring data integrity and performance return accuracy for clients and partners.
• Establish and improve the Company's organizational and work system. Responsible for creating an efficient organizational team and building good communication channels.
• Coordinate the sales, market development, research and development as well as product operations in the Company.
• Coordinate the relevant internal/external work relationships, maintain and enhance the Company's brand image and reputation.
• Coach, develop and mentor the team in their career development.
• Maintain good working relationships with clients.
• Ensure that the company continues to make profits and grow investors’ wealth.

Requirements:

• Master Degree and above in Business Management or Engineering.
• At least 5 to 8 years’ experience in Management roles.
• Have good knowledge on designing instrument system and program software.
• High level of business awareness and acumen.
• Understanding the intricacies of financial management and management.
• Excellent Leadership, communication, organisational, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong crisis management and conflict mediation skills.
• Bilingual with proficiency in English and Mandarin to liaise with clients.

STRATEGY

• Formulate strategic vision, mission and strategy of the business unit, in alignment with GSL strategy and DSC Global/DSC APAC strategy
• Participate in strategic planning and develop short to long-term (1-5 years) plans for Business growth and protecting our three bottomlines
• Organization assessment towards creating x-functional synergies and managing resources to ensure future organizational readiness
• Establish Country Business Reviews process in partnership with Country Champions community to review Country business performance and Strategic agenda

ANALYTICS & BUSINESS INSIGHTS

i) Insights Generation

• Coordinate implementation of data analysis & analytics plans to analyze business intelligence data from different sources, to inform business decisions, support process reviews and drive actionable insights
• Assist in implementing policies and procedures regarding collating and analysing data, develop new data analysis processes and assess analytics on an ongoing basis

ii) Value Identification & Scaling

• Develop Data Analytics as a product offering to SL customer as part of renewal or RFQ or ongoing basis so as to provide DHL with a differentiating factor / competitive advantage
• Identifying and Scaling of the established use cases to all relevant SL accounts (Scaling across network)

iii) Continous Improvement & Commercialization

• Drive internal Continous improvement initiatives by leveraging data from multiple sources (e.g. WMS, TMS, Kronos)
• Value capturing the benefits created/realized with Customers and Internal operations; and Commercializing the value generated with Customers (and contributing to CI Targets in Customer Contracts)

NETWORK PERFORMANCE & IMPROVEMENT

• Develop globally aligned strategy for MRP (Management Review Process) in APAC
• Deploy best-in-class Performance visibility dashboard via means of single data source and Power BI tool
• Establish framework for process productivity assessment and proactively manage improvement plans
• Drive continuous improvement activities for both Service Performance and Shipment Visibility based on QMS prinicples of Root Cause Identification & Resolution
• Present and implement operational improvement projects to increase First Time Right performance across the APAC network
• Develop operations Heat Map review to drive operations improvement and service excellence
• Establish best practice sharing strategy cross country, accounts and global to drive improve customer experience

CHANGE MANAGEMENT

• Lead by example with a Can Do Mindset to drive change management through the SL network
• Support Countries and sites with change management knowledge and activities
• Drive change management through the APAC network, implementing a new way or performance reporting using the SL BI tool & Digital customer Experience tool (MySC)
• Own the SL BI tool/platform roll out towards our country operations in APAC
• Drive the SL BI tool/platformroadmap, engaging with the global super user community and proving feedback to all new customer agreements to ensure we sell our standard services

COMMUNICATIONS

• Create awareness of the SL standard and product across the network though Snack & Learn, Webinar
• Design, drive and publish the SL Newsletter

Job Overview:

The Business Development Director will be responsible for driving growth, expanding market presence, and establishing strategic partnerships in the education sector. This role requires a seasoned professional with over 10 years of experience, including a minimum of 5 years in a leadership capacity. The individual will lead efforts to identify new opportunities, build relationships with key stakeholders, and manage the overall business development strategy, with a focus on expanding educational programs and services.

Key Responsibilities:
-Develop and implement a comprehensive business development strategy to grow the company’s presence in the education industry.
-Identify and pursue new business opportunities, including potential partnerships with schools, educational institutions, and other key players in the sector.
-Build and maintain relationships with clients, partners, and industry stakeholders in education.
-Lead the negotiation and closing of major business deals and contracts related to education services and programs.
-Collaborate with the marketing and sales teams to create go-to-market strategies for new educational products and services.
-Analyze market trends and competitors in the education space to adapt business strategies accordingly.
-Represent the company at education-related conferences and events to build networks and increase visibility.
-Monitor and report on the success of business development activities, adjusting strategies as needed.


Requirements:
-Bachelor’s degree in Business, Education, Marketing, or a related field (Master’s preferred).
-Minimum of 10 years of professional experience, with at least 5 years in a leadership role within business development or education management.
-Proven track record of successful business development and revenue growth in the education sector.
-Strong leadership, communication, and negotiation skills.
-Ability to think strategically and make data-driven decisions.
-Strong network within the education industry and ability to build new connections quickly.
-Experience managing a team and working cross-functionally with other departments.
-Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

· Lead day-to-day operations

· Develop budgets and financial plans to achieve profitability goals

· Holds overall responsibility for the operations department including the administration functions of the department to ensure the operations activities run smoothly and efficiently

· Responsible for the management and development of the operations team, including performance management, training compensation and resourcing matters

· Collaborate with marketing teams to promote company’s services and products

· Translates company's strategic plans into operational plans

· Defines KPI to monitor operational success

· Key interface with clients for the operations team and ensures clients requirements are met in a timely manner

· Develops and manages budget planning to minimise operations expenditure

· Stays up to date to technological changes within the industry

· Develops leadership training programs to increase operational effectiveness

· Develops operations planning and projects schedules for the operations team daily routing to ensure quality service delivery of clients projects

· Works closely with other departments

· Ensure team members to have clear defined roles, responsibilities, goals and objectives that will deliver measurable results to the company

· Assists top management in setting goals