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ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES MUST live in one of the following cities: Nashville, TN, Memphis, TN, Cleveland, OH, or Cincinnati, OH.
JOB SUMMARY:
Post University seeks a highly skilled Strategic Partnerships Manager (SPM) to join our rapidly growing team. This business development position will support our healthcare partners' educational goals through outreach, promotion, and onsite activities. Your exceptional relationship-building, people skills, and ability to uncover strategic opportunities for partner and organizational success will be utilized as you represent the organization at various engagements, including educational fairs, orientations, presentations, regional and national conferences, and other meetings/events.
We seek self-motivated, self-disciplined, and enthusiastic team members to position Post University as the desired destination for working nurses and healthcare professionals to continue their education. To perform this job successfully, you must possess a sales mentality, an altruistic personality, and the ability to uncover, recognize, and seize strategic opportunities. Reporting to the Regional Director of Strategic Partnerships, the SPM will work with a team of focused, passionate individuals who share the same goals while leveraging their knowledge and experience within the higher education industry.
TERRITORY:
Remote, Nashville, TN, Memphis, TN , Clevland, OH or Cincinnati, OH.
The position REQUIRES residence within the designated territory.
The schedule is Monday through Friday with weekends as required.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop and attend events at partner and other healthcare facilities to market programs, generate inquiries and referrals, and deepen/expand relationships that lead to enrollments.
- Procure new partnerships, nurture existing relationships, and maintain a consistent pipeline of prospective partnership opportunities.
- Meet with current and prospective partners to understand their goals and develop student-facing activities to support those goals.
- Meet and exceed monthly events and lead goals within the assigned partnership base.
- Maintain and document activity in CRM, and adhere to all internal requirements for documentation, processes, and regulatory requirements.
- Completes other duties as assigned.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below represent the knowledge, skill, and performance required. Reasonable accommodations may enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- You must reside in a major metropolitan area within the assigned territory.
- BA/BS in a directly relevant discipline - a master's degree is a plus.
- 3-5 years of successful B2B sales/business development experience.
- 2+ years providing educational services and benefits are a plus.
- Have/can establish strong relationships within healthcare and other key industries.
- Ability to quickly build rapport, inspire trust, and engage diverse populations in individual and group environments.
- Experience presenting to/interacting with audiences at all levels, including executives.
- Relationship development via cold-calling, face-to-face interactions, phone outreach, professional/social networking, and written communication.
- Motivated, ambitious, energetic, service mindset, strategic thinker.
- Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Flexible and adaptable, a team player, enjoys collaboration and sharing successes, and possesses great integrity.
- High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Microsoft BI)
- Must be able to travel within the territory (up to 70%) and to conferences as needed (10%)
Skills Required
- Residence in Nashville, Memphis, Cleveland, or Cincinnati within the assigned territory
- Bachelor’s degree in a directly relevant discipline
- 3–5 years of successful B2B sales or business development experience
- Strong relationships within healthcare and other key industries
- Ability to build rapport, inspire trust, and engage diverse populations
- Experience presenting to and interacting with audiences at all levels, including executives
- Relationship development through cold calling, face-to-face interactions, phone outreach, networking, and written communication
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Flexible, adaptable, collaborative, team-oriented, and ethical
- High proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Microsoft BI
- Ability to travel within the territory up to 70% and attend conferences as needed
- Master’s degree
- At least two years providing educational services and benefits
Post University Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Post University and has not been reviewed or approved by Post University.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as broad, including medical, dental, and vision plans along with supplemental options such as accident and critical illness coverage. Additional health-related supports like FSAs, dependent care accounts, and an assistance program are also included.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include both Traditional and Roth 401(k) plan options alongside life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance. This combination supports longer-term financial planning beyond base pay.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Lifestyle benefits include tuition assistance for associates and immediate family members, plus extras like pet insurance and various discount programs. Flexibility in time and location is also highlighted as a meaningful non-cash benefit.
Post University Insights
What We Do
Based in Waterbury, Connecticut, since 1890, Post University is known for its innovation and focus on providing every online and on-campus student an extraordinary educational experience with an unmatched level of personalized support. Among the first in the nation and the first in the State of Connecticut to offer full degrees online, Post fuels the personal aspirations and career goals of its students with inventive and robust learning technologies that deliver in-demand undergraduate and graduate degree programs, small class sizes, individual attention, and customizable degree concentrations. Respected for its Honors Program, NCAA Division II athletics, and pioneering role in online education for more than 20 years, Post University is licensed by the State of Connecticut through the Office of Higher Education and is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE). The following degree programs offered by the Malcolm Baldrige School of Business are programmatically accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP): Associate of Science – Accounting, Marketing, Management; Bachelor of Science – Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, Management, Marketing, Sport Management; Master of Science – Accounting; Master of Business Administration (MBA). Post is ranked among the best by U.S. News & World Report. Learn more about how Post Makes It Personal™ by visiting www.Post.edu. For useful consumer information go to http://post.edu/consumer-information.
