UPP - Managing Director

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UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAMME

Job description

Partnership • Develop and maintain key stakeholder relationships with university partners to enable open and transparent dialogue around performance and optimisation of the contract. • Foster close personal relationships with individual key stakeholders grounded in the UPP values of partnership, community, innovation delivered responsibly. • Ensure a plan is established to maintain long term continuity of relationships, particularly during periods of personnel change at partner universities. • Collaborate with other UPP departments to communicate and manage risks and opportunities that have a significant impact on the student experience or commerciality of the contract. • Promote and demonstrate a collaborative approach to working in partnership, using two way communication and exchange of business intelligence to deliver the shared objectives of each university partnership relationship. Student Experience • Ensure agreed strategies are in place to deliver and enhance the student experience, working in a complimentary manner to the university partner’s own strategy. • Design and implement student experience programmes and initiatives in conjunction with university partners. Accommodation Services • Provide leadership and strategic direction to the activities of establishing appropriate rental levels and through the annual rent review process. • Lead the marketing and allocations of rooms where applicable across the portfolio with a view to maximising revenues. • Develop new initiatives in support of marketing and allocation of partner universities. • Ensure appropriate management information is produced and able to support decision making and management of risks.

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