Ref: IIMB/HR/RECT/2025/5 Date: 23 January 2025
About IIMB
The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) is a leading graduate school of
management in Asia. Underthe IIM Act of 2017, IIMB is an Institute of National Importance.
Industry/Service
Higher Education
Post/Job Title
Associate Manager – CareerDevelopment Services
Job Purpose
The primary responsibility of the incumbent is to devise and implement plans for career opportunities for IIMB’s students of degree granting programs such as Post-Graduate Program in Management A), Post-Graduate Program in Management – Business Analytics (MBA-BA) and Executive PostGraduate Program in Management (EPGP).The incumbent
needs to plandevelopment activities forthe Career Development Services (CDS) Office.
Principal Accountabilities & Responsibilities
- The incumbent must manage and monitor thecareer development services related to the DGPs and drive registration of new recruiters.
- The incumbent is responsible for maintaining and strengthening relationships with current recruiters.
- S/he is expected to be involved intensely in the development of the poolof recruiters located in India and outside India and ensure maximum possible job offers.
- To be involved in the administrative activities related to the CDS Office.
- S/he needsto build and strengthen relationships with potential recruiters and will be responsible for meeting targets with respect to the number of recruiters for campus placements.
- The rolerequires planning thebusiness development activities on a yearly, quarterly, and monthly basis and reviewing the implementation of the same.
- S/he mustengage current and prospective recruiters for their participation in campus interviews.
- S/he mustinteract with theDGP students and student bodyrepresentatives to understand their career preferences.
- S/he mustconduct career guidance sessions spreadover the year.
- Handling internal processes such as generating reports, maintaining databases, responding to internal queries and contributing to internal recruitment on an ongoing basis.
- Should be able to manage digitization of the CDSprocess and activities.
- S/he mustseek and conduct meetings with decision-makers across companies and showcase the talent pool of IIMB.
- The incumbent must review theperformance of the team members, give feedback, identify the learning needs, and develop the capabilities of the team.
Key Skill and Ability Requirements
- Strong analytical, planning and forecasting skills should be detail-oriented andhave the ability to drive business development.
- Should haveexperience in placingstudents at middleand senior management levels.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with a solution-orientation mindset.
- Should be self-motivated and able to work independently, with a strongsense of urgency regarding timely follow up and customer service orientation.
- Strong commitment to service and capacity to collaborate and communicate with diverse communities – faculty, students, non-academic staff, andexternal stakeholders.
- Ability to identify and collaborate withinternal stakeholders andability to networkand
manage relationships effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
- Proficiency in MS Officesoftware, e-mail, electronic scheduling, databases and internet and ERP.
- Strong communication skills – verbaland written.
- Ability to maintain organized and accurate written and electronic records of all relevant work in the department and the results thereof.
- Ability to prioritize workin the department and effectively manage thesame.
- Willingness to travel whenrequired.
Should be fluentin English andHindi. Knowledge of a foreignlanguage would be an added advantage.
Qualification and Personal Profile
- Candidates shouldhave a Master’s degree with 60%marks.
- The candidate should have min. 10 years’ experience in Career Development Services/Placement activities froman educational institute and should have handled assignments listed under major duties & responsibilities.
- Working experience with IIMs or top business schools preferred
Interested candidates may fill the application using the link: here
The closing date for applications is 06thFebruary 2025. Only shortlisted candidates will be intimated. It is mandatory to fill in all the fields in the application and relevant supporting documents are to be uploaded. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) is a leading graduate school of management in Asia. Under the IIM Act of 2017. IIMB is an Institute of National Importance.
IIMB has 113 full time faculty members, about 1200 students across various degree-granting programmes and nearly 5000 annual Executive Education participants.
Our logo carries a proclamation in Sanskrit, तेजस्वि नावधीतमस्तु (tejasvi navadhitamastu), which translates as ‘let our study be enlightening’.
Our vision is to be a global, renowned academic institution fostering excellence in management, innovation and entrepreneurship for business, government and society.
We have taken several steps to meet the vision set for IIMB. These include hiring high quality faculty, enhancing the quality of research, emphasizing internationalization, expanding our activities in the field of entrepreneurship, in both research and mentoring, scaling up in terms of student intake in all the programmes, deepening our engagement with the alumni, improving infrastructure, and improving administration and governance.
