Business Development & Enrichment Manager (Education)

A leading international education group is hiring a Business Development & Enrichment Manager to drive commercial growth of enrichment programmes in Malaysia. This regional role focuses on expanding ancillary offerings from after-school care and camps to facility rentals while partnering with senior leaders to identify new opportunities, strengthen vendor partnerships, and deliver sustainable growth through data-driven strategies.

What you'll do:

As Business Development and Enrichment Manager based in Kuala Lumpur, you will be instrumental in expanding the breadth and quality of enrichment activities offered by a network of prestigious international schools. Your day-to-day responsibilities will see you identifying fresh commercial opportunities within a wide array of student-focused programmes such as ECAs (extracurricular activities), international exchanges, summer camps, extended day services like after-school care or Saturday classes as well as managing facility rentals. You will collaborate closely with internal teams including finance directors, principals, operations managers and marketing specialists—alongside external partners—to ensure every initiative is implemented smoothly from concept through execution. By reviewing existing agreements for optimisation opportunities while introducing new ones based on robust data analysis and stakeholder feedback you will help set new standards for programme quality. Your ability to create user-friendly toolkits ensures consistency across all campuses while your marketing coordination skills help maximise participation. Ultimately your work will directly contribute to enriching student life beyond academics while driving sustainable income growth for the organisation.

• Identify and evaluate new business opportunities within enrichment categories such as extracurricular activities, school trips, international programmes, summer schools, after-school care, Saturday school sessions, STEM initiatives, and facility hire.
• Source potential partners and vendors; assess their suitability for adoption at both regional and individual school levels while building positive relationships through early engagement and due diligence.
• Develop clear proposals and recommendations for new initiatives based on market trends, demand analysis, and specific school needs to ensure alignment with organisational goals.
• Support the rollout of the enrichment brand across Asia by collaborating with stakeholders to embed new programmes consistently across all schools.
• Review existing ancillary activity levels, vendor contracts, and commercial arrangements to identify areas for improvement in programme quality, participation rates, pricing strategies, and financial performance.
• Work closely with providers and school stakeholders to optimise current agreements; establish consistent processes, templates, and standards that professionalise enrichment operations region-wide.
• Share insights and best practices across schools to capture known opportunities for improvement in programme delivery, vendor management, pricing models, and operational efficiency.
• Create comprehensive roll-out plans, guides, and toolkits that enable smooth implementation of new initiatives at the school level while providing practical support on scheduling, pricing structures, programme design, and parent communications.
• Coordinate marketing efforts to promote enrichment activities effectively; facilitate cross-school sharing of successful approaches to foster a culture of collaboration.
• Engage regularly with principals, operations teams, finance departments, marketing professionals, external vendors, suppliers, parents (as customers), ensuring seamless communication throughout project lifecycles.

What you bring:

To excel as Business Development and Enrichment Manager you will bring substantial experience designing implementing managing enrichment programmes within educational environments—whether through ECAs camps trips or other student-centred initiatives. Your strong commercial acumen enables you not only identify promising opportunities but also evaluate partner suitability negotiate advantageous terms optimise existing contracts—all while maintaining transparency fairness throughout every transaction. Data fluency is essential: your ability interpret complex participation revenue trends allows you make informed decisions that benefit both students organisational sustainability. You are adept at juggling multiple projects simultaneously thanks highly organised nature attention detail ensuring nothing falls through cracks even under pressure tight deadlines. Your interpersonal skills shine when collaborating diverse groups—from campus principals finance leads marketing professionals external vendors—helping everyone feel included valued part shared mission. Clear concise communicator you can distil complex information into accessible formats whether drafting agreements preparing toolkits presenting recommendations stakeholders large small groups alike. Above all your integrity reliability professionalism underpin everything do earning respect trust those around you safeguarding sensitive information always acting best interests students wider community.

• Demonstrated experience managing or developing enrichment or ancillary programmes such as extracurricular activities (ECAs), camps, trips or academies within an educational setting.
• Strong commercial awareness with proven ability to spot new business opportunities; evaluate potential partners; improve value from existing agreements; negotiate terms effectively with vendors or service providers.
• Confident working with data—able to interpret participation trends or revenue performance metrics—and translate these insights into actionable recommendations that drive results.
• Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders including principals; finance; operations; marketing teams—guiding them through successful rollouts of new initiatives across different locations simultaneously.
• Highly organised approach enabling effective management of several concurrent projects spanning various schools without compromising on quality or timelines.
• Proven track record reviewing drafting optimising commercial agreements—including vendor contracts partnership MOUs facility hire arrangements—ensuring compliance clarity fairness throughout documentation processes.
• Ability to draft clear ancillary programme agreements covering commercial terms pricing service levels deliverables compliance requirements ready for legal review when necessary.
• Exceptional communication influencing skills allowing you build trust rapport support among both internal colleagues external partners alike fostering collaborative working relationships at all times.
• Experience negotiating margins service expectations with enrichment providers facility partners ensuring mutually beneficial outcomes aligned organisational objectives.
• Capacity create simple clear processes toolkits guides empowering school teams execute initiatives consistently efficiently regardless context scale.

What sets this company apart:

This organisation stands out as one of Malaysia’s most respected education groups, their transformative approach goes far beyond traditional academics: they ignite curiosity nurture self-confidence empower young people become changemakers who positively impact society locally globally. As part global network over 100 international schools spanning 20+ countries they offer unparalleled opportunities for professional growth knowledge sharing cultural exchange—all within supportive inclusive environment where wellbeing diversity belonging are genuinely prioritised every level. Staff benefit from ongoing training access latest educational innovations encouragement pursue continuous personal development alongside talented compassionate colleagues committed making real difference children families communities serve. The organisation’s core principles place students heart everything do championing care respect financial responsibility relentless focus what matters most—all underpinned by unwavering commitment safeguarding promoting welfare every child entrusted their care. If you share passion inclusive education want contribute vibrant forward-thinking team dedicated shaping brighter future next generation this is perfect place grow career make lasting impact.

What's next:

If you are inspired by the prospect of shaping transformative enrichment experiences for thousands of students across Malaysia—and beyond—this is your moment to take the next step in your career journey!

Apply today by clicking on the link provided—your expertise could be exactly what this leading education group needs to continue raising the bar for student engagement excellence.

Do note that we will only be in touch if your application is shortlisted.

Agensi Pekerjaan Robert Walters Sdn Bhd
Business Registration Number : 729828-T
Licence Number : JTKSM 423C