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CATHERINE MODUPE SANWO

400 Waterloo Avenue Guelph N1H7H9,ON

Summary

Experienced counseling manager and business development manager in charge of overseeing and coordinating all operations with extensive experience in organizing the end-to-end inquiry and conversion process for prospective students. Work closely with other members of the admissions team and university partners, using well-developed influencing skills. Bringing forth broad marketing knowledge coupled with focused campaign experience, I am adept at creating and implementing client-centered, successful conversions that are aimed at improving students’ satisfaction in a timely manner. A collaborative and creative manager is accomplished at managing offers and providing high-quality customer service to all prospective students at all stages of the inquiry process, as well as liaising with applicants and their nominated advisers or families to guide them through the inquiry and conversion process, ensuring that they have all the information they require regarding the process, programs, and the university.

Energetic business development professional, driven to motivate and excite employees to reach optimum performance. Natural leader and complex problem solver. Experienced with product testing, management, and the development of new business opportunities.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Counselling Manager/Business Development Manager

Negxy Concept Limited
01.2023 - Current
  • Provide administrative support to the team across all branches
  • Schedule meetings and appointments and general office duties
  • Manage over 20 team members and delegate tasks
  • Resolve escalations and ensure a smooth student journey
  • Conduct Training sessions and help build a world-class team of counselors
  • Generated new business with marketing initiatives and strategic plans.
  • Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to achieve set target
  • Meet Allotted Team targets (Leads, Applications, and Visas) and contribute to developing astrong and efficient counseling team
  • Identified and pursued valuable business opportunities to generate new company revenue and improve bottom-line profit.
  • I negotiated and closed long-term agreements with new clients in the assigned territory.
  • Working on timely reporting to the General manager
  • Manage student applications, spreadsheets, files and confidential student data with a high degree of accuracy and efficiency, confidentiality, and by Privacy legislation
  • MARKETING AND RELATIONSHIP BUILDING RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Assess local market conditions and identify current and prospective sales opportunities
  • Develop forecasts, financial objectives and business plans
  • Establish effective working relationships with partners to foster collaboration and cooperation
  • Negotiating contracts with new partners to ensure they comply with company standards.
  • Established relationships with key decision-makers within the customer's organization to promote growth and retention.
  • Reached out to potential customers via telephone, email, and in-person inquiries.
  • Taught consultative selling techniques to new and existing staff members to build expertise.
  • Monitored market trends and competitor activities to identify areas of potential opportunity.
  • Developed new proposals, contracts, and procedures to draw in more clients and streamline work operations.
  • Engaged in product training, demonstrations, consumer awareness, branding, and acquisition initiatives to raise awareness and revenues.
  • Demonstrated products to show potential customers benefits and advantages and encourage purchases.

Counselling Manager

Negxy Concept Limited
08.2021 - 12.2022
  • Directs the counseling team by checking for compliance with each university’s requirements for admissions
  • Come up with creativity on how the counseling team would dispense their role effectively
  • Developed and maintained relationships with clients and suppliers through account development.
  • Train and update team member on the updates on requirements and admissions for each country
  • Provide all necessary strategies to convert inquiries in order to meet targets and goals and complete academic consideration of each applicant
  • Resolved staff member conflicts by actively listening to concerns and finding appropriate middle ground.
  • Prepare Students for interviews and every other requirement for admission
  • Prepare and brief other members of the team regarding discount and scholarship awards
  • Assign daily, monthly, or yearly tasks to team member
  • Makes sure Counseling team meets their departmental goals
  • Review team members reports, give feedback, and send it to the Manager
  • Cross-train existing employees to maximize team agility and performance.
  • Onboarded new employees with training and new hire documentation.
  • Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
  • Maintained a professional, organized, and safe environment for employees and patrons.
  • Planned and budgeted accurately to provide businesses with the resources needed to operate smoothly.
  • Communicated clearly with employees and stakeholders to keep everyone on the same page and working toward established business goals.
  • Monitored and analyzed business performance to identify areas of improvement and make necessary adjustments.
  • Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members.

Counselling Officer

Negxy Concept Limited
03.2021 - 07.2021

• A lead call enquires who registered for or attended our events.

• Help the students find the best university with worldwide recognition that are offering excellent education suitable for them.

• Meet students face-to-face

• Assess inquiries and applications; Academic background

• Discuss Student options at lead stage based on their financial suitability

• Attend Education Events overseas

• Plan Recruitment Trips in the target market

Country Representative

British Canadian International Education, The University Greenwich
03.2020 - 03.2021
  • Assess student's application to meet the entry requirements at the University, pay the required deposit and fees when joining the university and ensure their application is not forged or fraudulent
  • Monitored project progress, identified risks, and took corrective action as needed.
  • Facilitated workshops to collect project requirements and user feedback.
  • Doing general administrative work, preparing appropriate spreadsheets, emailing, and ensuring the office is running smoothly for all the University of Greenwich enquiries
  • Help with the planning, preparation and running of the British Council and BCIE Fairs whenever the University of Greenwich attends them
  • Familiarity with any current and new courses, procedures, etc
  • Developed and implemented fair plans and budgets to ensure successful execution.
  • At the University of Greenwich, such that I can counsel the student correctly and only take in their applications if they are able to gain admission.

Education

Certificate Course (training in progress) Google Garage Associate Member Computer Professionals of Nigeria (CPN) July 2015. -

Ibadan Business School, School of Enterprise Management

B.Sc. - Computer Science (ICT

Ajayi Crowther University
2015

Skills

  • Content Marketing
  • Learning development
  • Business management and development
  • Project development and life cycle
  • Information recall and Microsoft Office
  • Sales funnel development
  • CRM
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Good negotiation skills
  • Initiative, resourcefulness, and resilience
  • Can work with minimal supervision
  • Fast learner
  • Email Marketing

Accomplishments

  • Facebook/FATE Foundation Aspiring Entrepreneurs Digital
  • Program
  • April 2018
  • Training Course on Social media Marketing
  • United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
  • November 2017
  • Training Course on Big Data
  • Association for Computing Machinery Chapter
  • July 2017
  • Training Course on Ethical Hacking
  • Computer Warfare, Cyber Ethics and Cybercrime Workshop May 2014
  • Training Course on Ethics
  • Job Ethics Workshop July 2014
  • Negotiating contracts with new partners to ensure they comply with company standards
  • Providing training and support to new partner recruits to ensure they are able to effectively sell the company's products or services
  • Monitoring partner performance to ensure they are meeting sales quotas and maintaining customer satisfaction
  • Evaluating the performance of existing channel partners, suggesting improvements where necessary
  • Establishing and maintaining effective communication with partners to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction
  • Monitoring competitor activity in the industry to identify opportunities for market share growth
  • Understanding the issues & challenges faced by channel partners & communicate with the team to help them resolve them
  • Assisting with activities to promote universities represented by the company
  • Monitoring and developing reports on competitor activity in various spaces
  • Suggesting and implementing new features to develop brand awareness, like promotions and competitions
  • Supporting and overseeing key events including open days, pre-departure conferences and study abroad fairs
  • LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Identify training needs and opportunities; develops and implements a plan for meeting those needs
  • Locate areas of improvement and propose corrective actions that meet challenges and leverage growth opportunities
  • Implement Organizational Values, Goals & objectives within the team
  • Conducts regular staff meetings to ensure that goals and objectives are clearly communicated with branch staff and provide guidance and leadership to enable staff to meet these goals and objectives
  • Identify training needs and opportunities; develops and implements a plan for meeting those needs.

Timeline

Counselling Manager/Business Development Manager

Negxy Concept Limited
01.2023 - Current

Counselling Manager

Negxy Concept Limited
08.2021 - 12.2022

Counselling Officer

Negxy Concept Limited
03.2021 - 07.2021

Country Representative

British Canadian International Education, The University Greenwich
03.2020 - 03.2021

Certificate Course (training in progress) Google Garage Associate Member Computer Professionals of Nigeria (CPN) July 2015. -

Ibadan Business School, School of Enterprise Management

B.Sc. - Computer Science (ICT

Ajayi Crowther University
CATHERINE MODUPE SANWO