Chief Marketing and Student Recruitment Officer - PE backed Higher Education Group - London/South East

Anderson Quigley is mid-search for a Chief Marketing & Student Recruitment Officer to join the executive leadership team of a substantial investor backed higher education group. The search closes on Friday 21st August.

Who we are looking for:

A highly commercial leader with significant experience at Director or C-Suite level across marketing and student recruitment, and sales or customer acquisition.

Where you will have gained this experience:

Ideally gained within private, independent, investor-backed or commercially operated higher education. We will also consider exceptional leaders from adjacent sectors with comparable direct to consumer acquisition models i.e. SaaS, subscription services, private healthcare, etc.

What this role is not:

Whilst the following experience is valuable in its own right, this is not necessarily a role for pure brand, communications or PR specialists, admissions administrators, conventional agency leaders, or candidates whose experience has been exclusively within traditional public sectors, without any meaningful commercial exposure.

Key Criteria:

• Ownership of the full student recruitment/sales funnel, from demand generation through to enrolment.
• Strong command of conversion, channel performance, cost of acquisition, forecasting and ROI.
• Effective use of data, CRM, digital, automation, and AI to improve performance.
• Experience delivering against ambitious student number and revenue targets.
• Credibility operating with CEOs, Boards and ideally PE owners/investors.
• Experience at Director, Executive Director or C-Suite level within a multi-disciplinary portfolio of marketing and student recruitment/sales.

Next Steps:

If this sounds closely aligned to your background, please get in touch with Eva Tomka at eva.tomka@andersonquigley.com before Friday 21 August for a private conversation. We would be delighted to advise further.