Regional Manager Education Loan

Regional Manager Education Loan

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JOB DESCRIPTION Regional Manager- Education Loan JOB PURPOSE Acquire and convert eligible Education Loan customers through compliant counselling, disciplined funnel management, complete documentation, coordinated fulfilment and active ownership of portfolio quality. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Generate and manage leads from direct, referral, consultant, institution and partner channels.
• Counsel students and co-applicants on course, country, institution, funding requirement, repayment construct and documentation.
• Capture complete application data, customer consent and source attribution in approved systems.
• Collect and validate admission, academic, KYC, income, banking and collateral documents before login.
• Coordinate with Credit, Operations, Verification and partners to resolve queries and progress files within agreed service levels.
• Track the lead-to-login, login-to-sanction and sanction-to-disbursement funnel and record lost reasons and corrective actions.
• Communicate sanction terms, conditions and pending requirements accurately to customers.
• Maintain compliant selling, customer confidentiality, audit trails and approved communication standards.
• Support portfolio quality through appropriate sourcing, fraud vigilance and early issue escalation.
• Own regional portfolio-quality governance, including X-bucket and early-delinquency performance, review of location and channel trends, corrective action plans, and senior-level coordination with Collections, Credit, Risk and Operations.
• Set regional sales direction and operating rhythm.
• Own governance, resource priorities, senior stakeholder alignment and capability building.
• Sponsor process, channel and portfolio-quality interventions. KEY DECISIONS / DIMENSIONS Decision Rights
• Make day-to-day sales and customer-management decisions within approved policy, process, pricing and delegated authority.
• Prioritise and allocate customer follow-ups, including portfolio-quality and X-bucket actions, within the assigned scope.
• Escalate policy deviations, material customer impact, fraud indicators, persistent overdue cases and unresolved dependencies.
• Commercial, hiring and budget authorities are to be defined in the approved delegation matrix. Key Interactions Internal Sales, Product, Credit/Underwriting, Risk, Operations, RCU/Fraud Control, Collections, Compliance, Finance, Technology, HR and COE. External Students, co-applicants, universities, education consultants, DSAs, referral partners and other approved service providers. MAJOR CHALLENGES
• Balancing growth, customer experience, turnaround time and portfolio quality.
• Managing incomplete or inconsistent customer, academic and financial information.
• Driving timely customer engagement for pre-due, pre-bounce and overdue cases while following approved conduct standards.
• Coordinating Sales, Collections, Credit, Risk and Operations to address X-bucket and early-delinquency issues. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE Postgraduate or equivalent qualification preferred, with substantial sales leadership experience in lending or financial services. CRITICAL SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
• Education Loan customer counselling
• Sales execution and relationship management
• Portfolio-quality and X-bucket management awareness
• Customer repayment engagement and early-delinquency follow-up
• Understanding of academic, income and KYC documents
• CRM/LOS usage and MIS discipline
• Communication, negotiation and customer orientation
• Compliance, fraud and customer-conduct awareness
• Excel, presentation and business MIS capability
• High standards of integrity and customer confidentiality Must-have skills Education Loan customer counsellingSales executionRelationship management

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