Head - Expansion and School Development - Edtech - 8+Years - Hyderabad/Mumbai

We are looking for an experienced Expansion & School Development professional with strong expertise in market feasibility, location strategy, asset sourcing, due diligence, and multi-site project delivery. The role will own the expansion journey from identifying the right market and school format to sourcing the right asset and delivering a school-ready premises across multiple cities.

Location - Mumbai/Hyderabad

Your Future Employer A rapidly growing K-12 education platform with an ambitious vision to build and scale a network of premium schools across India. The organization operates across multiple school formats, including Greenfield, Micro School, and Roll-Up models, with expansion planned across key metropolitan markets.

Responsibilities

- Building and maintaining city-level expansion intelligence by assessing catchment demographics, household income, competition, demand, pricing, and market potential.
- Leading and evaluating asset sourcing across school formats, while managing property consultants, real estate brokers, and infrastructure advisors.
- Preparing and presenting location feasibility reports, site assessments, financial projections, business cases, and go/no-go recommendations to senior leadership.
- Managing end-to-end project delivery, including architect and contractor coordination, milestone tracking, quality oversight, variation management, and premises handover.
- Coordinating and driving due diligence, compliance assessments, asset evaluation, school acquisitions/Roll-Up opportunities,



and expansion planning across multiple cities.

Requirements

- Possessing 812 years of experience in school network expansion, education real estate, retail/hospitality multi-site growth, or strategic expansion roles.
- Demonstrating strong experience in market feasibility and location strategy, including micromarket analysis, competitor mapping, price sensitivity, demand estimation, and catchment assessment.
- Having hands-on experience in asset sourcing and evaluation, including land, buildings, existing schools, lease/acquisition assessments, and infrastructure due diligence.
- Demonstrating end-to-end project management expertise across construction/fit-out projects, including architect and contractor management, milestone tracking, and handover.
- Possessing solid analytical, strategic, stakeholder and vendor management skills, with the ability to build business cases, challenge assumptions, and present clear recommendations to senior leadership.

What's in it for You

- Opportunity to build and shape a large-scale K-12 school expansion network across India.
- Direct exposure to senior leadership and significant influence over expansion decisions.




- Opportunity to combine strategic market analysis with hands-on project delivery across multiple school formats.
- High-ownership role within a rapidly scaling education platform.
- Competitive compensation with performance-linked variable opportunity.

Reach Us If this role aligns with your career aspirations, please share your updated CV at [email protected] for a confidential discussion.

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📌 Head - Expansion and School Development - Edtech - 8+Years - Hyderabad
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