International Schools Partnership LimitedHead Of Marketing & Communications South America
Jan. 2019 - Aug. 2024Provincia de Santiago, ChileOwned regional marketing and communications strategy and built a funnel-based annual planning and monthly pacing model that linked growth targets to enrollment, lead/qualified lead goals, budgets and channel mix across schools. - Introduced a structured enrollment and retention engine (awareness → inquiry → visit → enrollment → re-enrollment), redefining parent profiles and segmenting demand drivers by market. - Improved regional performance to approx. 13% FTE and 20% EBITDA average year growth over four years, with more consistent delivery across schools. - Designed and implemented a Lead Center model to pre-qualify inquiries and follow up with non-responsive leads, handling 22K+ leads/year and increasing qualified-lead-toenrollment conversion by ~6%. - Mapped the parent research journey and built proof-based content and social strategies, delivering ~23% growth in organic channel lead generation and stronger brand trust. - Created a structured retention and referral program linked to NPS and community sentiment, increasing referrals from ~1–2 per year to ~10–15 per year per school. - Led crisis communications during Covid-19, balancing financial support and value defense, reducing complaints to minimal levels and keeping withdrawals below competitor benchmarks under ~US$2.2M of financial exposure. - Consolidated four digital agencies into a single CRM-accountable partner, standardizing weekly KPI governance and accelerating cross-school replication of winning campaigns. - Built and led a 4-month regional enablement training program on Meta & Google Ads, analytics, and CRM discipline, raising school-level execution quality and reducing dependence on agencies.