Jennifer Bruce

Since 2007 Jen has been working in the Higher Education industry, joining Studyportals in May 2013. Over her time at Studyportals she gone from leading regional teams to managing large Business Units for the UK and EMEA, and from June 2023 joined the Management Team as our Global Commercial Director.

As the Global Commercial Director, together with a team of over 75 superheroes located all around the world, she builds and delivers on the overall strategy, goals and vision we have at Studyportals.

Jen and the Business Unit’s continue to focus on providing long-term partnerships, data-driven solutions and diversity strategies to the ever-changing Higher Education landscape to Universities and other HE organisations. The commercial success Jen and the team deliver allows Studyportals to continue to give back to our most important audience – our students, (check out our very own Studyportals Scholarship’s). It also supports us to continually invest in new innovations to ensure we reach every single potential student globally. After all our mission is to create global education transparency, choice, and access across borders.

Jen can be often be found on University campus’s around the world, attending international conferences and events, joining panel discussions and presenting key research at workshops.

Jen studied her BA Tourism and Recreation Management at Sheffield Hallam University and as part of this 4-year degree spent a year completing her SWE in the USA split between New Paltz, NY and San Antonio, TX. Prior to joining the Higher Education Sector, she worked for British Airways and Thomas Cook, where her love of education and travel has taken her all over the world with her favourite places being Cape Town, Melbourne, Hong Kong and Eindhoven (Of Course).

Studyportals mission and core values align with her own personal values. Jen recently shared with us ‘I have been fortunate enough to work with the most dedicated and knowledgeable team of colleagues and leaders. Together we have helped change and improve the lives of many international students, and continue our mission of global education transparency, choice, and access across borders. One of our core values is #personalgrowthiskey and Studyportals has 100% given me this. As a fully inclusive and diverse company with no invisible walls, I am proud to be an example of women in leadership.’

Jen also shared that she enjoys discovering new programmes on our portals that spark curiosity, and appeal, one she recently found interesting is: Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, from Colorado State University. This is a programme very topical in her view, it provides a strong scientific foundation in ecosystem ecology integrated with a broad knowledge of the cultural, social, economic, and political issues that are shaping the issue of sustainability.