Tour Consultant, Partnership Sales

• EF Go Ahead Tours
• Denver, CO/Cambridge, MA
• Start Date: January 1, 2025
• Application Deadline: November 17, 2024

**For consideration, applicants must live/relocate to the state of Colorado/Massachusetts prior to their start date.

For over 30 years, EF Go Ahead Tours has guided adult travelers across the globe via carefully crafted group travel itineraries. Our travelers range from young professionals to retirees, solo travelers to entire families, travel enthusiasts to those stepping off their first flight. We believe the best way to learn about the world is to experience it and every day we come to work hoping to help as many people as possible do just that.

The Opportunity:

The Partnerships sales team forges strategic alliances with organizations across North America to develop member travel programs. As a member of our high energy, collaborative and competitive sales team, you will play a critical role in developing customer acquisition and retention strategies while simultaneously identifying opportunities to improve the customer experience. Your greatest assets are your killer sales drive, never-give-up attitude, competitive nature, organization, and enthusiasm for travel. You will be a critical part of a team that values personal performance, creativity, and determination.

Responsibilities:

• Independently uncover new business opportunities, build pipeline, close new business and manage a book of business.
• Qualify, educate, and nurture high level leads
• Maintain and practice high levels of outreach centered on phone conversations and video conversations.
• Effectively manage and communicate sales forecast.
• Become an expert on the EF/Go Ahead Tours product.
• Utilize consultative selling techniques to prospect, initiate product interest and overcome customer objections.
• Consistently achieve or exceed sales goals.
• Develop an integrated sales strategy to accomplish your goals.
• Perform competitive market and industry analysis.

Qualifications:

• Strong verbal communication and influencing skills (must be able to connect with a diverse range of individuals via telephone/video conference)
• Able to thrive in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment
• Intrinsically motivated to hit goals and create your own success.
• Demonstrates personal accountability, self-awareness, growth mindset.
• Adept in problem-solving skills.
• Ability to independently plan, organize and prioritize work while collaborating with a team and across departments.
• Must have relevant sales experience.
• Business Development Experience strongly preferred.

Why You’ll Love Working Here: Perks, Benefits and Earning Potential

Work in our North American Headquarters in Cambridge or our downtown Denver office where you’ll enjoy comprehensive professional development, frequent social programming, our employee-run “EFinity” groups, and much more!

In addition, you can expect:

• Paid International Business Travel opportunities
• Eligibility for our Workplace Flexibility Program: our pilot hybrid work model with up to two days working from home per week.
• Commitment to professional growth: robust monthly calendar of trainings, workshops and TED Talk style sessions
• Four weeks paid vacation your first year, ten paid holidays, and two floating holidays
• 25% company match on your 401(k)
• Market-leading medical, dental and vision coverage, along with life and disability insurance
• Wellness benefits including onsite and virtual classes run by EF instructors and a yearly fitness reimbursement
• EF Product Discounts (discounts on travel, international language schools, childcare with our Au Pair product and more)
• Dependent care, healthcare and commuter Flex Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Discounts at local venues and businesses
• Compensation: Tour Consultants have an on-target earning potential ranging from $54,000- 67,000 plus uncapped bonus opportunity for exceeding sales goals. Salary will be commensurate with experience. Opportunity is also open to Senior Tour Consultants.

About EF Education First

At EF we believe that the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, we have helped millions of people see new places, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and about themselves. Our culturally immersive education programs-focused on language, travel, cultural exchange, and academics-turn dreams into international opportunities.

When you join EF, you join a multicultural and diverse community working across 600 schools and offices in 50 countries, all with one shared mission of opening the world through education. Whoever you are, whatever you are passionate about-we welcome you and want you to bring that to work every day. EF is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to inclusion and belonging across race, ethnicity, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, age, religion, ability, parental status, experience and everything else that makes you unique.

Founded in Sweden in 1965, EF has schools and offices around the world, including hubs in Boston, London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Shanghai, Stockholm, Zürich, and more. Learn more at https://ef.com

At EF Education First, we believe that the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, EF has helped millions of people see new places, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and about themselves.