Job Description

Educational Tour Consultant
EF Educational Tours
Entry Level, Full-Time
Starting Date: August 2023
Location: Vancouver, BC - Hybrid (Opportunity to work in-office 3 days a week and from home 2 days a week. This is not a remote role.) Start your career in sales in a fun, collaborative, and fast-paced environment! EF Education First is looking for passionate, results-driven individuals to join our team! As an Educational Tour Consultant, you\xe2\x80\x99ll be responsible for managing and growing a geographic territory of existing and prospective clients through outbound sales calls. Your mission? To inspire Canadian educators to show their students the world, serving as their partner to create travel programs at their schools. We will onboard you, train you, and support your continued career development with our comprehensive Entrepreneurial Sales Development Program. We focus on cultivating your sales technique, entrepreneurial spirit, and professional skillsets.

We want you to not just have a job at EF\xe2\x80\x94we want you to have a career. We\xe2\x80\x99ve helped our people grow into senior sales, marketing, operations, finance, technology or anywhere else your skills and passions can help our business grow. What You\'ll Do:

• Manage and grow a geographic territory of existing and prospective clients
• Work with middle and high school teachers to launch travel programs/trips
• Run your territory like a business\xe2\x80\x94identifying, developing, and executing opportunities to drive growth
• Acquire new customers, and grow existing key accounts, to help more students and educators discover the world
• Forecast and deliver key account metrics (monthly and quarterly sales projections and goals)
• Refine your sales techniques and support customers through email, phone, online presentations, and in-person meetings
• Support your customers every step of the way\xe2\x80\x94from inspiring them to lead a tour, to helping them recruit student travelers, preparing them for departure, ensuring they enjoy their time on tour and return home safely.
• Collaborate with our internal operations teams to ensure the successful delivery of your client\xe2\x80\x99s travel experiences
• Sell a product that truly changes students\xe2\x80\x99 lives by being fearless, focused and having fun! And you travel too!

Who You Are: People from all different professional and educational backgrounds have thrived in this role. Here\xe2\x80\x99s what they have in common\xe2\x80\x94sound like you?

• You\xe2\x80\x99re eager to start, or expand, your career in sales with a role that offers real responsibility and accountability
• You\xe2\x80\x99re fiercely competitive, in a nice, team player sort-of-way
• You\xe2\x80\x99re a great persuasive communicator and natural networkers who loves talking to people
• You don\xe2\x80\x99t subscribe to the phrase, \xe2\x80\x9cthat\xe2\x80\x99s not my job\xe2\x80\x9d
• You nail the details while moving quickly, never losing sight of the big picture
• You know that you can sell and you\xe2\x80\x99re not afraid to prove it
• You want to be part of a team that motivates and inspires you
• Going above and beyond is the only way you do things
• Some past sales experience is an asset, but not a requirement

Why You\xe2\x80\x99ll Love Working Here: Work in our light-filled office where you\xe2\x80\x99ll enjoy comprehensive professional development, frequent social programming, office-wide sports leagues, and employee-run social groups (including our \xe2\x80\x9cEFinity\xe2\x80\x9d groups: Black@EF, LGBTQ+@EF, Indigenous@EF, API@EF, and Parents@EF). And did we mention the free coffee, beer, and snacks?! You can also expect:

• Paid international travel at least once a year (more as you grow with us)
• Robust professional growth opportunities including monthly trainings, workshops, and inspiring talks with global leaders and experts
• Four weeks paid vacation and 11 paid holidays
• 20% company match on your RRSP (25% after 5-years)
• Excellent health, dental, and vision coverage, along with life and disability insurance
• Wellness benefits including $500 yearly fitness reimbursement
• EF program discounts including travel, language schools, childcare, and more
• Discounts at local venues and businesses
• Eligibility for our Workplace Flexibility Program: our pilot hybrid work model with up to two days of remote work per week.
• Competitive compensation including bonus earning potential.

About EF Education First & Educational Tours EF Educational Tours helps teachers change their students\xe2\x80\x99 lives through educational travel. And frankly, EF does student travel better than anyone else. EF itineraries are more than just places to go and things to see. Experiential learning has been at the heart of our programs since the company started, which allows us to spark connections and inspire curiosity, confidence, and self-awareness in students and teachers from across Canada. We want every student\xe2\x80\x94regardless of gender identity, race, physical ability, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status\xe2\x80\x94to experience the life-changing impact of educational travel.

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 turn dreams into international opportunities. EF is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to inclusion and belonging across race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, parental status, identity, experience and everything else that makes you unique. Founded in Sweden in 1965, EF has school and offices around the world, including hubs in Boston, London, Mexico City, S\xc3\xa3o Paulo, Shanghai, Stockholm, Z\xc3\xbcrich, and more. Learn more about EF at https://ef.com. Or read more about our Educational Tours product at https://www.eftours.ca/