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Educational Tour Consultant, Inside Sales
EF Educational Tours Canada
Vancouver, BC
Hybrid work environment (opportunity to work from home up to 2 days a week)
Grab your passport, pack your bags, and join us at EF Education First as we revolutionize the educational travel industry and transform students into the next generation of global citizens.
Continue 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’ll 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—we want you to have a career. We’ve helped our people grow into senior sales, marketing, operations, finance, technology or anywhere else your skills and passions can help our business grow.
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
Work in our light-filled office where you’ll enjoy comprehensive professional development, frequent social programming, and employee-run social groups (including our “EFinity” 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
- Three weeks paid vacation your first year (four weeks starting in year two) and nine paid holidays
- 20% company match on your RRSP (25% after 5-years)
- Excellent health, dental, and vision coverage, along with life and disability insurance, plus unlimited sick days
- 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.
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—identifying, 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—from 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’s travel experiences
- Sell a product that truly changes students’ 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’s what they have in common—sound like you?
- You’re eager to start, or expand, your career in sales with a role that offers real responsibility and accountability
- You’re fiercely competitive, in a nice, team player sort-of-way
- You’re a great persuasive communicator and natural networkers who loves talking to people
- You don’t subscribe to the phrase, “that’s not my job”
- You nail the details while moving quickly, never losing sight of the big picture
- You know that you can sell and you’re 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
