Sales Manager

Cerchiamo per il nostro team in Ticino una/un dirigente che affiancherà l'attuale per un periodo per poi sostituirla dal 2024. 

In this senior position you will be responsible of a team and lead our mission to drive growth in Ticino. Your responsibilities will include overall strategic development, coordination of day-to-day sales and marketing activities, management and development of staff, and oversight of P&L.

You will lead an entrepreneurial and international business and directly influence its development and growth in the education/study abroad market in Ticino. In this highly visible role, you will assume the position of the face of a well-known and highly visible brand. We are looking for a manager who will work with the current responsible and grow into full leadership of the sales market within the year.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Sales

• Develop, execute, and support your team to meet short and long-term sales goals in the Swiss italian market.
• Understand and beat previous year’s sales accomplishments.
• Have knowledge of current sales trends in your markets, and always be thinking 5 steps ahead.
• Overall responsibility for coordinating day-to-day sales activities.

Strategy

• Analysis of your teams, sales situation, the current market, and our competitors.
• To develop sales and marketing strategies and to then implement and evaluate tactics.
• To contribute to the development of the dedicated product under your responsibility.

Operations

• Responsibility for the control and monitoring of budgets as well as ensuring effective expense planning and cost controls.
• To build up new links and maintain existing relations with schools and universities.
• Managing time for local administrative work like invoicing, visa preparation, marketing material distributions, and so on.
• To assist in creating marketing material and the production of it.

Staff management

• To motivate sales teams, establishing individual and team goals and objectives.
• Responsibility for performance management of sales coordinators, including performance reviews and development plans.
• Identify staffing needs and execute successful recruitment campaigns.

REQUIREMENTS

• Degree from a reputable University in Marketing, Business Administration, or equivalent
• 5+ years work experience 
• A highly energetic and ambitious self-starter
• Entrepreneurial spirit with a strong sense of ownership
• Tested leadership ability
• Strong business acumen and commercial instincts
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Fully fluent in Italian and professional in written and verbal English

Desired Skills and Experience

• A graduate degree qualification or equivalent, preferably in sales, marketing, business, administration or a related discipline.
• 1-2 years of team leadership experience
• Experience living abroad
• Master of Business Administration, strongly preferred
• Experience in a service-oriented industry

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 more than 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, age, religion, caste, parental status, identity, 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://www.ef.com.