Account Executive (Tour Consultant)

Start date: January 2025
Location: Austin, in office-hybrid

Your Opportunity:

As an Educational Tour Consultant, you’ll oversee a geographic territory in the United States and run it like it’s your own business. Your mission? To inspire educators to show their students the world, serving as their partner to create international travel programs at their schools. In this sales role, you’ll work at its intersection with marketing, customer retention, operations, and product innovation, to name a few. To achieve success, you’ll create your territory’s roadmap to sustainable growth, resolve business challenges, and work with a diverse set of colleagues from across the world that will result in a beautiful customer experience. Our sales strategy emphasizes long-term relationships and consultative conversations. We will onboard you, train you, and support your continued career development.

What You'll Do:

• Manage and grow a geographic territory of existing and prospective clients through a high volume of phone calls (50-60 per day on average) and strategic outreach   
• Work with middle and high school teachers to launch international travel programs
• Strategically prospect, generate leads and follow up on leads to acquire new customers
• Grow existing key accounts, to help more students and educators discover the world
• Run your territory like a business—identifying, developing and executing opportunities to drive growth
• Forecast and hit 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
• Coach teachers to build and execute successful tour promotion for the international travel programs at your schools 
• Collaborate and strategize with the Customer Success team to ensure a smooth customer experience and overall growth in your territory 
• Field incoming phone calls from teachers across the organization to help with tour related questions or events 
• Support the emergency line during work hours while teachers are traveling during peak times

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

Why you’ll love working here: Perks, Benefits, and more!

This is the most fun, high caliber place you’ll ever work. Ask any employee why they love EF (whether they’ve been here 10 minutes or 10 years) and they’ll probably tell you the same thing: it’s the people. When you work at EF, you join a purpose-driven, international and energetic community that thrives on continuous learning, fearless innovation and mutual support. 

• 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 your first year (four weeks starting in year two) and nine paid holidays
• 25% company match on your 401(k)
• Excellent 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 program discounts including travel, language schools, childcare, and more
• Dependent care, healthcare, and commuter flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Discounts at local venues and businesse

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