Role: Tour Consultant
Division: EF Soccer Tours for Girls
Start date: January 2025
Location: Boston, in office-hybrid
EF Tours for Girls is expanding the marketplace to include cohorts of girls who will benefit by traveling abroad together. Our vision is for girls to break free from societal constraints, discover their own strengths, and foster a sense of independence, inspiring them to become fearless leaders and explorers for tomorrow. We believe that girls who travel the world, become the women who change it.
We are expanding into Girls Soccer. We are looking for candidates who can authentically serve the community based on their deep love for the game and experience in the club soccer world.
The Role:
The ideal candidate will concentrate their attention on developing key markets in the Girls’ Soccer community. You are a strong salesperson who is comfortable in developing key relationships to build long-term travel programs. In addition, this role will train others on the ideal method for approaching the soccer community. This person is strategic, goal driven, and committed to helping Tours for Girls grow.
Who you are:
- 1+ years of sales experience – you have a proven track record of sales success
- Entrepreneurial – you love finding creative solutions to win people over
- Driven – you can think outside the box to tackle obstacles with a creative lens
- Relationship focused – you understand that the relationships you build today will drive future sales and referrals.
- Strong communicator – you're confident, persuasive, and motivating
- Polished professional – you can excel in a room selling, quickly building connection and establishing trust.
- Strategic – you enjoy considering all the options, selecting the best plan forward then executing on that plan, pivoting along the way if necessary
- Big picture thinker – you see the possibility and opportunity where others only see challenges
- Fearless – you like trying new things and are always up to for a challenge
- Youth Soccer Experience necessary – you understand the insider language of soccer and can apply this to the best tour experience
- Team Oriented – believe that team culture is a make-or-break attribute; and will participate in activities to strengthen bonds with individuals on the team.
Responsibilities:
- 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
- Proactively manage qualified pipeline while simultaneously closing sales and hitting goals
- Leveraging connections and referrals at all levels to drive business deeper and wider in your market
- Partnering with customer success to ensure exceptional service to create a sustainable travel program
- Strategically mapping out a long-term regional growth plant to contribute to the growth
- Point person for on-the-ground partners, operations and market development
- Train the team on the proven sales strategies to reaching the soccer market
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. In addition, you can expect:
- Paid International Business Travel opportunities
- Eligibility for our Workplace Flexibility Program: This role is based in our beautiful downtown office, with up to two days working from home per week with our pilot hybrid work model
- Commitment to professional growth: robust monthly calendar of trainings and workshops
- Four weeks paid vacation your first year, ten paid holidays, and two floating holidays
- 25% company match on your 401(k) contributions
- Market-leading medical, dental and vision coverage, along with options for life and disability insurance, legal and pet insurance
- Dependent care, healthcare and commuter Flex Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- Access to fertility care and family-building support
- Wellness benefits and a yearly fitness reimbursement
- Frequent social and learning events, including access to our employee-run “EFinity” groups
- Robust Employee Assistance Program
- Tenure-based sabbatical eligibility
- EF Product Discounts (discounts on travel, international language schools, childcare with our Au Pair product and more)
- Discounts at local venues and businesses
- Compensation: The base salary for this role starts at $55,000 annually commensurate with experience, plus starting bonus of $15,000 on-target-earning (commensurate with experience) based on performance with uncapped coverage potential
About EF Education First
Some companies are in the Business of Technology. Others are in the Business of Finance…Sports…Or Soft Drinks. At EF, we’re in a different kind of business. One that’s a little less tangible, and a lot more important. We’re in the Business of Understanding. For over 60 years we’ve been the leader in international educational programs and culturally rich travel experiences with the power to change how people think, feel and act. The programs we deliver open the world to students and travelers in ways that challenge biases, overcome barriers, and pave the way for a more understanding world. You’ll find us working across more than 50 countries, with offices in some of the world’s greatest cities - each one filled with smart, driven people who push each other to be better every day. And yes, we have technology, we have finance, we even have sports with our own professional cycling team. But it’s what we do with it – building greater understanding, breaking down barriers, and creating a better world…that makes all the difference.