Regional Trip Consultant

Regional Trip Consultant
Internally titled: Regional Tour Consultant, Groups
EF Go Ahead Tours
Cambridge, MA

Start Date: February 4th, 2025
Application Deadline: January 3rd, 2025

**For consideration, applicants must be living in the state of MA or within commutable distance to our Boston, MA office. This role is hybrid, 3 days on-site per week and 2 days remote.

For over 30 years, EF Go Ahead Tours has guided adult travelers across the globe via carefully crafted group travel itineraries. Our travelers range from young professionals to retirees, solo travelers to entire families, travel enthusiasts to those stepping off their first flight. We believe the best way to learn about the world is to experience it and every day we come to work hoping to help as many people as possible do just that.

The Role:

In this role, you will oversee a geographical region in the United States, working to grow and develop it like it’s your own business. We are looking for ambitious, high performing, self-motivated individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit. To achieve success, you will be responsible for qualifying, following up with, and converting sales leads to customers via outbound phone sales. You’ll drive a mission of sustainable and scalable growth, work on business challenges, and ultimately build a customer base that is loyal and will want to travel with us year after year. Internally, we are looking to create a world class sales team motivated by learning, professional growth, and consistently hitting key sales metrics.

You will be part of our Sales Development Program where you will receive one-on-one personal attention designed to promote professional growth and understanding of the business. Your goal will be to develop your own book of business, follow up on warm leads and maintain a healthy pipeline. You will help our customers see the world and take pride in being part of an organization that is shaping the global perspective of travelers.

A Successful Regional Tour Consultant Will Be:

• Influential and can intrinsically motivate others (persuade vs. tell)
• A good listener with strong communication and collaboration skills
• Self-starter who desires to take responsibility for their professional and regional growth
• Confident and decisive when faced with a challenge
• Able to take feedback and implement it quickly
• A problem-solver who has the ability to utilize curiosity and apply what they’ve discovered to create an effective solution
• An adaptable and highly motivated team player and individual contributor

Why You’ll Love Working Here: Perks, Benefits and Earning Potential

Work in our North American Headquarters where you’ll enjoy comprehensive professional development, frequent social programming, our employee-run “EFinity” groups, and much more!

In addition, you can expect:

• Paid International Business Travel opportunities
• Eligibility for our Workplace Flexibility Program: our pilot hybrid work model with up to two days working from home per week.
• Commitment to professional growth: robust monthly calendar of trainings, workshops and TED Talk style sessions
• Four weeks paid vacation your first year, ten paid holidays, and two floating holidays
• 25% company match on your 401(k)
• Market-leading 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 Product Discounts (discounts on travel, international language schools, childcare with our Au Pair product and more)
• Dependent care, healthcare and commuter Flex Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Discounts at local venues and businesses
• Compensation: First-year Tour Consultants have an on-target earning potential of $70,000 (base salary starting at $50,000 and $20,000 bonus potential). In addition, there is uncapped bonus for exceeding sales goals. You are eligible for a promotion to Senior Tour Consultant after 2 years of successfully exceeding goals and excellent performance with an increased OTE of $95,000 ($65,000 base and $30,000 bonus potential). Full comp plan details, and future earning potential, will be reviewed during the interview process.

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 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 identity/expression, sexual orientation, age, religion, ability, parental status, 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://ef.com