WorldStrides
Business Development Executive
780 Brewster Ave Le Sud- ouest Montreal QC H4C 2K1 · Contract
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About the role
- Company Introduction WorldStrides is the global leader in educational travel and experiential learning.
- WorldStrides offers experiential learning programs in educational travel, performing arts, language immersion, career exploration, service-learning, study abroad, and sports.
- Each of these experiences helps students to see beyond the classroom and to see the world - and themselves - in new ways.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for building and managing the sales pipeline of prospective new clients.
- Actively pursuing and performing client lead generation, personal meeting, cold calling, email marketing, lead nurturing, lead validating, and lead closing.
- Build accurate quotes and accurately timed itineraries
- Do a rigorous follow-up and maintain constant and pleasant communication with potential clients
- Perform analysis of our database in order to find potential sales opportunities
Requirements
- Excellent communication skills, including ability to write and speak English and French at a business level
- College or university degree in Tourism management, Business or related program
- Ability to multi-task, adapt to change and "think outside the box."
- Valid driver's license
- Organized, self-motivated and goal-orientated
- High energy with a desire to meet results in a customer-centric, fast-paced environment
- Experience in the educational travel industry is a plus
- Work Perks:
- Fun & driven environment.
- Employer-paid health (including dental, drug benefit, extended health care, and travel benefits), telehealth, life, accidental death and dismemberment, and short-term disability insurance coverage. Employee-paid long-term disability. With a buy-up option for life and accidental death and dismemberment, and critical illness
- Retirement plan options (Registered Retirement Savings Plan and Spousal Retirement Savings Plan) and profit-sharing Deferred Profit-Sharing Plan (DPSP)
- 1 paid volunteer day & 25 PTO days to start - accrue up to 28 over 3 years, 4 mental health days, and 5 bereavement days.
- Tuition reimbursement up to five thousand, two hundred fifty dollars annually or one thousand dollars towards professional certification annually.
Nice to have
- Experience in sales with proven ability to meet/exceed sales targets is a plus
Compensation
- The company was founded in 1967 to provide middle school travel programs to Washington, D.C. and has grown to provide a wide range of programs for more than half a million students annually to over 100 countries around the world.
Benefits
- Employer-paid health (including dental, drug benefit, extended health care, and travel benefits), telehealth, life, accidental death and dismemberment, and short-term disability insurance coverage.
- Employee-paid long-term disability.
- Encouraged participation in our Employee Resource Groups and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion council.
- Our commitment is fueled by the passion of our team members and partners to make experiential learning accessible, while also being socially, environmentally, and ethically responsible.
- Flexible work schedule providing on-site, remote, and virtual office opportunities.
Visa & Work Authorization
- WorldStrides will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States.
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