Country Product Manager

Country Product Manager
- As a Country Product Manager, you will be part of something special. What you will do each day matters, as we believe that cultural exchange makes the world a better place. Our students travel to another country to live its daily life and experience its culture from the inside — not as a tourist, but as a local. Though the exchange experience only lasts a year, the extended families we create last forever.
- As a Country Product Manager, you will have complete ownership of all other relevant business KPIs related to the program, with a strong focus on business development and lead generation. The role includes full ownership of direct sales in the country and to reach sales targets on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.
- Are you an ambitious and positive person who wants to make a difference with your work? Do you love the challenges of sales and do you enjoy achieving goals? If yes, then we would like to get to know you
- We are looking for a new Country Product Manager for EF High School Exchange Year to join our team in Zürich as of April 1st or upon agreement.
- What do we offer?
- Responsibility. Trust. Fun. Team spirit. Events. Career.
- A dynamic and international working environment with flat hierarchies and career opportunities in Switzerland and abroad.
- A lot of personal responsibility as well as trust and freedom to be yourself, to contribute and realise your own ideas.
- Training for new employees in the EF High School Exchange Year programme within the first 6 months
- Twice-yearly Country Product Management Meetings to collaborate with colleagues from other global markets
- National and international sales meetings, kick-offs and leadership development programmes in collaboration with Ashridge Executive Business School to network and develop personally and professionally
- Regular office events, team outings and after-works to celebrate successes, deepen friendships, promote team spirit and simply have fun.
- Free use of the gym in our Zurich office
- What will you be doing?
- Develop a strategy. Achieve goals. Lead a team. Realise dreams.
- Responsibility for the ‘EF High School Exchange Year’ programme in the German-speaking Swiss market: strategy development and implementation to achieve sales and growth targets (weekly, monthly, annually)
- Recruitment, management, coaching and development of three employees in Zurich
- Budget planning and independent management to achieve annual targets.
- Managing the entire customer lifecycle and providing excellent customer service and support before and after the sale
- Increase brand awareness and generate leads through targeted marketing activities - social media, trade shows, school visits, partnerships, etc.
- Collaborate with teams across the organisation to ensure expectations set during the sales process are met
- Who are you?
- Entrepreneur. Innovator. Maker. Communicator. Leader.
- Ambitious, competitive and communicative personality with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and good business acumen.
- Analytical and solution-orientated thinking combined with a structured and efficient way of working.
- Experience with a track record in sales and/or business development as well as strong leadership skills that you can demonstrate.
- Business fluent in German and very good knowledge of English.
- University degree (Uni/FH/HF) or career changer with relevant professional experience.
- Who are we?
- Authentic. Positive. Easy-going. International. Ambitious.
- EF Education First is an international education provider. We build bridges, facilitate unique experiences and live our mission of ‘Opening the World through Education’.
- For over 55 years, we have helped millions of people discover new places and cultures, have unique experiences and grow personally.
- In our more than 500 offices in over 50 countries with headquarters in Boston, London, Zurich and Hong Kong, we live the global impact.
- We find solutions and have fun doing it. We encourage personal ambition and are committed to global initiatives such as ‘Hello Zero’, where we offset all the CO2 we have produced since the company was founded.