NTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY
Operations Department of EF Educational Tours, Location: Luzern, Switzerland
The company
EF Education is the world’s largest private travel and educational organization. We are a multinational group with over 3,000 staff and 22,000 teachers in 50 countries. To date, nearly three million people have benefited from an EF program. Our head offices are located in Luzern, Boston, London, Amsterdam and Hong Kong. We are now looking for candidates interested in working in an international environment with excellent career opportunities.
The role:
As a Trainee at Educational Tours, you will support the purchasing and operations staff to achieve their goals of providing high-quality travel experiences for American and Canadian customers who travel the world with us. Areas of responsibility include: daily contact with suppliers offices across Europe and North America, market research, working with accounts payable and handling various travel bookings.
Your responsibilities will also include, but not be limited to:
• Managing the accounts payable of your area, as well as a budget
• Negotiating prices and securing bookings with hotels, restaurants, and tourist attractions
• Prospecting and identifying new business partners
• Settling accounts with your suppliers
• Quality-control
Requirements (All Candidates):
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Quick learner and a proven problem solver
• Enjoys working with numbers and Microsoft Excel
• Self driven and flexible
• Able to analyze and question processes and always come up with creative ways of improving them
• Nationality of one of the EU or EFTA countries
• Fluency in English and either French, Italian, German or Spanish
• Highly sociable and energetic, positive and with sense of humour!
EF is an equal opportunities employer. EF offers competitive salaries and a multicultural working environment.
The 6 months position will start in February, 2014.
Interested candidates should send an English CV and cover letter to: e.christodoulaki@ef.com
The recruitment process will start in October and candidates can expect to have an answer latest by December 10th.
If you are motivated by the prospect of an international career with a dynamic and forward-thinking company we want to hear from you!
