Country Product Manager

EF Italy is looking for our next Country Product Manager based in Milan. Are you a traveler, innovator, doer and thinker? Do you believe education can open the world? Are you a positive, motivated, flexible and community-building person? If so, this might be the role for you!

Your Responsibilities

As a Country Product Manager, your main objective is to drive sales of our programs through tele sales and personal consultations with our customers to grow the market. You will be responsible for planning, coordinating and developing sales and marketing strategies, including lead generation strategies and CRM drive. Your role includes development of sales staff including recruitment, training plan, tracking of achievement and performance reviews.

You will have complete ownership of all other relevant business aspects and expansion 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.

Skills

The position requires you to have a strong analytical skill, excellent communication, and interpersonal skills. You need to possess the ability to prioritize and be efficient - meet challenging deadlines and perform under pressure. This position will require a passion for sales, dedication, hard work, the ability to multi-task efficiently and to perform in a fast-moving highly results-oriented environment.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum a Bachelor’s degree, preferably a Master’s degree
• 3-5 years of professional experience - sales, marketing or consulting
• Proven leadership experience and skills (successfully leading a team of minimum 10 people)
• Fluent Italian and English level both oral and written
• Experience in sales (B2C or B2B) and a great interest in coaching other sales people
• Working/Studying abroad experience valued
  
  

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 more than 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, age, religion, caste, parental status, identity, 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, Stockholm, Zürich, and more. Learn more at https://www.ef.com.