Operations Trainee - Specialized team

EF Educational Tours is currently looking for an energetic and enthusiastic professional, for the position of Operations Trainee in the Specialized team, to join our Operations department at our Headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.

As an Operations Trainee, you will be helping our customers travel throughout Europe by working with our team to source, allocate and administer cost-effective and quality activities and meals for our customers.

Responsibilities Include But Are Not Limited To

• Assist with group bookings for business partners, museums, activities and restaurants across Europe
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external suppliers
• Optimize and coordinate group logistics with external vendors
• Ensure all supplier safety checks are processed and administered effectively
• Connect on and collect info of the supply market by consistently networking and researching within the industry, as well as gaining market insight into evolving trends in spend categories and geographies with a focus on bringing innovation to EF
• Support the team with on-tour emergencies and last-minute bookings
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Passion for educational travel
• Forward thinking attitude whilst actively engaged to support day-to-day sourcing priorities
• Analytical mindset with a strong attentiveness to detail
• Solution oriented, flexible, innovative and driven
• Agile and open-minded team player
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Strong communication, social skills and cultural awareness
• Proficient knowledge in Excel
• Fluency in English along with one or a combination of the following languages is required: French, Italian, Greek, German, and/or Spanish
  
  

To be considered for this role, applicants must either be Swiss citizens, EU-nationals or have the

legal right to live and work in Switzerland.

Application

Please submit your CV & Cover Letter in English online. We will screen applications on a rolling

basis.

Preferable Start date: Mid-January/1st February 2024

Duration: 8-9 months

Salary: CHF 40.000/yearly

Working at EF

• You will have the opportunity to work within an innovative, engaging and multicultural environment
• Have the opportunity to build strong and lasting business relationships
• Have the opportunity in developing your career within EF and our new working location in Zurich
  
  

Benefits

EF offers a wide range of benefits ready for our team members to enjoy during weekends, after

work and with friends & family, including

• Discounted passes to local destinations and tourist hot-spots such as mt. Titlis or Kunsthaus Zurich.
• Full reimbursement of the SBB ‘halb-tax’ travel card, covering country-wide public transportation.
• Free membership for our newly built gym or get involved with our variety of sports teams.
• Seasonal and monthly office events including holiday parties, ski trips and pay-day happy hours.
• Discounts on a wide range of local restaurants, shops, hotel stays and EF products.
• 15% off in-house child care service (more info. available).
  
  

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, Shanghai, Stockholm, Zürich, and more. Learn more at

https://www.ef.com