Business Development Manager, Travel Advisor Channel

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Business Development Manager at EF Go Ahead Tours, focusing on growing the Travel Advisor channel through B2B sales strategies and relationship building. Responsible for activating and managing Travel Advisors to increase bookings and revenue.

Posted 7/10/2026full-timeBoston • California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $70,000 - $75,000 per yearWebsite

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About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Prospect, sign, and activate Travel Advisors and agency accounts across your territory.
Execute a territory plan: call cadences, agency visits, trade shows, consortium events, and virtual presentations.
Hit monthly and quarterly new-activation targets.
Reactivate lapsed advisors and convert them into consistent producers.
Own booking volume across your active advisor book; accountable to quarterly revenue quotas.
Serve as the primary EF Go Ahead Tours contact for top-producing advisors, delivering training, promotional support, and account-level plans that include co-op marketing.
Attend tradeshows, consortium events, and industry conferences.
Equip advisors with co-op materials and booking incentives in collaboration with Marketing.
Maintain accurate CRM data; track pipeline, activities, and booking attribution.
Report on KPIs weekly and, as a founding channel member, contribute to the advisor program playbook, portal requirements, and commission tier design.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of B2B sales or business development experience in the travel industry (tour operator, cruise line, Destination Management Company, or similar).
Demonstrated track record of prospecting and closing new accounts, not just managing existing relationships.
Deep familiarity with the Travel Advisor distribution channel: consortia (Virtuoso, Ensemble, Signature, Travel Leaders), host agencies (Fora, Nexion, Outside Agents), and independent agencies.
Self-starter who can build a territory from scratch with minimal day-to-day oversight, comfortable operating in ambiguity.
Strong presentation and communication skills, comfortable training a room of advisors or pitching a consortium executive.
Ability to travel up to 40%, including overnight stays and occasional domestic and international travel for company events.
Must have at least 4 years of relevant work experience or a 4-year degree.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Commitment to professional growth: robust monthly calendar of trainings and workshops
Four weeks paid vacation your first year, ten paid holidays, and two floating holidays
Exciting business travel opportunities
25% company match on your 401(k) contributions
Market-leading medical, dental and vision coverage, along with options for life and disability insurance, accident and hospital insurance, legal and pet insurance
Dependent care, healthcare and commuter Flex Spending Accounts (FSAs)
Access to fertility care and family-building support
Wellness benefits including a yearly fitness reimbursement
Frequent social and learning events, including access to our employee-run resource groups
Robust Employee Assistance Program
Tenure-based sabbatical eligibility
EF Product Discounts (discounts on travel, international language schools, Au Pair program and more)
Discounts at local venues and businesses

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Hard Skills & Tools

ProspectingClosing New AccountsRevenue QuotasCo-op MarketingKPI Reporting

Soft Skills

Self-StarterCommunication SkillsTraining Ability