Business Developer - Do you dream of an exciting role where your work will have a real impact on people’s futures? - EF Language Abroad is looking for a strategic, customer-centric, and data-driven Business Developer to elevate our students' journey to the next level! - As a Business Developer you will identify and build new business opportunities with schools, universities and companies, industry associations and academic institutions to generate more partnerships, more names/leads and help the business grow. You will also be expected to organize events and lead our referral/loyalty program.You will be asked to reach weekly and monthly generation and sales targets and other predefined KPIs. - Your main responsibilities are: - Opening new doors and finding business opportunities. Self-expression and communications skills in every environment. - Negotiating / Listening / Identifying win-win solutions / and having an entrepreneurial spirit. - Meeting goals and working under pressure. - Being organized and fulfilling acquired commitments with partners/customers. - Identify potential partners to work with. - Generate leads and cold call prospective customers/businesses. - Meet with customers/clients face to face, zoom or over the phone. - Create and execute in a timely manner an activity plan, by participating in events that increase customers’ interest and boost sales. Stands, exhibitions, fairs, running presentations are part of those events. - Think strategically - seeing the bigger picture and setting goals and objectives to develop and improve the business. - Plan and execute the activities you will run daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly with the help of your direct marketing and sales teams within EF Colombia. - Requirements: - A Bachelor´s degree in Business, Industrial Engineering, Marketing, or International Affairs. - Preferable but not mandatory: having studied/worked/lived abroad. - Fluency in Spanish and English is important for this role due to our international scope. - Relevant or equivalent experience with marketing and/or sales. - Preferable but not mandatory: Experience in event planning and execution - 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 hundreds of 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. - #LI-AJ3