Trainee, Operations Department
Division:

Go Ahead Tours
Location:

Lucerne, Switzerland
The Role

As a Go Ahead Tours Trainee, you will support Go Ahead’s 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 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 or German

• Highly sociable and energetic, positive and with sense of humor!

EF is an equal opportunities employer. EF offers competitive salaries and a multicultural working environment.

This position will start on November 1, 2010. Interested candidates should send an English CV and cover letter to Juan.Gonzalez@goaheadtours.com.