Yacht Consultant Development Associate

Yachtsworldwide; Yarmouth (ME); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

East Coast Yacht Sales seeks a Yacht Consultant Development Associate based in the Yarmouth, Maine area. The program prepares an experienced marine professional for yacht consulting, blending vessel knowledge with buyer/seller relations and service.

The path emphasizes hands-on boating experience, client-facing sales, and mentorship across our regional office network, with opportunities for a full-time yacht consultant role on successful completion.

Qualifications

• Extensive on-water experience in cruising, passagemaking, or yachting.
• Marine industry professional moving into yacht consulting.

Responsibilities

• Advise buyers and sellers on yacht purchases and sales.
• Build and maintain client relationships.
• Represent yacht brands at major boat shows.

Job description

The Yacht Consultant Development Associate role with East Coast Yacht Sales is based in Yarmouth, Maine . East Coast Yacht Sales is a marine sales and services company with offices from Maine through Maryland. The position prepares an experienced marine industry professional for yacht consulting work. The role combines practical boating knowledge with client-facing sales and service. Applicants need extensive on-water experience in cruising, passagemaking, or yachting. Successful participants may receive a full-time Yacht Consultant position at an agreed East Coast Yacht Sales office. The company places the role within a broad range of marine jobs .

The development route is for a marine professional moving into yacht consulting. The work connects vessel knowledge with buyer and seller relationships. The role is based in the coastal Maine office network and centers on practical experience from the water. East Coast Yacht Sales has offices in the Yarmouth area as well as other East Coast boating markets.

Applications are directed to the employer's named contact, with marine experience and on-water background forming the central qualification. Candidates settle whether a transition into yacht consulting matches their work history before contacting the company.

The Yacht Broker Development Program provides at least one year of hands-on training and mentorship. The program covers client relations, marketing, contracts, closings, and operations, giving the development role a defined path through the commercial side of yacht sales.

Training connects practical boating experience with the work behind a completed transaction. Client relations address the needs of buyers and sellers, while marketing, contracts, closings, and operations cover the stages that move a vessel from initial interest toward completion.

Client Advice And Boat Sales

A Yacht Consultant advises clients who are buying or selling boats and brings practical yachting knowledge to those conversations. The consultant builds client relationships, represents yacht brands, and attends major East Coast boat shows.

• Advising buyers and sellers on boat purchases and sales
• Applying practical yachting knowledge to client conversations
• Building and maintaining client relationships
• Supporting the company's presence at major boat shows

The work joins product knowledge to clear communication. A consultant needs to explain vessel characteristics, respond to client questions, and keep sales activity connected to contracts, closing work, and operational follow-through.

Marine Experience And Professional Standards

The development route names cruising, passagemaking, and yachting as relevant forms of on-water experience. That background gives a candidate working knowledge of boat handling, trip planning, equipment, and the practical questions that shape a buyer's decision.

Yacht brokerage also carries professional and ethical duties in transactions. The profession includes more than 2,000 members in the International Yacht Brokers Association , and the association dates to 1987. A candidate moving into consulting benefits from accurate product information, careful communication, and disciplined transaction follow-through.

East Coast Yacht Sales has more than 40 years of experience in marine sales and services. The company is the longest-standing Axopar dealer in the United States and represents Axopar, Targa, and J/Boats.

The company operates in Belfast, Camden, and Yarmouth in Maine, along with Manchester, Massachusetts; Portsmouth, Rhode Island; Mystic, Connecticut; Huntington, New York; Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey; and Annapolis, Maryland. This network gives a developing consultant several regional office settings tied to active boating communities.

The role is intended for an experienced marine industry professional with extensive time on the water. Cruising, passagemaking, yachting, client relations, and transaction experience give the application a direct connection to the program's stated work.

East Coast Yacht Sales showcases its fleet at the Newport International Yacht Show, the Annapolis Powerboat Show, and Boot Düsseldorf. The company serves thousands of boaters through its regional sales and service operation.

Those boat-show appearances connect the Yarmouth development route with the wider product and client work of East Coast Yacht Sales. The company's customer base gives the consultant's training a practical setting among active boat owners and marine professionals.