We are thrilled to share this fantastic opportunity for three high-calibre students to join our Commercial department on a 12-month placement. This placement is ideally suited to a student currently undertaking a bachelor’s or master’s degree with a required 12-month year in industry placement as part of your degree.
From day one, our placement students are fully integrated into Team Hilton and are involved in different aspects of the business. Our placements offer vast exposure and opportunities, such as the opportunity to network with senior executives, involvement in regional conferences and for some, international travel.
Based in our EMEA headquarters, Watford, you will be part of a cohort of 40+ Interns and take part in regular connect meetings, short assignments and feedback sessions designed to support your development. You will benefit from a subsidised restaurant, a games area and a free in-house gym.
You will play an active role in our continued success by contributing to the delivery of key objectives, as well as having ownership of your own project-based initiatives.
We have two placements in our Hilton Worldwide Sales Team and one in our Sales Enablement Team. If successful throughout the initial application stages, you will be invited to an interview for one of the below 12-month placements, which will be confirmed prior to the interview.
Hilton Worldwide Sales Placement
As the Hilton Worldwide Sales intern, you will support the various specialist teams that support Hilton’s most important corporate, meetings and events, leisure, entertainment, and airline clients based in this region.
You will be involved with a wide range of activities supporting our team including meetings, events, and leisure group enquiries from key clients for our hotels globally, providing management reports, maintaining and updating customer records, working on presentations, newsletters and social media. You will provide administrative and system inputting (Salesforce) support in the management of group opportunities from the managed portfolio of accounts.
The purpose of the placement is to support with the management of group, and transient opportunities received from a portfolio of Hilton Worldwide Sales managed accounts, who are looking to work with Hilton Worldwide properties and destinations. Working under the direction and guidance of the Hilton Worldwide Sales team, the primary focus of this role is to provide administrative and system inputting support to the Hilton Worldwide Sales team, which in turn will increase the productivity of existing relationships both at a customer and hotel level.
Activities will include:
Additional supportive activities may include:
Sales Enablement Team Placement
As the Executive Sales Enablement intern, you will be working with the Sales Enablement Centre of Excellence Team in supporting the managed hotel commercial teams in driving Commercial performance and supporting their personal development across EMEA.
You will be ensuring clear communication plans are actioned to deadline and key distribution lists and platforms are up to date with accurate and relevant assets. You will be integral in ensuring that communication tools are creative, engaging and meet deadlines. You will also be managing some key sales support projects through the year and will also have the opportunity to support the team in delivering national and potentially international events to deliver messages, initiatives and training to the hotel commercial teams.
Activities aligned to improving performance through sales tools and content:
Embarking on our year in industry programme is a transformative journey, encompassing a structured framework of learning and development activities. Here's what you can look forward to:
Hilton is one of the world's largest and fastest-growing hospitality companies, with 24 distinct brands and over 8,000 locations.
We have recently been ranked by our employees as #1 World's Best Workplace awarded by Great Place to Work & Fortune.
We value and celebrate our team members diversities and individualism and foster a culture of belonging across our organisation. Joining Hilton will give you the opportunity to contribute to our rich culture and give back to the community. Our Team Member Resource Groups in UK focus on Abilities, Generations, Pride, Women’s and Ethnic representation. You can find details on our Culture page.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We will ensure that qualified individuals with protected disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions of the role. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Please apply now, applications close on Sunday 3rd November 2024. We receive a volume of applications, therefore please bear with us whilst we process your application as we want to ensure that each applicant is given the consideration that they deserve.
If successful in your application, you may be invited to complete a digital one-way video interview and an online assessment, this allows us to learn more about you and whether this placement might be a great fit! So please do look out for our email updates and we encourage you to complete each next step as soon as possible. The EMEA Graduate Recruitment Team will then contact you and inform you of your outcome.
Good luck, we are looking forward to meeting you!
Hilton is proud to have just been voted #1 World’s Best Workplace!!!
The future of hospitality is bright at Hilton: a leading global hospitality company with a diverse portfolio of world-class brands. Dedicated to filling the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality, we have welcomed more than 3 billion guests for over a century. At Hilton we are proud to have an award-winning workplace culture, and we are consistently named among one of the World’s Best Workplaces.
We support the mental and physical wellbeing of all Team Members, so they can thrive, thanks to innovative programmes and benefits such as workplace flexibility, career growth and development, and our Go Hilton Team Member Travel discount program. We at Hilton prioritise understanding and integrating our Team Members’ unique perspectives and voices, along with those of our Guests, Owners, Suppliers and Partners, to cultivate a diverse and inclusive environment for all. Check out the Hilton Careers blog and Instagram to learn more about what it’s like to be on Team Hilton!
Our various 12-month placements aim to give talented students who have an interest in and a passion for hospitality a kick start to their career whilst also completing their undergraduate studies. From day one, our placement students are fully integrated into Team Hilton. Our placements offer vast exposure and opportunities, such as networking with senior executives, involvement in regional conferences and for some, international travel.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We are consistently endorsed by our employees as a Great Place to Work in all of the countries in which we operate, and for the last five years we have been voted by UK students as the most popular Graduate Recruiter in the Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism sector (TargetJobs Awards 2021).
To apply for this role and to find out more, please click on the apply button.
Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.