2025 Sales Enablement Placement
We are thrilled to share this fantastic opportunity for a high-calibre student to join our Commercial department in our Sales Enablement team 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 50+ 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.
The Opportunity
As our Executive Sales Enablement Intern, you will collaborate with the Sales Enablement Centre of Excellence Team to support managed hotel commercial teams across EMEA. Your focus will be on driving commercial performance and fostering the personal development of team members.
Key responsibilities include ensuring clear, effective communication plans are executed on time and that distribution lists and platforms are consistently updated with accurate, relevant assets. You'll also play a critical role in developing creative and engaging communication tools while managing key sales support projects throughout the year. Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to assist in organizing national and international events, delivering messages, initiatives, and training to hotel commercial teams.
Responsibilities
Improving Performance Through Sales Tools and Content
- Manage internal platforms, communication outlets, and distribution lists.
- Develop, support, and deliver resources and tools to help property sales and GM&E team members optimize performance and professional growth.
- Support customer engagement initiatives, enhancing how hotels collaborate with internal partners (e.g., Hilton Worldwide Sales) and external clients
- Provide performance analysis and reporting for regional and hotel-level commercial teams, therefore, a suitable candidate requires strong Excel skills (pivot tables, data imports, formulas, formatting).
- Conduct and coordinate mystery shopper inquiries to monitor enquiry-handling performance.
- Create and distribute original content, including video editing and advanced PowerPoint designs (e.g., tables, charts) while staying up to date with social media trends and platform capabilities.
Optimizing Planning Processes
- Maintain content on internal platforms for the Centre of Excellence Sales Operations Team, ensuring the delivery of relevant and engaging materials.
- Oversee and update the calendar of activities for EMEA Sales and GM&E initiatives.
- Manage and activate key distribution lists effectively.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with teams across various functions, such as Brand Performance Support, Training, Marketing, Regional Commercial Support, and Sales Leaders, to align and ensure project relevance.
- Leverage opportunities to network and gain insight into multiple departments across Hilton, including Operations, Hotel and Regional sales teams, Hilton Worldwide Sales, Marketing, Analytics, Learning and Development, Brand Performance, and more.
Why choose us?
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:
- Learning and Development: Interns have access to Hilton University to enhance their skills and contribute meaningfully to ongoing projects.
- Networking: Our interns can connect with professionals across the business, paving the way for valuable relationships.
- Feedback and Growth: Regular evaluations and feedback sessions will ensure our interns receive guidance and an opportunity to continually improve.
- Cross-Exposure: Opportunity to gain insight into another function.
- Hilton Perks: Including our Go Hilton TM Travel Program, which provides you with access to heavily reduced hotel room rates for you, your family & friends.
- Salary & Benefits: £24,000 Gross PA & private healthcare.
- Hybrid working: Our Sales Enablement team operates under a hybrid working model. As an intern in this team, you will be required to work from the office at least one day per week. However, you are welcome and encouraged to visit the office on additional days if you wish.
What are we looking for?
- First and foremost, Hilton is a hospitality company, and we are looking for individuals with a strong sense of alignment to our culture and values.
- Must be a current Bachelor’s or Master’s student with a required 12-month year in industry placement as part of your degree, Hospitality or Business Management related degrees are preferred but not essential.
- Must be able to start on the 7th of July 2025, to work full-time for a 12-month duration.
- Must be eligible to work in the UK. If you are a non-UK national, without EU Settled or Pre-Settled Status then you will need to be studying at a UK university to be eligible to undertake a placement here.
- Must be fluent in English (speaking, reading and writing).
- The ideal candidate will have at least an interest in hotel/hospitality industry if not relevant to your degree or any work experience you might have.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and presentation skills.
- Exceptionally organised and comfortable prioritising and working to deadlines.
- Effective planning & project management skills and capabilities.
- General commercial awareness and understanding or drivers of commercial performance.
- Strong communication skills: presentations, written and public speaking.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills (pivot tables, data imports, formulas, formatting).
- Flexible with the ability to travel, if required (c. Maximum 10% travel).
What is it like working for Hilton?
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 Hospitality company to work for 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.
Selection Process
Please apply now, applications are due to close on Friday the 14th of February 2025. However, we will be recruiting on a rolling basis and therefore may close applications earlier than this.
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!