Corporate Food & Drink Internship - Dubai

We are thrilled to share this fantastic opportunity for three high-calibre local graduates (who have graduated or will be graduating with a Bachelor’s or Master's degree between February 2025 and August 2026) to join our Corporate Food & Drink team on a 12-month internship. From day one, our interns are fully integrated into Team Hilton and are involved in different aspects of the business. Our internships offer vast exposure and opportunities, such as the opportunity to network with senior executives, and for some, international travel, and involvement in regional conferences.  
 
Based in our Dubai Area Office, you will also benefit from an open space office, located in Internet City, close to the Dubai Marina and The Palm Jumeirah and other interesting locations in Dubai. We have approximately 214 team members based in the Dubai office, we are a social and fun bunch of people driving the business for the MEA region from here. 

The Opportunities

We have three internship opportunities available within our corporate F&D teams. Find out a bit about each team below. You will be asked to specify your preference of role at a later stage of the application process. 

Corporate Food & Drink Strategy Development Intern
You will play an active role in our continued success by providing a high level of project management support to the F&D leadership team and managing the schedule and administrative requirements of the F&D team to a high standard.

As the Hilton F&D Strategy Development intern, your activities will include:

• Supporting the F&D leadership team with project management.
• Acting as the F&D Lead on our ESG Corporate Initiatives (Dubai Office).
• Produce professional presentations for the F&D leadership senior team.
• Support our Senior Directors to Project Manager complex initiatives and Playbook creation.
• Manage F&D meetings, schedule, and agenda to maximise the attendance and quality of discussions with appropriate action minutes taken and following up to ensure action.

Food and Drink Marketing & PR Intern
You will play an active role in our continued success by providing a high level of project management support to the Senior Director of F&D Marketing & PR EMEA. 
As the Hilton F&D Marketing intern, your activities will include: 

• Supporting the Senior Director of F&D Marketing & PR with project management. 
• Working with the social media agency that runs @Taste of Hilton to manage the content calendar. 
• Working directly with the graphic design agency on retainer to support the EMEA F&D team. 
• Managing the internal communications calendar. 
• Helping to produce the professional presentations for the F&D leadership senior team. 
• Supporting F&D team with playbook and commercial tool creation. 
• Manage F&D marcomms centric meetings, schedule, and agenda to maximise the attendance and quality of discussions with appropriate action minutes taken and following up to ensure action.  

Food and Drink Operations & Development Intern
You will play an active role in our continued success by providing a high level of project management support to the MEA F&D leadership team and managing the schedule and administrative requirements of the F&D team to a high standard.
As the Hilton F&D Operations & Development Intern MEA, your activities will include:

• Supporting the F&D leadership team with project management.
• Consolidate and analyse data for regional reporting supporting key strategic initiatives.
• Produce professional presentations for the F&D leadership team.
• Support key hotel opening strategic requirements and development.
• Support our Directors to Project Manager complex initiatives, openings and playbook creation.
• Manage F&D meetings, schedule, and agenda to maximise the attendance and quality of discussions with appropriate action minutes taken and following up to ensure action.

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 and other learning resources to enhance their skills and contribute meaningfully to ongoing projects. 
Networking: Our programme offers our interns the chance to 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.  
Competitive Salary & Benefits: 60,000 AED PA, housing allowance 48,000 AED PA & transport allowance 6,000 AED PA. 
Location: Area Office, Dubai. Our placements are office based with flexibility offered across some teams.

What are we looking for? 
As with any job, we do have certain criteria that you will need to meet to be considered for one of these highly sought-after opportunities. These are detailed as follows;   

• 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. 
• You must have graduated, or be due to graduate, with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree between February 2025 and August 2026.
• F&D Marketing & PR prefer a Marketing related degree; however, we will consider applicants from other disciplines provided you are able to demonstrate a strong desire to progress a career in this area. 
• F&D Operations and F&D Strategy prefer a Hospitality or Business Management related degree; however, we will consider applicants from other disciplines provided you are able to demonstrate a strong desire to progress a career in this area. 
• You must be able to undertake a full-time (40 hours per week) 12-month graduate internship, from 1st of September 2026.   
• Must be eligible to work full-time in the UAE without company sponsorship. 
• Have a passion for the Food & Drink industry.
• Good knowledge of using Social Media.
• Have a positive and dynamic character.
• Exceptionally organised and comfortable prioritising tasks and working to deadlines.
• Effective planning & project management skills and capabilities.
• Sound knowledge of job-related information technology (i.e., Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
• Have a passion for content creation.

What is it like working for Hilton?
Hilton is one of the largest and fastest-growing hospitality companies in the world, with more than 9,000+ properties in 141 countries and territories. In the 100+ years since our founding, we have defined the hospitality industry and established a portfolio of 25 world-class brands, including our flagship Hilton Hotels & Resorts brand, which is the most recognised hotel brand in the world.

We have an incredible culture which makes Hilton a great place to work and recently ranked the #1 World's Best Workplace.

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 Dubai focus on Abilities, 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 with 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 close on Sunday 12th April 2026. Our internships are extremely popular, 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’ll 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 internship 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!