Business Global Sales Support - 12 Month Placement 2025 (Glasgow)

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Business Global Sales Support - 12 Month Placement 2025 (Glasgow)

We are thrilled to share this fantastic opportunity for an intern to join our Hilton Worldwide Sales (HWS) support team on a 12-month placement, specifically in the Global Request for Proposal (RFP) team. In this role you will support the team as they focus on evolving into the most sought-after partners in hospitality by freeing up seller's time, driving efficiency and governance to maximize performance and achieve results. This placement is ideally suited to a student currently undertaking a bachelor’s or master’s degree with a passion for finding efficiencies and an interest in Sales. 

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. 

Based in our Glasgow office, 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 centrally-located office, subsidized breakfasts, and regular social activities.  

The Opportunity 

The HWS Support Team works alongside Hilton Worldwide Sales to ensure that the business needs of sales, hotels and customers are being met. HWS Support strives to be the best-in-class sales support organization in hospitality by enabling the sales process, driving efficiency & automation and governance to maximize customer performance and results globally. 

We are looking for an enthusiastic, curious, and innovative intern with a dream to think beyond the day-to-day and envision what could be.  

As an intern you will be an integral part of the Request for Proposal (RFP) team within HWS Support, coordinating the administrative, auditing, reporting, lead management, and RFP management efforts and processes of Hilton Sales’ teams. You will be working alongside the Automation team who are a key component of HWS Support. They work to identify and create automation solutions for process efficiencies and workarounds to system limitations, with an aim to increase speed to market and reduce the level of manual workload.  

Some of the more specific responsibilities you may undertake are detailed as follows:  

• Help deliver enhanced/ new processes and technical solutions to meet the needs of the business as part of the yearly HWS Global Strategy review. 
• Partner with HWS for the launch of globally managed transient RFPs, including renegotiations, client decisions and audits.
• Review account requirements/strategies and identify any potential issues and risks and present alternatives for alleviating or resolving them.
• Work as the dedicated follow-up for accounts and account owners, as well as support for both customers and hotels.
• Support the creation of training programs and the management of materials for HWS and Hotel Partners 
• Represent HWS and RFP Support where required to grow Internal and External Customer relationships.
• Strong problem prevention, solving and resolution skills from both analytical and conceptual opportunities.
• Have project coordination and analytical skills.
• You will immerse and familiarize yourself with processes across all segments and brands with HWS Support, in addition to RFP Transient also Project, Leisure, Perm, Government and Consortia
• Effectively manage projects by developing project plans, ensuring timely project execution of key results, working with cross-functional project team, and driving partner alignment

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.

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. 
• Must be studying a degree with a focus on Hospitality, Business/Marketing management or Technology. 
• Must be able to start on the 7th 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.  
• A positive, can-do attitude. 
• A candidate with good working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JSON, and a pro-active and organised approach is highly sought after for this role. 
• Exceptional attention to detail is a must for this role.   

Selection Process  

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!

About Hilton

BREAKING NEWS!! 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). 

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