Business & Commercial Placement Scheme 2025

Job Details

Business & Commercial Placement Scheme 2025

About Our Offer

• Starting salary for the role is £23,550 per annum with fantastic progression and incremental roll off salary (pay review pending)
• Welcome days & introductions
• Structured induction plan
• Direct line manager support plus support from the placement scheme team
• 2 x placement projects throughout the year (1x charity, 1x business)
• Contact with business directors – through welcome meetings and project presentations
• Monthly team meetings
• Shadowing in other departments
• Hangar Tour
• Buddies – every new placement gets a buddy from around the business
• Mentors – we provide a mentor to all of our placements
• Investment in your development through workshops & the Tour Operator Development Programme
• Social events
• Support the next year’s placement intake
• Blog and options for content creation – there is the opportunity for you to be creative with content creation whilst on their year here

Benefits

• Fantastic holiday benefits including discounts, staff rates and late seats
• 26 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Experience working for a major global business in an award-winning placement scheme
• Employment opportunities post placement
• Travel opportunities
• Health and Wellbeing support in five key areas – Financial, Health, Social, Community and Career
• Community day – time to spend working at a local charity or community project
• Be Rewarded Platform – savings at high street shops, on days out and more
• All the employee networks

About the Job

During your placement, you’ll spend 12 months in either the Trading, First Choice or Product teams. Throughout the recruitment process, you’ll be considered for all roles, and you’ll have the opportunity to indicate your preference if you have one – we will then consider this alongside your strengths to find the right role for you.

In all roles, you’ll gain a full insight into our Commercial function, supporting a portfolio of destinations and making key commercial decisions which will drive forward the strategy, profitability and success of TUI.

Trading (Beach or Cruise)

• Ensuring our products are available to our customers at the right price, at the right time, in line with demand and competition
• Focus on either Cruise or Beach holidays, identifying the best way to sell our beds and aircraft seats to maximise profits
• Responsibility for a number of cruise ships or holiday destinations, enhancing both flight and cabin/hotel performance. You do this by reviewing and analysing sales trends, while manipulating our yield management system to make effective recommendations to deliver your trading strategy in line with market conditions – think stock market, but for holidays!
• You monitor and react to demand in the competitive holiday market, taking relevant pricing actions to maximise opportunities and overcome any barriers to sale

First Choice

• Contribute to the delivery of a bold new strategy for First Choice as part of a fun, dynamic and entrepreneurial team
• Be responsible for analysing sales trends across a range of holiday products (hotels, flights, transfers, ancillaries, experiences) to optimise commercial performance in line with the First Choice strategy. You will balance commercial and customer considerations to ensure commercial performance is achieved in line with the First Choice brand values
• You will monitor and report on competitor activity, analysing trends and identifying commercial opportunities for First Choice
• You will build strong relationships with commercial, distribution and content stakeholders across TUI to overcome any barriers to sale and ensure commercial targets are met

Product

• As a Product Executive you will support the Product Team to drive the growth of our holidays. You will have a thorough understanding of our key competitors, our customers and the commercial performance of our holidays, understanding and ensuring the accuracy of our cost base to set the right price point at season launch
• You will support in developing pricing strategies, accurately implementing them to ensure our holidays are priced correctly to hit target margins that maximise profit and revenue
• You will track and analyse sales and margins in close liaison with trading teams
• You will use statistics on web share and other available information to review and challenge web content, working with other internal customers to implement changes

About You – for All Roles, We Are Looking For

• Numerate and analytical
• Structured, focused and enthusiastic to learn
• Proactive, curious and conscientious
• Confident and able to work under pressure
• Seeks to understand others’ perspectives
• Hunger for learning, with a minimum of GCSE grade 4 or C (or equivalent) in English and Maths, and a commitment to completing a placement year (starting in 2025) as part of your third year at university
• Proficient user of the MS office suite
• And finally, it helps if you love holidays as we are all passionate about the full experience gain through travel that creates memories that last a lifetime

Additional Information

We have an under-representation of ethnic minority and disabled colleagues within the Commercial team at TUI UK&I and therefore welcome applications from people who come from these communities.

From a workplace to a place to belong. At TUI we embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion, encouraging everyone to come as you are, because together, our potential is limitless. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities and impairments so if you require any support, please do let us know.

We are part of the Disability Confident Scheme and welcome disabled applicants. As users of the Disability Confident Scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.

Currently TUI is unable to provide visa sponsorship, you must have permanent right to live and work in the UK without sponsorship to be eligible to apply. This includes applicants in possession of a Tier 4 Student visa.

Application Deadline

24th January 2025

Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the stated deadline due to the high volume of applications.

About TUI

Want to get your career off to a flying start? The sky’s the limit with TUI. We’re the world's number one tourism group, operating in around 180 destinations worldwide, which means limitless global opportunities for you and your future.

TUI UK & Ireland is the UK’s leading travel brand. Together, we create moments that leave a lasting, meaningful impression. This is why we come to work every day, and why our customers choose us. With market-leading brands such as TUI, First Choice, Marella Cruises, Crystal Ski Holidays, and TUI River Cruises, plus our own TUI Airline, we create the moments that make life richer, inspiring our customers and colleagues to live happy.

Our Placement Programmes are an opportunity to spend an invaluable year experiencing an exciting mix of real responsibilities on real projects with exposure to many other functional areas and senior colleagues, all while gaining a unique insight into our exciting and dynamic industry. You’ll have lots of fun during your time with us, and we’ll ensure you get the support you need every step of the way.

Students often comment about the unique culture within TUI. You’ll find that everyone here is hugely passionate about our products and ensuring we work together to deliver exceptional travel experiences to our customers, and this creates a real buzz and excitement in the office - after all, what product is more exciting to work with than a holiday?

We’re looking for candidates who are motivated, with a drive to succeed, and who thrive on looking for solutions to real business challenges, with a great communication style that enables collaboration. Many of our previous placement colleagues are now working in more senior roles within the business, and so we’re also looking for leadership potential and the ambition to go far if you join us again as a graduate.

Come and be yourself with us and discover a world of opportunity. Who knows where a career with TUI could take you - the sky's the limit.

How to apply

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Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.