Business Operations Placement

Job Details

Business Operations Placement

We have an opportunity within our commercial operations team as a Business Operations intern. You will be interacting and collaborating with Travelport’s entire commercial operations community, engaging with a range of other teams in the business function, allowing you to gain exposure and experience across the business.

You’ll be playing a pivotal role in supporting weekly and monthly business performance reviews, challenging the teams and tracking progress on associated priorities. You will regularly use Microsoft applications to build reports and implement process improvements, so an analytical mindset is crucial!

What’s Travelport?

Travelport is a place of opportunity. It’s our incredible team that makes our company great – our people drive our winning culture.

Travelport is the brains behind lots of your travel bookings. Plane, car or hotel. You name it, we do it. Our technology is used to book that magical family holiday, amazing birthday getaway or spontaneous weekend getaway. While we can't solve mosquito bites or lost luggage, we can simplify a lot of the technical parts of travel, and we're looking for the best thinkers to help us do it.

The Job

We have an opportunity within our commercial operations team as a Business Operations intern. You will be interacting and collaborating with Travelport’s entire commercial operations community, engaging with a range of other teams in the business function, allowing you to gain exposure and experience across the business.

You’ll be playing a pivotal role in supporting weekly and monthly business performance reviews, challenging the teams and tracking progress on associated priorities. You will regularly use Microsoft applications to build reports and implement process improvements, so an analytical mindset is crucial. You’ll get the opportunity to dive into the world of sales enablement and work with other teams to ensure they have the right tools available to sell efficiently and close deals. Also, you will have the opportunity to shadow various departments, allowing you to gain valuable insights and determine the career you may want to pursue in the future.

Corporate Social Responsibility

You’ll have the opportunity to give back to the community by fundraising and volunteering for both local and global charities alongside your fellow interns.

Learning and Development

You’ll receive training sessions designed to support your personal and professional development while also equipping you with industry specific skills.

‘Internpreneurship’

You’ll have the opportunity to develop solutions to real business problems which Travelport has and present your ideas to the Senior leadership team and/or external companies.

Our internships are for students seeking a placement year for their third year of their undergraduate degree. We offer ambitious students like you the opportunity to participate in an immersive and rewarding internship like no other. Because at Travelport, you’ll get the chance to apply your skills and offer solutions to projects that truly matter!

Why Travelport

• A global team: Work with teams across the globe; @ Travelport, the world is your oyster
• Work flexibility: We’re not gymnasts but we’re pretty flexible and hybrid working is the norm
• Career growth: Our collaborative work culture means you will never be bored offering you lots of opportunities for learning and upskilling
• Bright future: Possibility to join us after graduation
• Our amazing People: Search for # lifeattravelport posts on LinkedIn to learn and see more about us
• Remuneration: Competitive base salary & benefits package; plus a very generous holiday allowance

The sales enablement internship

This is a great opportunity to gain valuable insights into the world of sales enablement where you’ll be part of a small, strategic, collaborative discipline responsible for providing the sales force with the right tools, skills, methods, content, cadence, rigor, process and data to help them plan and engage with their prospects, sell more efficiently, and close deals. We bring together the people and resources necessary to provide content, training and coaching services to internal customer-facing audiences in a way that aligns with the customer journey.

What kind of work could you be doing?

• Organizing and managing our learning platform to ensure our sales representatives have the right access to the material they need
• Supporting initiatives aimed at enhancing the skills, knowledge, and productivity of our sales and customer-facing teams, including supporting the creation of training material
• Assisting users with troubleshooting and responding to queries regarding the platform
• Participating in projects that look at opportunities to optimize processes

Who would do well in these roles?

Studying for a relevant degree is always helpful; more importantly we want to see that you’re passionate, you have a desire to add value and take ownership of projects while working with autonomy and accountability.

Don’t worry, we’ll teach you everything you need to know for you to be successful in your role!

The hiring process

• 1st step: Please apply following the link by no later than Friday 13th December
• 2nd step: Upon receipt of your application, we will send you an on-demand video interview link (please check your emails/spam!) to complete no later than Wednesday 18th December 
• 3rd step: If shortlisted, you will be invited to attend our Showcase Assessment Day in our Langley offices late January 2025 where you will have the opportunity to meet & interview with our team!

About Travelport

Travelport is a global technology company that powers bookings for hundreds of thousands of travel suppliers worldwide. Buyers and sellers of travel are connected by the company’s next generation marketplace, Travelport+, which simplifies how brands connect, upgrades how travel is sold, and enables modern digital retailing

Annually, we run a 13-month (July – July) internship program comprised of four pillars: the job, corporate social responsibility, learning and development, and ‘internpreneurship’ (see what we did there?)

We offer ambitious students like you the opportunity to participate in an immersive and rewarding internship like no other. Because at Travelport, you’ll get the chance to apply your skills and offer solutions to projects that truly matter.

And, our intern panel is dedicated to supporting and guiding you along the way as you tackle exciting challenges that help you grow, develop, and progress your career.

But don’t just take our word for it. Our interns always tell us they’re pleasantly surprised by how much exposure, responsibility, and fun (yes, really) they have here. We make people feel at home from the get-go, so they become a fully-fledged Travelporter in no time at all.

How to apply

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.