2025 Corporate Hotel Operations - Openings Placement

Based in our EMEA headquarters, Watford, 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 subsidised restaurant, a games area and a free in-house gym.

The Opportunity

As the EMEA Hotel Openings & Transitions intern you will support the team with a range of administrative and operational activities. This position will centrally support the openings & transitions processes, agnostically for all hotels, with key responsibilities being:

• Day-to-day execution of prioritized initiatives to support onboarding of new hotels.


• Complete regular pre openings tasks, support the new hotel onboarding process, reducing the timeline of the opening process, ensuring hotel teams are focusing on property specific onboarding milestones.


• Support the hotel's commercial and operational readiness.


• Regularly update and refresh support materials, hotel facing documents and tutorials, knowledge articles and processes to ensure these always reflect the latest brand voice and positioning, cross functional opening tasks.


• Support the Senior Manager and Director of Openings & Transitions Central Services with the hotel transition process.


• Support the Senior Manager of Openings & Transitions Central Services with administrative tasks.


• Own and deliver a number of projects, monitoring and presenting findings back to the team.


• This placement will work with the wider Brands & Central Operations team and in particular with the Brand Performance Support EMEA team.


You will also predominantly provide support for activities including:

• Daily support of hotels in pre-openings/transitions.


• Complete pre-opening/transition tasks & milestones on behalf of hotels.


• Ensure process timelines are met and all objectives are delivered on time for a successful opening/transition.


You will also be involved in content activities, including supporting the team with video tutorials, fact sheets and similar product solutions made available to our hotels. As well as planning & organising activities, including, planning daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly openings & transition support schedules and engagements. Travel may be required for internal meetings and some hotel openings.

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.
  
  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 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.


• The ideal candidate will have at least an interest in the hotel/hospitality industry.


• Excellent communication and presentation skills.


• Exceptionally organized and comfortable prioritizing tasks and working to deadlines.


• Additional EMEA language skills would be advantageous, although not essential.
  
  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 Workplace awarded by Great Place to Work & Fortune.