Commercial Placement

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About TUI UK

TUI UK & Ireland is part of the Mainstream Sector of TUI Travel PLC, one of the world’s leading international leisure travel companies, with over 240 trusted brands in 180 countries and more than 30 million customers.
TUI UK & Ireland comprises of many instantly recognisable brands and leading tour operators such as Thomson and First Choice, consisting of circa 650 Retail shops and the world’s largest charter airline, Thomson Airways.

The award-winning Placement Scheme is considered one of the best across the UK, giving you the opportunity to work in a real role, making important commercial decisions with real responsibility.

TUI UK Placement Roles

We’ll be recruiting for various Placement Student jobs. Initially, you'll apply for a single role - Commercial Assistant - we'll then use our Assessment Centre and your preferences to work out which role will suit you best. Here are the roles that are on offer:

Product Assistant
Every day is different in Product. You’ll work with people from all over the business – Brand Marketing, Publishing, and Purchasing are just a handful of the teams you’ll be in touch with. Best things about working in product? Launching a new season and investigating new hotels to put on sale.

Early Trading Assistant
Early Trading is really diverse. You’ll be working on several seasons at once, looking at flights, packages and all the other different elements of the holiday. You’ll be responsible for maximising saleability of your resorts. Day to day you’ll have dealings with various teams from around the business – Web, Marketing and Purchasing will all put in an appearance – so it goes without saying that good communication skills are one of the keys to your success.

Late Trading Assistant
Working in late trading you’ll be responsible for getting bums on seats – and in beds – which, in trading terms, means filling our planes and hotels at the best possible prices. You’ll be working on the current season from about 12 weeks before departure, monitoring sales and making price adjustments. You’ll interact with other parts of the business regularly, feeding back results to Product and Flight Planning as well as working with Marketing and Web to make sure your areas are well represented in all distribution channels.

Cruise Trading Assistant
The Cruise Department is almost like a business within a business. It has its own dedicated teams for Planning, Brand, Operations and several more besides, and you'll be working closely with them all. You'll have responsibility for several ships across the Thomson Cruises and Island Cruises fleets, making sure we sell high volumes at the best possible price. Best things about Cruise Trading? You get a really good variety of work to do, so no two days are the same - there's definitely more to it than just number crunching.

Benefits

• £500 relocation loan (deducted from your pay)
• 20 days' holiday
• Generous holiday concessions
• Subsidised gym membership
• Travel benefits including late flights and discounted hotel prices, friends and family discounts and other travel offers

What We're Looking For

We’re looking for enthusiastic undergraduates from universities looking for 12-month placements. You’ll need 300 UCAS points under your belt - from 3 A-levels, you’ll also need to be on a sandwich degree and be interested in the world of tourism.

Wondering what skills we watch out for? It’s pretty much a given that you’ll need to be willing to learn and eager to work in a high-performance environment. But we’d like to see you demonstrating the TUI values, too. These are...

• Customer Obsessed
• Value Driven
• Playing To Win
• Responsible Leadership.

Application process

Apply online
Fill in our online application form. There’s a series of questions to answer and a CV upload section.

Online Test
If your online application form is successful, you’ll be asked to complete an online numeracy test. There may be a similar test at the Assessment Day if you pass this one.

Telephone Interview
If you pass the online test, you'll be asked to complete an interview by phone.

Assessment Day
The final step in our application process is the Assessment Day. There’ll be several different exercises to run through as well as an interview. You’ll find out more closer to the time.

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