Commercial Placement - Crystal Ski (Surbiton)

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Commercial Placement - Crystal Ski

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 business, operating in around 180 destinations worldwide, which means limitless global opportunities for you and your future.

As part of our placement programme, you’ll spend one invaluable year working right at the heart of our business – with real responsibilities, and the chance to work on real projects. You’ll gain a unique insight into our exciting and dynamic industry, with exposure to many other functional areas and senior colleagues. 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.

We design and develop dream holidays for our customers. The Commercial function deliver growth and profitability through cleverly managing price, focusing on cost and controlling the availability of our products. From liaising with hotel buyers, to forecasting travel trends, developing holiday brochures, and pricing holidays – it’s all in a day’s work in this area at the heart of our business.

You’ll be placed in either Product Planning, Product Development or Trading. You’ll have the opportunity to indicate your preference – if you have one – which we’ll take into account when we assess your strengths in line with each area.

You’ll spend 12 months in the Crystal Ski Holidays team in Surbiton, where you’ll gain a full insight into our Commercial function and wider Ski business, supporting a portfolio of destinations and making important commercial decisions which will drive forward the strategy and profitability of TUI.

About the Job:

• You will be responsible for supporting the planning and product activity for your allocated destinations, which includes ensuring we have the right mix of hotels, destinations and concepts on offer to match customer demand
• You will play an integral part in analysing the cost base of your allocated resorts and setting the pricing/margin strategy accordingly to ensure your destinations meet both financial and strategic objectives.
• You will have responsibility of your allocated resorts performance. You will 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 will work with a wide range of teams across the business to deliver our web content and printed brochures, ensuring our products are promoted correctly across all of our distribution channels
• You will monitor and report on competitor activity and performance as well as analysing and predicting market trends
• You will regularly interact with other business areas and support our sales channels on customer queries and support the wider commercial team on ah-hoc projects.
• For an insight into what our Crystal Ski team do, check out this video which showcases our Crystal Ski brand and our take on ‘how to winter’!

About You:

• Natural drive to achieve both individual and business results with a commercial focus
• Engages and collaborates with others
• Analytical approach to solving problems and creating solutions
• Strategic thinker
• Brings innovative ideas and insights
• Focuses on providing unrivalled service to our customers
• Adapts and shows resilience if faced with adversity
• Great at communicating with others
• A passion for business development, as well an interest in the travel industry

About TUI

TUI Group is the world’s number one integrated tourism business operating in around 180 countries worldwide with over 1,800 travel agencies across Europe, six airlines operating more than 130 aircraft, more than 300 Group-owned hotels and resorts and twelve cruise ships. Our 77,000 colleagues, all with a passion for holidays, work hard to deliver our customer promise ”Discover your smile”

TUI UK & Ireland part of TUI Group and is home to some of the most well-known holiday brands such as First Choice and Crystal Ski to name a few. As well as being a market leader, we’re a FTSE 100 company which means we have to make sure we’re always one step ahead of competition. We focus on providing unrivalled choice, professionalism and confidence our customers and stakeholders can rely on. We employ a team of 13,300 employees and serve over 5.2 million customers each year.

How to apply

To apply for this role and to find out more, please click on the apply button below. As we recruit on a rolling basis, we encourage candidates to submit their application as soon as possible to be in with the best chance.

Our recruitment process comprises an online application form where we'll ask some initial questions about you and your motivations, some verbal, numerical and logical reasoning tests, a digital interview so that we can find out more about you, and a virtual assessment day where we get to meet and learn more about each other

We'll give you lots of hints and tips along the way, and if you need any reasonable adjustments to be made at any point in the recruitment process, we'll be more than happy to accommodate.