Commercial Services Internship (Dubai)

Commercial Services Internship (Dubai)

Why work for Hilton?

Hilton is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing hospitality companies, with more than 6,660+ properties in 118 countries and territories. In the 100+ years since our founding, we have defined the hospitality industry and established a portfolio of 19 world-class brands, including our flagship Hilton Hotels & Resorts brand, which is the most recognised hotel brand in the world.

We are consistently endorsed by our employees as a Great Place to Work in all the countries in which we operate, and for the last five years we have been voted by UK students as the most popular Graduate Recruiter in the Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism sector (TargetJobs Awards 2021)

Hilton work perks:

In addition to a competitive intern salary, you will also receive a range of excellent benefits – probably the best of which is our Go Hilton Team Member Travel Program. This provides you with access to heavily reduced hotel room rates for you, your family & friends. Perfect for the holiday savvy intern! On top of this, you will have 50% on our managed F&B outlets across UAE.

In our Regional office for Middle East, Africa and Türkiye in Dubai, we have an open space office, located in Internet City, close to the Dubai Marina and other interesting locations in Dubai. We have app 170 team members based in the Dubai office, we are social and fun bunch of people driving the business for the MEA&T region from here.

A bit about the job(s):

Working in Hilton’s Regional office for Middle East, Africa and Türkiye will give the successful candidate valuable exposure about how the Commercial engine functions. With over 180 hotels, across 28 countries, this internship will open doors for an individual to work across various functions within the business – from Revenue to Sales and Marketing. As an intern, you will be an integral part of the team and will play an active role in continued success. The intern will be assigned a mentor to offer their knowledge and experience towards their advancement, and to help bridge any skill gaps.

The intern will carry out a range of administrative and support activities, as well as having ownership of their own project-based initiatives.

Below are some of the typical tasks and responsibilities:

• Joining Regional Commercial meetings involving various functions of the business.
• Attending Commercial meetings in hotels to help drive strategy and/or projects.
• Researching and identifying the top emerging trends impacting the Commercial outlook of the business.

• Helping to creating executive presentations for regional meetings, regional stakeholders, and on-going projects.
• Using online tools to extract data from primary and secondary sources.
• Performing analysis to assess quality and meaning of data.
• Filter Data by reviewing reports and performance indicators to identify areas of risk and opportunities.
• Preparing reports and presentations for stakeholders stating trends, patterns, and predictions using relevant data.

What are we looking for?

As with any job, we do have certain criteria that you will need to meet in order to be considered for one of these highly sought-after opportunities. These are detailed as follows;

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and resources to achieve outstanding results.
• Advanced people skills with the ability to communicate effectively with various internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent presentation skills with the ability to prepare and deliver persuasive oral and written reports and presentations.
• Excellent time management, organisational, coordination and communication (verbal and written) skills.

• Team-working skills and problem-solving skills along with accuracy and attention to detail.
• Person should be engaging and a self-starter.
• Microsoft Office skills is a must i.e. Excel, PowerPoint & Word.
• Must be in your second year of undergraduate study at the point of application.
• Must be eligible to work in the UAE.

We are looking for this intern to start as soon as possible, please include the date on which you would be able to start this position in your application.

What next?

Please bear with us whilst we process your application as we receive a lot of interest and we want to ensure that each applicant is given the consideration he/she deserves.

You’ll be contacted via email by our Graduate Recruitment Team who will inform you of the outcome and (if applicable) next steps. If your application is taken forward, you will be asked to complete a series of online assessments and a video interview.

Beyond the Internship

Whilst we are not always able to guarantee an offer of employment at the end of your studies, we like to keep in touch with our intern community and many have successfully re-joined Hilton upon completion of their degree. To give you a few examples, we currently have former interns working for us in Finance, Marketing, Sales, HR, Procurement… The list goes on!