2025 Business & Commercial Placement Programme - 12 months

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. 

Our Commercial teams help design, develop, and deliver dream holidays for our customers, delivering 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 of our business, and you’ll be playing a key part in this exciting area!

ABOUT OUR OFFER:

• Starting salary for the role is £23,550 per annum with fantastic progression and incremental roll off salary (pay review pending)
• Welcome days & introductions
• Structured induction plan
• Direct line manager support plus support from the placement scheme team
• 2 x placement projects throughout the year (1x charity, 1x business)
• Contact with business directors – through welcome meetings and project presentations
• Monthly team meetings
• Shadowing in other departments
• Hangar Tour
• Buddies – every new placement gets a buddy from around the business
• Mentors – we provide a mentor to all of our placements
• Investment in your development through workshops & the Tour Operator Development Programme
• Social events
• Support the next year’s placement intake
• Blog and options for content creation – there is the opportunity for you to be creative with content creation whilst on their year here

Benefits

• Fantastic holiday benefits including discounts, staff rates and late seats
• 26 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Experience working for a major global business in an award-winning placement scheme
• Employment opportunities post placement
• Travel opportunities
• Health and Wellbeing support in five key areas – Financial, Health, Social, Community and Career
• Community day – time to spend working at a local charity or community project
• Be Rewarded Platform – savings at high street shops, on days out and more
• All the employee networks

ABOUT THE JOB

During your placement, you’ll spend 12 months in either the Trading, First Choice or Product teams. Throughout the recruitment process, you’ll be considered for all roles, and you’ll have the opportunity to indicate your preference if you have one – we will then consider this alongside your strengths to find the right role for you. 

In all roles, you’ll gain a full insight into our Commercial function, supporting a portfolio of destinations and making key commercial decisions which will drive forward the strategy, profitability and success of TUI. 

Trading (Beach or Cruise) – Have you ever wondered how the price of your package holiday or cruise is decided, why they sometimes change from the last time you looked or why the cost varies across different destinations or itineraries? The Trading role is the team behind this and is all about spotting patterns and working with data to ensure a proactive approach to problem-solving and getting the best results for your destinations.

In summary, these roles are all about:

• Ensuring our products are available to our customers at the right price, at the right time, in line with demand and competition 
• Focus on either Cruise or Beach holidays, identifying the best way to sell our beds and aircraft seats to maximise profits 
• Responsibility for a number of cruise ships or holiday destinations, enhancing both flight and cabin/hotel performance. You 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 monitor and react to demand in the competitive holiday market, taking relevant pricing actions to maximise opportunities and overcome any barriers to sale 

First Choice – Working in our First Choice part of the business, this exciting new team will be focusing on growing the First Choice brand in line with our long term plan. 

For our commercial role, you will:

• Contribute to the delivery of a bold new strategy for First Choice as part of a fun, dynamic and entrepreneurial team.
• Be responsible for analysing sales trends across a range of holiday products (hotels, flights, transfers, ancillaries, experiences) to optimise commercial performance in line with the First Choice strategy. You will balance commercial and customer considerations to ensure commercial performance is achieved in line with the First Choice brand values.
• You will monitor and report on competitor activity, analysing trends and identifying commercial opportunities for First Choice.
• You will build strong relationships with commercial, distribution and content stakeholders across TUI to overcome any barriers to sale and ensure commercial targets are met.

Product - Within the Product department, we understand what our customers want and how the world is changing to design and develop dream holidays. As we deliver these holidays, we achieve growth and profitability by focusing on what customers want, how much they will pay, and ensuring our key messages are understood. As Product Executive, your role is fundamental in supporting the Product Management team to develop and drive forward the TUI UK&I product in line with our strategic imperatives and the wider Group strategy.

• As a Product Executive you will support the Product Team to drive the growth of our holidays. You will have a thorough understanding of our key competitors, our customers and the commercial performance of our holidays, understanding and ensuring the accuracy of our cost base to set the right price point at season launch
• You will support in developing pricing strategies, accurately implementing them to ensure our holidays are priced correctly to hit target margins that maximise profit and revenue.
• You will track and analyse sales and margins in close liaison with trading teams
• You will use statistics on web share and other available information to review and challenge web content, working with other internal customers to implement changes

*** This is a 12-month placement which is based in Luton; to be eligible to apply you must be in your penultimate year of university.***

ABOUT YOU – for all roles, we are looking for:

• Numerate and analytical
• Structured, focused and enthusiastic to learn
• Proactive, curious and conscientious
• Confident and able to work under pressure
• Seeks to understand others’ perspectives
• Hunger for learning, with a minimum of GCSE grade 4 or C (or equivalent) in English and Maths, and a commitment to completing a placement year (starting in 2025) as part of your third year at university
• Proficient user of the MS office suite
• And finally, it helps if you love holidays as we are all passionate about the full experience gain through travel that creates memories that last a lifetime

*** We have an under-representation of ethnic minority and disabled colleagues within the Commercial team at TUI UK&I and therefore welcome applications from people who come from these communities***

From a workplace to a place to belong. At TUI we embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion, encouraging everyone to come as you are, because together, our potential is limitless. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities and impairments so if you require any support, please do let us know.

We are part of the Disability Confident Scheme and welcome disabled applicants. As users of the Disability Confident Scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. 

* Currently TUI is unable to provide visa sponsorship, you must have permanent right to live and work in the UK without sponsorship to be eligible to apply. This includes applicants in possession of a Tier 4 Student visa.

Application Deadline: 24th January 2025

Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the stated deadline due to the high volume of applications.

Don't miss this opportunity to shape your future and make a meaningful impact on the global travel and tourism industry.