Hilton is one of the world's largest and fastest-growing hospitality companies, with over 7,000 hotels in 118 countries. Today we have a portfolio of 18 brands across luxury, high-end lifestyle, suites, full service and affordable hotel categories. Our flagship Hilton Hotels & Resorts brand, is the most recognised hotel brand in the world.
We have an incredible culture which makes Hilton a great place to work. As a company we are consistently endorsed by our employees as a Great Place to Work, where for the last 2 years we have ranked in the top 3 companies in the UK and #2 in the world. For the last five years we have also been voted by UK students as the most popular Graduate Recruiter in the Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism sector (TargetJobs Awards 2021).
We value and celebrate our team members diversities and individualism and foster a culture of belonging across our organisation. Joining Hilton will give you the opportunity to contribute to our rich culture and give back to the community. Our Team Member Resource Groups in UK focus on Abilities, Generations, Pride, Women’s and Ethnic representation. You can find details on our Culture page.
Hilton work perks
In addition to a competitive 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 and your family & friends. Perfect if you love to travel as this applies to all hotels globally.
In our EMEA headquarters based in Watford, you will also benefit from a subsidized canteen, a games room and a free in-house gym featuring state-of-the-art equipment, including Peloton. Watford is super conveniently located, just under 20 mins train ride away from the buzz in central London, so perfect to live a London lifestyle without the cost.
Within the EMEA Corporate offices, you will be part of a cohort of approximately 20 Interns, working across various corporate teams and involved in our leading intern programme. This includes regular connect meetings, short assignments and feedback sessions designed to support your development.
A bit about the job
Do you want to do legendary work and win awards? We do! And this year we won 4 awards for our first advertising campaign on TikTok*. Next year we want to push the boundaries of innovation further, do more, be better and continue to be recognised as a world-class media team. You could be part of this with us.
As a Junior Media Manager, this internship will provide you with a hands-on experience of planning, managing, and delivering key advertising campaigns for our brands, hotels and the destinations in which they operate. You will gain experience of most aspects of media advertising from always-on Performance Media across Google products, to huge campaign launches which incorporate both digital and offline ad formats, such as social media, TV, billboard, podcast advertising and much more.
You will gain exposure to client-side marketing disciplines in these areas, as well as work closely with our advertising agency and key media partners. This will be a super exciting opportunity to look under the hood of advertising channels and platforms to understand how we bring authentic and compelling adverts to life. Whilst this is largely not a technical role, you will have the exposure to many different disciplines within Marketing, from technical to creative to customer and audience behaviour. So if you’re interested in a career in advertising or marketing, this is a fantastic opportunity to see what the options are.
As part of this role, you’ll get to work alongside a diverse team of specialist experts, who work collaboratively and challenge each other to do our best work. We don’t just talk the talk on diversity, we actively seek diverse thinking and new ideas to improve what we do, not only for ourselves but to change the face of advertising for all that see it.
Added to this, you’ll have an incredible opportunity to work directly with our key partners such as Meta (Facebook), TikTok, Google, YouTube and more. We do work hard, but a career in advertising is a ton of fun too. You will get to visit the offices of the key publishers above, and we’ll connect you with a variety of our external stakeholders within those publishers and our advertising agency, so that you get to see what a career in advertising might look like from all sides.
Whilst on placement, you will have a dedicated line manager as well as a ‘buddy’ to ensure that you are supported in your role to navigate the business, solve exciting challenges and deliver any requirements you may have as part of your internship.
As Junior Media Manager, key activities within your day-to-day role include
- Support the Media team across brand campaigns, performance marketing and regional marketing
- Help to build innovation in media activity, working with external partners such as Dentsu, Google, TikTok and Meta.
- Build campaign reports as needed for wider marketing organisation
- Develop relationships with connecting teams such as Brand Marketing & Destination Marketing to execute campaigns in region
- Cultivate strong relationships with publishers, surfacing new opportunities to test and innovate
- Support media campaign set up and development, including campaign tracking
- Develop competitor analysis
- Work closely with Marketing Insight team to build out learnings which then inform media campaigns and audience targeting
- Work with Media Capabilities team to leverage dynamic creative and audience capabilities to best effect
- Manage design, implementation and reporting of media tests within our “test n learn” agenda
- Support leaders on key projects and initiatives
- Support leaders on core work, including any required administration
You are
- In your second year of undergraduate study at the point of application
- Currently undergoing studies in marketing, media, digital advertising or a related field
- Available to start in July 2023, for the full 12 months.
- Eligible to work in the UK. If you are a non-UK national, then you will need to be studying at a UK university in order to be eligible to undertake a placement here.
- Someone with a keen interest in consumer behaviour, media and advertising
- Someone with problem-solving skills and ability to act autonomously
- Someone who is adaptable, passionate to learn and hard working
- Someone with great communication skills with the ability to clearly and concisely express ideas both verbally and in writing
- Someone who has a numerical understanding and good Excel skills
What next?
If you would like to be considered for this internship please ensure that you submit your application (in English) on or before 14th January. 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 they deserve.
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, we like to keep in touch:
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!