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TUI Group • Luton, GBR,

2025 Marketing & Merchandising Placement (12 months)

Employment type:  Full time

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top 3 scores:
88%

Location flexibility

81%

Autonomy

80%

Hours flexibility

Job Description

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 have various roles on offer across our Marketing and Merchandising Teams. The Digital Sales & Merchandising role sits within our expanding Digital team. This is the team who manage all the websites across the TUI UK & Ireland business from Beach Holidays to Cruises to City Breaks and Tours. Our website, www.tui.co.uk, is responsible for driving over 65% of bookings, which you would support by making a range of on-site campaigns that balance customer needs with the broader business and eCommerce goals.

The First Choice Social Media role sits in the First Choice marketing team. It’s an exciting time for First Choice as the business is still fresh post launch with a very exciting few years ahead. Already an established player in travel, the brand, led by a young, dynamic and forward-thinking leadership team, is back with an impact. Whilst still a valued part of the TUI family, the new First Choice has its own distinct personality and culture and we’re looking for talented people with a curious outlook, energetic mind-set and can-do attitude to help bring it to life.

All teams are based out of our modern and vibrant head office in Luton where the successful candidate would work 1-2 days a week, with flexible hybrid working available on the other days.

*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 OUR OFFER:

  • Starting salary for the role is £23,550 per annum with fantastic progression (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 JOBS

Digital Sales & Merchandising:

Joining up with our large Digital Sales & Merchandising team, you will be working in a fast-paced commercial environment and be making data-driven decisions to improve website trading performance, whilst ensuring the user experience is inspirational, engaging and relevant.

The Digital Sales & Merchandising role is after a creative thinker who will be able to bring new and exciting ideas to the team. Analytical and naturally inquisitive, you will have the ability to interpret trading and test results data, identify trends and recommend actionable change. You will be able to work well under pressure and thrive on working under tight deadlines.

Working with the rest of the Digital Sales & Merchandising team, as well as with the commercial, trading and analytics teams, you will be responsible for developing and executing a range of onsite merchandising campaigns. These will all help ensure our key trading priorities are supported, as well as drive forward our onsite personalisation and A/B testing strategy across desktop and mobile.

You will also work closely with the Content, Digital Marketing, User Experience and Design teams to build engaging, digital and integrated campaigns that balance both customer and business needs, at the same time as keeping a close eye on travel websites and industry trends.

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

  • Commercially aware with a passion for sales, merchandising, marketing or social media
  • A proactive self-starter and strong team player with ability to build lasting relationships both internally and externally.
  • Creative thinker who is customer obsessed
  • Well-developed communication and analytical skills
  • Structured, focused and enthusiastic to learn
  • Proactive, curious and conscientious
  • Confident and able to work under pressure
  • Ability to juggle priorities and stay focused under pressure, with strong attention to detail.
  • 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

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.

*** We have an under-representation of disabled and ethnic minority colleagues at TUI and therefore welcome applications from people who come from these communities.***

* 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.

Company benefits

Travel credit – All benefits vary by location and job role, we'd be happy to chat to you about this in more detail
Work from anywhere scheme – TUI WORKWIDE means colleagues can work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
Employee discounts
Flexible working week
Bank holiday swaps
Time off in-lieu
Religious celebration leave
Buy or sell annual leave
Health insurance
Gym membership
Open to part time work for some roles
Mental health platform access
Enhanced maternity leave
Shared parental leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Compassionate leave
Cinema discounts
Travel insurance
Cycle to work scheme
In office catering
Annual pay rises
Annual bonus
Life assurance
Salary sacrifice
In office workout classes
Teambuilding days
Employee assistance programme
Charity donation scheme
Enhanced sick pay
Share options
Faith rooms
Volunteer days
Lunch and learns
Hackathons
L&D budget
Sabbaticals
Personal development days
Mental health days
Travel loan
Enhanced pension match/contribution

We asked employees of TUI Group what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location flexibility
88%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours flexibility
80%
Employees are largely happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
76%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
72%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
76%
Employees feel that most people work flexibly
Autonomy
81%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Additional employee ratings
(these do not contribute to the FlexScore®)

Diversity
70%
Employees feel that the diversity is good and there are continued efforts to improve it
Inclusion
75%
Employees feel that the culture supports equity and inclusivity well
Culture
80%
Employees enjoy the working environment
Mission
75%
Employees feel quite excited about the company mission
Salary
52%
Employees feel that their salary is fair and in line with the market average

Working at TUI Group

Company employees

60,000 globally

Gender diversity (male:female)

80:20

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