The Opportunity
 
The ASO Intern will be responsible for qualifying new business leads through a globally aligned process of inputting details into Salesforce and following an agreed line of questions. These business leads will come from a variety of sources, including internal referral, and the intern’s own research of pre-determined potential accounts. In addition, the role includes supporting the wider team in organizing client engagement activities, including virtual race days and in-person events.

As the Hilton ASO intern, your activities will include:

• Qualify potential new business demand for Hilton.
• Be owner agnostic.
• Support the creation of opportunity for client engagement, supporting hotels in market.
• To implement and build Inquiries records in Salesforce.
• To research and develop account information that grows the opportunity for account penetration.
• Manages customer opportunities in both transient and group.
• Follows procedures and processes in relation to qualifying new accounts or growing existing business development accounts to move from unmanaged to managed accounts when agreed criteria is met.
• To communicate regularly with hotels to ensure productive and effective meetings are established and customer information cross-referenced and to ensure relevant hotels are well aware of the ‘Customer value’ when dealing with a tender coming from a specific customer.
• Attendance at sales workshops.
• Involvement in various projects to support the ASO team’s strategies.
• Various administration tasks to support the EMEA wide ASO team.

Why choose us?
 
Embarking on our year in industry programme is a transformative journey, encompassing a structured framework of learning and development activities. Here's what you can look forward to: 
 
Learning and Development: Interns have access to Hilton University and other learning resources to enhance their skills and contribute meaningfully to ongoing projects.

Networking: Our programme offers our interns the chance to connect with professionals across the business, paving the way for valuable relationships. 

Feedback and Growth: Regular evaluations and feedback sessions will ensure our interns receive guidance and an opportunity to continually improve.  

Cross-Exposure: Opportunity to gain insight into another function. 

Hilton Perks: Including our Go Hilton TM Travel Program, which provides you with access to heavily reduced hotel room rates for you, your family & friends. 

Competitive Salary & Benefits: 60,000 AED PA, housing allowance 48000 AED PA & transport allowance 6000 AED PA.

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

• First and foremost, Hilton is a hospitality company, and we are looking for individuals with a strong sense of alignment to our culture and values. 
• You must have graduated with a Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in the last 12 months. 
• You must be able to undertake a full-time (40 hours per week) 12-month graduate internship, from July 2024. 
• We are looking for a candidate who is local to the UAE and will not require a visa to work full-time in Dubai. 
• Excellent communication skills:  presentations, written and public speaking.
• Ability to collaborate among cross-functional teams including external resources. 
• Demonstrates the highest standards of ethical behaviour and absolute discretion with sensitive information.  
• Ability to work independently.
• Exceptionally organized and comfortable prioritizing tasks and working to deadlines.
• Any additional languages would be advantageous, especially Arabic.
• Strong administration skills including proficiency in Microsoft programs (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)

What is it like working for Hilton?

Hilton is one of the world's largest and fastest-growing hospitality companies, with over 7,000 hotels in 123 countries & territories. Today we have a portfolio of 22 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 have recently been ranked by our employees as #1 World's Best Workplace awarded by Great Place to Work & Fortune.
 
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.
 
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We will ensure that qualified individuals with protected disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions of the role. Please contact us to request accommodation. 

Beyond the Internship

Once you have completed an internship with us, you are part of Team Hilton and whilst we cannot always guarantee an offer of employment after your internship, we like to keep in touch. Many EMEA based interns have successfully re-joined Hilton. To give you a few examples, we currently have former interns working for us in Finance, Marketing, Sales, HR, Supply Management, Engineering… The list goes on!

Selection Process 
 
Please apply now, applications close on 21st April 2024. Our internships are extremely popular, therefore please bear with us whilst we process your application as we want to ensure that each applicant is given the consideration that they deserve. 

If successful in your application, you’ll be invited to complete a digital one-way video interview and an online assessment, this allows us to learn more about you and whether this placement might be a great fit! So please do look out for our email updates and we encourage you to complete each next step as soon as possible. The EMEA Graduate Recruitment Team will then contact you and inform you of your outcome.

Good luck, we are looking forward to meeting you!