ABOUT THE JOB
The time that our customers spend away on our holidays is precious. That’s why we need to understand what our customers want as well as how the world is changing so we can design, develop and deliver dream holidays. Our Commercial team do just this, sustainably 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 at the heart of our business.
As a Commercial Apprentice, you’ll gain unrivalled insight into how we go about planning, pricing and selling our TUI and First Choice holiday experiences. You’ll spend two years rotating between three of our core commercial departments:
1. Trading – this team ensures our products are available to our customers at the right price, at the right time, in line with demand and competition. You’ll learn about how we sell our flights and hotels at the right price in order to hit our key targets, as well as how we monitor our competitor’s activity.
2. Product Planning – this team ensures we have the right products on offer to give our customers the widest variety of holidays to choose from. You’ll learn about how we select which new holiday concepts and hotels to offer our customers, as well as how we price them and present them to our customers, from the content on our websites, to brochures in our retail stores
3. Aviation Planning – this team ensures we have the right planes in the right place, at the right time. You’ll learn about how we manage and plan our flying programme, and will work within the Aviation Support team loading our flying into our systems, managing seasonal changes, and then communicating these to our suppliers and customers
Whichever teams you join, you’ll have a fantastic opportunity to gain a full insight into our Commercial function and how our business works on a day-to-day basis. You’ll support a portfolio of destinations, making important commercial decisions which will help drive forward the strategy and profitability of TUI UK.
You will also be working towards a Level 3 Business Administrator apprenticeship. If you’d like to know more about the content covered as part of the apprenticeship, you can do so by clicking where you’ll be directed to an external site for more information.
A requirement of this role is that you provide evidence that your grades are equivalent to English GCSEs. If you studied overseas, you may be required to apply for your grades to be converted and you can do this by visiting: Home Page (enic.org.uk) and applying for a statement of comparability.
We reserve the right to withdraw this advert should we receive lots of applications.
ABOUT YOU
Our apprenticeships are suitable for those who meet the following criteria:
4. GCSE (or equivalent) in Maths & English, minimum grade 4/C
5. Excellent IT skills – Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Office
6. Confidence with numbers – attention to detail and analytical skills
7. Strong communication skills both written and verbal
8. Highly organised with the ability to work with multiple priorities to meet set deadlines
9. A proactive problem solver, keen to identify and support process improvements and efficiency
10. Proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships
11. Happy to work both collaboratively as part of a team and autonomously using initiative where required
12. Acts with professionalism
13. Customer focused
14. An interest in the travel industry
Closing date – Monday 24th June 2024
ABOUT OUR OFFER
15. Fantastic holiday benefits including discounts, special offers and the ability to purchase additional ‘TUI time off’
16. Competitive salary with commission scheme that rewards you for exceeding targets & discretionary bonus
17. Private medical Insurance, single cover with option to add dependants
18. Health and Wellbeing support in five key areas – Financial, Health, Social, Community and Career
19. Excellent rates with foreign exchange and discounts with retailers
20. Discovery day – time to spend working at a local charity or community
21. Investment in your development
22. Pension scheme and life assurance
23. On completion of the apprenticeship programme a voucher (amount dependent on the apprenticeship level) and an extra day off
24. Access to student discount via Totum Apprenticeships
25. Network of other apprentices and colleagues
At TUI, we know people are as diverse as the destinations we send our customers to. We love to see your uniqueness shine through and inspire the future of travel. If you would like to read more about what Diversity & Inclusion means to us simply visit .
***As a Disability Confident Employer we guarantee interviews to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and will make reasonable adjustments to assist in the interview process. Within the Commercial Function, there is an under-representation of people from ethnic minority groups. Applications are open to all sectors of the community, but we particularly welcome applicants who are from ethnic minority groups.***