2025 Legal Placement in Watford, United Kingdom

We are looking for an enthusiastic intern to join our Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Legal team on a 12-month placement. This placement is ideally suited to a student currently undertaking an undergraduate or master’s degree, with a passion for all things legal. This role is a great opportunity to gain hands-on experience of how an in-house legal function supports the business. Hilton’s first-class Legal Team supports our corporate functions and hotels with a wide variety of matters across EMEA.

From day one, our placement students are fully integrated into Team Hilton and are involved in different aspects of the business. Our placements offer vast exposure and opportunities, such as networking with senior executives, involvement in regional conferences and for some, international travel.

Based in our EMEA headquarters, Watford, you will be part of a cohort of 40 Interns and take part in regular connect meetings, short assignments and feedback sessions designed to support your development. You will benefit from a subsidised restaurant, a games area and a free in-house gym.

The Opportunity

As the EMEA Legal intern, you will play an active role in our continued success. You will carry out a range of support activities for the Legal team and our strategic business partners, as well as having ownership of certain projects.

You will gain an understanding of different types of contracts: from the beginning of a hotel deal, the process of contract drafting and negotiation, and through to the exciting stage of signing the final agreement. You will also be involved in a wide variety of contracts across EMEA, covering areas such as real estate leases, food and beverage, supplier contracts, employment, and others. In addition, you will work with our dispute resolution team.

As part of this internship, we are also pleased to offer the opportunity to work with our Compliance function, allowing you to gain an insight into how Hilton maintains its integrity in all that we do, from due diligence through to the application and training of our company policies and codes of conduct.

Your work will include both projects and day-to-day activities. Some of your day-to-day tasks may include legal research, working with our external panel of lawyers, contract drafting, assisting with contract reviews, assisting in the delivery and preparation of training sessions for our business partners, assisting with preparing contracts for execution and filing of key legal documentation, supporting team administration and providing various types of company secretarial support.

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 to enhance their skills and contribute meaningfully to ongoing projects.
• Networking : Our interns can 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.
• Salary & Benefits : £24,000 Gross PA & private healthcare.

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.
• Must be a current Bachelor’s or Master’s student with a required 12-month year in industry placement as part of your degree.
• Must be studying an LLB Law Degree.
• Must be available to start on the 7th of July 2025, for the full 12-month duration.
• Must be eligible to work in the UK. If you are a non-UK national, without EU Settled or Pre-Settled Status then you will need to be studying at a UK university to be eligible to undertake a placement here.
• Must be fluent in English (speaking, reading and writing).
• You should be able to demonstrate a genuine interest in Legal.
• Highly personable and able to demonstrate a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• You should be able to maintain confidentiality regarding sensitive information.
• You should be able to effectively handle multiple, concurrent demands and appropriately prioritise responsibilities.

What is it like working for Hilton?

Hilton is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing hospitality companies, with 24 distinct brands and over 8,000 locations.

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.

CORPORATE PLACEMENTS (hilton.com) (https://jobs.hilton.com/emea/en/Internships_EMEA)

Selection Process

Please apply now, applications close on Sunday 3rd November 2024 . We receive a volume of applications, 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 may be invited to complete a digital one-way video interview, and an online assessment. This process 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!

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Title: 2025 Legal Placement

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Requisition ID: EUR015EH

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