Digital, Data

**Start date**: September 2025
**Salary**: Starting at £35k per annum with increases as you progress through the programme
**Location**: Holborn/Dunstable, Hybrid, minimum 3 days per week in the office.
**Application closing date**: 6th January 2025 with Assessment Day to take place in February 2025
**About us**:
Premier Inn is the UK's leading budget hotel chain with 800+ hotels across the UK and beyond with super-comfy beds, mouth-watering meals and amazing team members.
Our parent company Whitbread is a FTSE 100 company and is also home to our beloved restaurant brands like Beefeater and Brewers Fayre. We continue to innovate and have big growth plans in the UK and internationally, including Germany & the UAE.
**About the Role**:
Our Digital, Data & Technology Graduate Scheme offers you the chance to join the UK’s largest hospitality business and gain broad hands-on experience with a variety of areas such as Technology Operations, Digital App & Website Development, Information Security and Decision Science & Data Analytics.
You’ll be joining us at an exciting time as we invest significantly into our technology platforms and continue to evolve our digital and data capabilities for the future. Having recently delivered a multi-year upgrade to our reservation system and technology stack across over 900 hotels across the UK and Germany, we are continuing to drive further improvements to our digital networks and systems that will improve the quality of service to our guests.
During this 2-year program you’ll be in a business critical role from day one and will undertake a minimum of 4 rotations where you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of exciting projects and solve real world challenges, enabling you to gain a breadth of experience and a deep understanding of our business.
Alongside your practical work, we’ll support your personal growth with mentoring, peer support, and professional development and training. Once you have successfully completed your 2 year programme you can expect to progress into a permanent role where you can continue to develop your skills and experience towards becoming a future senior leader within our business.
At Premier Inn, we believe in a collaborative and inclusive culture where everyone can thrive. Whether you’re getting involved in our inclusion networks, organising team events, or playing a key role in one of our workstreams, you’ll have the chance to make a real difference to both our business and our customers.
**Who We’re Looking For**:
This is a highly challenging but hugely rewarding programme designed for graduates who have the desire, motivation and potential to become future senior leaders within our business.
- A strong interest in all things digital and technology.
- Strong analytical and data skills with a problem-solving mindset.
- A passion for innovation and the desire to work on projects that will improve the digital experience for millions of our guests.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
- You must be able to work in both Holborn and Dunstable locations.

**What We Offer**:

- Starting salary of £35,000 per annum
- Rotations across various Digital, Data & Technology roles to develop a strong foundation for a future leadership career in our business.
- Mentoring, peer support and professional development and training.
- A place where you can learn from industry experts and put your knowledge into action right away.
- A range of benefits, including up to 10% annual bonus, BUPA healthcare, pension, and 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
- Discounts of up to 60% on Premier Inn stays and 25% off at our restaurant brands.
- Access to our Sharesave scheme with a 20% discount on Whitbread shares.
- Mentoring, peer support and leadership training.

**What’s Next**: