HR GRADUATE PROGRAMME 2025

Have you recently graduated and are wondering what’s next? We are offering HR graduates the chance to develop an amazing career in HR in hospitality! With over 55 hotels in the UK & Ireland, we have a fantastic team of over 5,000 people who we want to feel welcome, rewarded and enjoy coming to work with us every day. We are one of the fastest growing hotel chains with an exciting opportunity to not only take part in our Human Resources Graduate Programme but also grow within an ever-expanding company to achieve your career goals.

The Graduate Programme

This is a rotational programme covering all areas of the HR department such as generalist HR, recruitment, Group HR, L&D and much more! You will gain experience and insight into employment law across the UK and Ireland. Extensive personal and professional development is provided throughout the programme with training workshops, webinars and project work. Fixed term 2-year contract with the aim to be in a permanent role by the end of the programme. Opportunity to work hybridly with the opportunity to work one day from home per week. We will consider base location in any of the 36 locations across the UK and Ireland that we have hotels.

What we are looking for?

• Flexibility on location to get the best out of your programme
• Passion for hospitality
• A proactive and positive attitude
• Resilient and strong time management skills
• A degree or equivalent in HR or CIPD Level 5
• Ideally you will have worked in a Hotel/Leisure/ or Hospitality setting
• Right to work in the UK & Ireland
• Ability and willingness to travel across the UK and Ireland, sometimes requiring overnight stays

What’s in it for you?

• Extensive personal and professional development
• One-to-one coaching with Senior HR team
• Amazing employee benefits including staff rates from as little as £20 BB!

What’s next?

Applications close on 2nd June 2025. Interviews to take place in June 2025. Opportunity to start with us in September 2025.

About Leonardo Hotels

At Leonardo Hotels, our vision is very simple: to be the first choice for everyone who values genuine hospitality. Built on decades of hotelier know-how, we are part of the Fattal Hotels Group, which operates over 230 hotels across Europe and Israel. We look after over 50 hotels here in the UK & Ireland, and have come a long way since we opened our first hotel in Ireland back in 1993! With approximately 4,000 employees and multiple brands, we are a dynamic, innovative and fast-growing company.

As an employer, we put a big emphasis on career development and as a rule we recruit our operations team members for personality - it is all about how you interact with others and how you can demonstrate our values: Consistent, Friendly, Genuine, Positive and Willing. At Leonardo Hotels, each and every team member is individually valued and respected for who you are. All careers within our hotels offer customer interaction, a great deal of variety, and a fun and friendly working environment. We strive to make all of our hotels great places to work, and get our teams involved in activities such as summer barbecues, Christmas parties, Thank You Week and birthday celebrations!

We also offer excellent employee benefits, including huge discounts on overnight stays at our hotels as well as performance-based rewards via our Leo Points system - these range from vouchers to a well-deserved day off!