Develop with us
Built on hospitality and careers that serve you. Whatever stage you’re at, we offer development and opportunities for all.
Introduction
We’ve launched as many careers as we’ve made hot dinners. With 300 years of hospitality heritage behind Premier Inn and Whitbread, we know how to help people grow skills, confidence and long-term careers.
Introduction
A place to grow, step by step
Our Premier Inn hotels are where most people begin their career with us – welcoming guests, running great stays and being part of teams that bring hospitality to life every day.
Here at Whitbread, Premier Inn is known for growing its own. Many of our leaders started in our hotels or restaurants, learning on the job and progressing step by step. It’s why people join us – and why so many stay.
So, whether you’re new to hospitality or ready for your next move, our development programmes are designed to help you build a career, not just do a job.
Development
It’s learning built around you
Learning and development here is delivered by our Talent & Capability team, supporting our teams across hotels, restaurants and our Support Centre.
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Real hospitality careers – wherever you’re based:
• Learning that fits around real roles and working patterns • Skills you can use every day, with guests, teams or specialist partners • Clear pathways from entry-level roles into management, specialist and leadership careers
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Development can include:
• Structured inductions, tailored to your role • Skills frameworks and role-based learning • Free apprenticeships for all ages, from entry level to leadership • Internal management and leadership programmes • Virtual, face-to-face and on-the-job learning • Specialist training environments, including our F&B Academy
Choose your path
Where could your Premier Inn career lead?
Hotel & Restaurant development
Build confidence, capability and leadership skills in Premier Inn hotels and restaurants — where great stays, great food and great teams come together.
Support Centre development
Grow specialist expertise and leadership capability at Whitbread’s Support Centre, supporting Premier Inn hotels across the UK and beyond.
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Ops Development
Growing careers in Premier Inn hotels and restaurants
Our hotels are the starting point for thousands of Premier Inn careers and often where people discover just how far they can go.
From day one, you’ll be supported through:
• A Warm Welcome to our business
• An award-winning 12-week induction programme
• Skills matrices that support progression in role
• Free apprenticeships for all ages, from Level 2 to Level 5
• Clear routes into management through internal programmes
Whether you want to lead a team, manage a hotel or explore new opportunities across the business, Premier Inn gives you a strong foundation and Whitbread gives you the scale to grow.
Support Centre Development
Supporting Premier Inn. Shaping Whitbread.
Whitbread’s Support Centre brings together the teams that support our hotels and help shape the future of Premier Inn.
You’ll start with a Warm Welcome induction, followed by access to Get Set Grow, our development offer covering:
• Essential skills for success at Whitbread
• Role-specific and technical learning
• Leadership and career development programmes
• Free professional and degree-level apprenticeships, open to all ages and career stages
Many people move between hotel roles and the Support Centre over time taking their hospitality experience into new and influential career paths.
Why join us?
What's Inn it for you?
Diversity & Inclusion
We have a place for you
We give everyone the opportunity to grow, develop and be their best. No barriers to entry, no limits to ambition. We're committed to being for everyone – so that means creating an inclusive culture where everyone belongs and different perspectives are valued.
Benefits
We look after our people
Enjoy the perks and rewards that working for the UK’s number 1 hotel brand can bring. From money off hotel stays and restaurant visits to celebrating your milestones here.
Development
We build careers
We’re powered by brilliant people, smart ideas and a business with the track record to make it happen for you. Get the most from your career as part of a growing business that creates opportunity at whatever stage you're at.
People stories
You're in good company
Curt's story
"People don’t stay because they’re coasting. They stay because the company never lets you stand still.”
Hayley's story
"I feel lucky to still feel, all these years on, that same sense of belonging I felt at 16."
Stuart's story
“This is a people business through and through. We reward our teams in ways that are unheard of in other companies.”