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Role Purpose

Under the guidance of the VP and Associate General Counsel, this team member will provide legal counsel, support, and representation of the company in several areas of focus related to hotel development, including real estate development, hotel management agreements, capital investments and asset management.

Your Day-to-Day

+ **Legal Management:** Handle legal aspects of hotel development transactions, capital investments, and asset management.

+ **Resource Utilization** : Efficiently use outside counsel and external resources; develop strategic legal directions.

+ **Team Oversight** : Direct internal and external teams, ensuring performance, budget adherence, and timely administrative tasks.

+ **Document Handling:** Draft, negotiate, and review legal documents to meet company standards.

+ **Advisory Role:** Counsel management on legal issues, evaluate legal impacts of strategies, and maintain good client relationships.

+ **Representation** : Support management in dealings with external parties and coordinate with other legal departments.

+ **Outside Counsel Management:** Manage and work with outside counsel and counsel for outside parties as appropriate to ensure Company is represented fairly.

What We Need From You

+ Bachelor's Degree and a Juris Doctor Degree. Member of the Georgia State Bar in good standing or other state, with subsequent membership of the Georgia Bar.

+ At least 3 years’ progressive work-related experience in the practice of law with expertise in real estate, real estate financing, joint ventures and/or hotel management agreements.

+ Substantive experience in at least one of the areas described above.

+ Demonstrated analytical, research, and presentation skills, with ability to speak extemporaneously.

+ Demonstrated ability to advise clients, structure transactions and negotiate and draft a variety of legal agreements.

+ Demonstrated project management experience in organizing, planning, and executing large-scale projects from conception through implementation.

+ Demonstrated experience in leading, advising and developing people.

+ Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills for the purpose of providing information to clients, outside counsel, vendors and other third parties, senior management, and staff.

+ Background in the hotel context is preferred.

**Location:** Atlanta, GA. Our hybrid work structure is an expectation of three (3) days a week in office. This expectation may be adjusted to evolve with the changing needs of the business.

**The salary range for this role is $100,000 to $189,000.** This role is also eligible for bonus pay (as applicable). We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401K, and other benefits to employees.

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At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we work together to deliver True Hospitality for Good on a global scale. With corporate offices and over 6,000 hotel destinations worldwide, a career at IHG is the perfect way to broaden your horizons. You’ll experience our unique culture and brilliant colleagues who will support and inspire you. With a host of corporate opportunities to choose from, wherever you are on your career journey, and whatever you want to achieve there’s Room for You at IHG.

Over recent years, we’ve transformed our company. We have bold ambitions to drive performance and maintain our relentless focus on growth in order to be the hotel company of choice that guests & owners love.

We are a hospitality business at our core and value connections and being together helps us foster a unique sense of belonging that also supports productivity. That’s why here at IHG, we give our colleagues flexibility and balance – working in a hybrid way, blending office and remote working collectively. We recognise that every role is different, that’s why leaders work with teams to determine how and when they collaborate.

We provide a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life. These include impressive room discounts across our many properties, recharge days and volunteering days throughout the year. Through our myWellbeing framework, we are committed to supporting wellbeing in your health, lifestyle, and workplace. We offer a unique and inclusive culture, where there is always Room for You to belong, grow and make a difference.

Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams where we celebrate difference and encourage colleagues to bring their whole selves to work. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other category protected by applicable laws. We promote a culture of trust, support, and acceptance. Always welcoming different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

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**Important information** :

+ The salary range listed is the lowest to highest pay scale we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the pay range will be based on several factors, including relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs.

+ No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until it is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or other form of compensation allocable to a particular employee remain in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual's, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.