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Role Purpose

The Global Commercial & Marketing Strategy team works across the brand portfolio and delivery functions of the Global Commercial & Marketing organization to drive key business decisions against the highest impact areas, informing portfolio and organization strategy. As a member of the strategy team, you will work closely with Director and VP of Global Commercial & Marketing Strategy to deliver insightful and company-leading analyses of IHG, markets, and competitors required to evolve and drive execution of IHG’s global commercial & marketing strategy. The Strategy Manager will use rigorous analytical and financial modeling skills to construct frameworks and business models to analyze key issues facing the company and its brands and recommend answers to complex business questions that enable long-term revenue and profit growth.

Key Accountabilities -

+ Enable strategy team members and project leaders to deliver the highest value customer growth initiatives by providing analytical support, problem insight, and driving key deliverables.

+ Develop persuasive and compelling storylines around strategic initiatives for discussion and consensus.

+ Build/maintain appropriate financial, market, industry, and consumer models to support planning and analysis work.

+ Provide leadership for workstreams within larger strategy projects. Assist or lead on multiple work streams within complex projects all the way from project structuring to implementation planning, effectively navigating a complex multi-region, multi-function matrix organization.

+ Build key relationships with colleagues in other departments and collaborate on data analysis and strategic initiatives.

+ Develop presentations to support strategy discussions at Leadership Committee, project steering committees, and occasionally Board of Directors meetings.

+ Maintain/integrate/leverage current information sources of competitor intelligence and industry trends, including ongoing analysis leading to new insights for senior management.

+ Identify and capture key regional challenges and opportunities across portfolio of brands based on consumer insights, brand health tracking, competitive intelligence, market developments.

Key Skills & Experiences

Education –

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Strategy, Finance or a relevant field of work, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience. MBA preferred.

Experience –

Likely to be 2-4 years in progressive work experience in strategy, consultancy, or 5-7 years corporate level experience with exposure to a broad range of strategy issues. Previous travel industry experience is desirable but not required. Previous leisure/hospitality, franchise industry, or brand strategy experience is desirable but not required.

Interpersonal and Technical Skills and Knowledge –

+ Demonstrated strategic thinking through a proven ability to analyze markets, performance data, and business issues and draw insight/conclusions.

+ Experience framing complex problems and providing structured analysis and recommendations via visualization and storytelling.

+ Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written to address all levels within the organization to develop consensus.

+ Excellent interpersonal skills required to build relationships across business units for collaboration, data requests, and joint analysis.

+ Ability to balance multiple projects, priorities, and stakeholders and prioritize and manage time effectively.

+ Strong financial modeling (DCF, NPV, accounting) / analytical skills.

+ High degree of accountability, self-motivation, and personal responsibility.

+ Results oriented.

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.