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Shape the Strategy Behind the World’s Most Recognised Hospitality Brands - bring your strategic expertise to IHG to influence global commercial and marketing decisions that reach millions of guests worldwide.
Role Overview
Strategy Manager. In this highly visible role, you’ll translate insight into action, partnering with senior leadership to define and deliver high-impact global initiatives across our leading portfolio of 20 brands.
At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we’re re‑imagining what hospitality means for the modern traveller and we’re looking for strategic thinkers to help lead the way.
The Global Commercial & Marketing Strategy team at IHG leads major strategic projects across the brand, marketing, loyalty and commercial services functions to drive key business decisions against the highest impact areas, informing brand portfolio, growth and organization strategy.
As a member of the strategy team, you will work closely with the Director of Global Commercial & Marketing Strategy and wider stakeholders to deliver insightful and company‑leading analyses of IHG and our competitors to evolve and drive the execution of IHG’s global strategy.
The Strategy Manager will use rigorous analytical and financial modeling skills to construct frameworks and business models to analyse key issues facing the company and its brands and recommend answers to complex business questions that enable long‑term revenue and profit growth.
Key Focus Areas
* Enable strategy team members and project leaders to deliver the highest value customer growth initiatives by providing analytical support, 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 matrix organisation.
* 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 the portfolio of brands, based on consumer insights, brand health tracking, competitive intelligence, and market developments.
Technical Skills and Knowledge
* Demonstrated strategic thinking through a proven ability to analyse 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 modelling (DCF, NPV, accounting) / analytical skills.
* High degree of accountability, self‑motivation, and personal responsibility.
* Results oriented.
Benefits
At IHG, you’ll join a strategy team that works at the heart of a global FTSE 100 business, with the scope to make a visible impact.
Closing date for applications 19th December 2025
EEO Statement
IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard 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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