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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.
We have a brand-new opportunity for a Manager of Global Commercial & Marketing Strategy. 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 20 brands.
The role
The Global Commercial & Marketing Strategy team works across the brand portfolio and delivery functions 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 the Director of Global Commercial & Marketing Strategy and wider stakeholders to deliver analytical insights and company‑leading analyses of IHG, markets, and competitors to evolve and execute IHG’s global commercial & marketing strategy.
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, assisting or leading multiple work streams through project structuring to implementation planning in 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 Committees, 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.
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 organisation and 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.
Apply today to help shape the future of hospitality with IHG Hotels & Resorts.
Closing date for applications 30th October 2025
We provide a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life, including room discounts across our many properties, recharge days and volunteering days throughout the year, and the myWellbeing framework to support your health, lifestyle, and workplace. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other category protected by applicable laws.
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