Manager, Commercial

Shape the Strategy Behind the World's Most Recognised Hospitality Brands -
Bring your consulting expertise to IHG and influence global commercial and marketing decisions that reach millions of guests worldwide.

We have a brand-new opportunity for a
Manager for 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 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.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we're reimagining what hospitality means for the modern traveller and we're looking for strategic thinkers with consulting precision to help lead the way.

What you'll do:
As a member of the strategy team, you will work closely with The Director 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.

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 portfolio of brands based on consumer insights, brand health tracking, competitive intelligence, and market developments.

What You'll Bring:

• Experience of working in strategy in a similar role or top-tier consulting (e.g. McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG)
• 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.

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.

Step out of consulting and into impact.
Apply today to help shape the future of hospitality with IHG Hotels & Resorts.

Closing date for applications 30th October 2025

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.

Don't quite meet every single requirement, but still believe you'd be a great fit for the job? We'll never know unless you hit the 'Apply' button. Start your journey with us today.