Director Retention & Asset Management

About us

Whether you're leading at scale or ready to take on your next defining challenge, you'll find support, purpose and the scope to make a real impact at IHG Hotels & Resorts. Across every stage of your career, there's Room for You.

Your day-to-day

You'll manage complex owner, contract and asset management situations, including renewals, renegotiations, ownership changes, and retention risks.
Working closely with both internal and external stakeholders supporting strong commercial outcomes for IHG.
Key responsibilities include:

• Leading renewal and retention activity across existing IHG hotels.
• Identifying portfolio risk and supporting mitigation plans.
• Managing negotiations across franchise, management and related agreements.
• Supporting ownership changes and contract restructures.
• Building relationships with owners, investors, brokers and internal stakeholders.
• Managing projects from evaluation through to signing.

What we need from you

You'll bring strong commercial judgement, confidence in complex negotiations and experience in either hotel real estate, asset management or investment.

You'll also have:

• Strong understanding of hotel contracts, deal structures and owner relationships.
• Excellent financial, commercial and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects.
• A proactive, resilient and solutions-focused approach.
• Fluent English; additional European languages would be highly desirable.

What you can expect from us

You'll join a collaborative global business where you can make a visible impact, helping protect IHG's portfolio, strengthen owner relationships and support long-term growth across Europe.