Job Description

The Senior Manager, Groups & Events Enterprise Alignment supports enterprise planning, governance, and execution for Groups & Meetings. This role ensures enterprise priorities are translated into disciplined plans, tracked effectively, and delivered through strong internal processes.

Your day to day

• Identify and synthesize key challenges and opportunities across the G&E portfolio, drawing on consumer insights, performance data, competitive intelligence, and market trends to generate actionable recommendations for senior leadership.
• Build and maintain market and industry intelligence to support enterprise planning, scenario analysis, and investment prioritization.
• Monitor competitor intelligence and industry developments on an ongoing basis, translating findings into forward-looking insights for the G&E leadership team.
• Partner with strategy lead and initiative owners to structure complex problems, define analytical frameworks, and drive key deliverables from diagnosis through implementation planning.
• Lead enterprise-level program management across the G&E initiative portfolio, owning planning cadence, workplans, and milestone accountability.
• Develop and maintain enterprise governance processes, forums, and decision logs that enable clear, timely decision-making across a complex multi-region, multi-function matrix organization.
• Coordinate inputs across functions to support annual and multi-year planning cycles, ensuring alignment between strategic priorities and resource allocation.
• Maintain enterprise operating rhythm including status reporting, issue tracking, risk escalation, and budget and forecast transparency.
• Develop high-quality materials for Leadership Committee, project committees meetings and SteerCo reviews— translating complex analysis into clear, compelling narratives.
• Provide leadership across multiple workstreams within large-scale strategy projects, from initial scoping through execution planning.
• Build trusted relationships across commercial, technology, finance, and regional functions, serving as a connective tissue between strategy and delivery.
• Ensure consistency of documentation, ways of working, and internal processes across G&E initiatives.

What we need from you

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Strategy, Finance, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Advanced degree or PMP preferred but not required
• 7+ years of progressive experience in strategy, management consulting, or enterprise program leadership, preferably within hospitality, travel, or a complex multi-unit consumer business
• Demonstrated ability to lead strategic analysis and translate market, competitive, and consumer insights into actionable recommendations for senior leadership
• Experience building financial and business models to support planning, forecasting, and investment prioritization
• Proven track record leading complex, cross-functional initiatives across a matrixed organization — from problem structuring through implementation
• Strong executive communication skills with experience developing materials for senior leadership, steering committees, or board-level audiences
• Familiarity with enterprise governance frameworks, program management methodologies, and operating rhythm design
• Ability to build credibility and influence without authority across commercial, finance, technology, and regional functions
• Experience in Groups & Events, commercial strategy, or above-property hospitality roles a plus

Location - Our hybrid work structure is an expectation of three (3) days a week in the Atlanta office.  This expectation may be adjusted to evolve with the changing needs of the business.

The salary range for this role is $115,000.00 to $130,000.00. This role is also eligible for bonus pay.  We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401K, and other benefits to employees.

At IHG, we’ve made a promise. As one of the world’s leading hotel groups, we’re here to deliver True Hospitality for Good. Making our guests and colleagues feel welcome, cared for, recognised and respected – wherever they are in the world. Want to be part of the journey?