IHG® Hotels & Resorts has a rich and long-standing heritage in the world of luxury hospitality, with our Luxury & Lifestyle portfolio projected to debut over 50 hotels in 24 countries in 2023. Our properties are based in incredible, inspiring destinations from Rome to Riyadh and Melbourne to Mallorca. The Luxury & Lifestyle collection encompasses five of our unique brands such as Six Senses®, Vignette®, InterContinental®, Kimpton® and Regent®. Each brand brings its own distinctive design and unforgettable service together with extraordinary experiences.
Join us and not only can you benefit from a world of variety and opportunity, but you can also look forward to being part of a company that will appreciate you for simply being you. With an award winning culture, we celebrate our differences and we believe everyone has something unique to bring to each team.
Within this role, the Resourcing Manager - Executive Search will lead on establishing a robust Luxury & Lifestyle General Manager (GM) pipeline to support our ambitious development plans. This includes partnering with key stakeholders, leading on the Luxury and Lifestyle social media plan and actively reengaging our alumni network with our brands.
A little taste of your day-to-day:
Every day is different at IHG, but you’ll mostly be:
- To lead the set up and management of a robust and dynamic talent bank that enables us to move fast with shortlists of external candidates to supplement internal candidates and ensures a diverse slate of qualified candidates versus our Success Profiles.
- Creating a contact strategy for the L&L Talent Bank that informs potential General Managers of the latest developments within our brands and instigates an on-going relationship with candidates.
- To set up and lead an alumni network of former IHG L&L leadership talent, re-engaging them with our brands, growth agenda and opportunities.
- Build and maintain external candidate pools for the assigned segments
- Drive usage of myRecruit (or local job board connections) in CMH
- Strategic supply and demand partnering with identified Regions/ Divisions, linking internal and external talent banks to create a diverse shortlist or identify the need for search.
- Grow and manage trusted relationships with key stakeholders, through a detailed knowledge of supply and demand using analytics that shows pipeline, pipeline status, appointments, process pitfalls.
- Execution of the Luxury & Lifestyle GM social media plan, partnering with the Employer Brand team to ensure our “always on” social media presence is driving interest in IHG and generating high calibre, diverse candidates for specific vacancies and the Talent Bank.
- Building Talent Acquisition leadership capability for our Operational leaders to effectively leverage their networks and LinkedIn/social platforms, attracting Luxury & Lifestyle GM talent to IHG and evaluating its impact.
- Demonstrate an understanding of each brand, it’s brand standards, culture and hallmarks, enabling the selling of opportunities and accurately assessing to match GM’s with roles that match their experience, preferred ways of working and leadership style.
- Monitoring and maintaining systems e.g. Applicant Tracking System (ATS), LinkedIn qualifying and funnelling candidates to global vacancies or the Luxury & Lifestyle Talent Bank.
- Generating the Luxury & Lifestyle GM recruitment dashboard to provide insights on pipeline, impact of campaign activity and gender diversity.
- Identifying events, media and channels for IHG Luxury & Lifestyle to participate and market our opportunities through our local markets.
What we need from you
- A combination of education and work-related experience.
- Extensive Talent Acquisition experience in-house, and ideally agency/search.
- Experience or working in/with Luxury & Lifestyle hospitality or comparable brands.
- International sourcing and recruitment experience.
- Experience of using multiple sourcing strategies for challenging to fill roles.
- Digital marketing understanding & deployment.
- Extensive networks and contacts within the hotel industry.
- Inclusive and unbiased recruitment skills, use of strategies and tools that enable diverse hiring.
- Effective consulting, presentation, influencing and inter-personal skills.
- Ability to navigate and utilize job boards and interface systems including LinkedIn.
- In depth knowledge of acquisition principles, systems and processes.
- Delivery of assessments.
- Social media savvy and overt presence in candidate markets.
- Analytical and creation of data led stories and insight.
- Experience in Behavioral Interviewing and interpreting psychometric evaluations.
- Experience in utilizing an Applicant Tracking System.
- Ability to work across multiple business units.
What we offer
We’ll reward all your hard work with a great salary and benefits – in addition to career development, employee room discounts and great work culture.
Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our colleagues share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care, that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve.
So go on - show us how your passion and personality that are the perfect fit to deliver memorable experiences to our guests.
