Senior Manager - Brand Safety - 18 month FTC

Location: Germany/ Frankfurt

Travel: Regular travel required across Northern Europe  

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.  

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Manager Brand Safety to join our Hotel Lifecycle & Growth team in Germany for an 18 month fixed term contract.  

This role will play a key part in the integration of Hotel Portfolio’s into IHG's brands. Working across IHG and various portfolio stakeholders, you'll coordinate and track the delivery of brand safety & local code requirements identified during the pre-deal due diligence process, helping ensure hotels are integrated safely, efficiently and within agreed timelines.

This is a highly visible role where you'll combine your general engineering understanding / experience and your specific fire safety competencies / expertise, stakeholder management and project leadership to help deliver safe and secure hotels for guests and colleagues while supporting successful owner outcomes.

Your day to day

You’ll play a key role in delivering safe, compliant hotels ready to open on schedule as IHG-branded properties.

In this role, you will ensure IHG brand standards and local regulatory requirements are assessed, documented, and aligned to project timelines.

• Leading the process with IHG and the assigned project team to resolve identified brand safety & local code shortfalls.  
• Tracking progress, maintaining auditable records and ensuring clear visibility of completion status.  
• Working directly with IHG and the local hotel teams and stakeholders to agree practical solutions for complex properties.  
• Conducting regular site visits to support implementation, provide and issue resolution required and report on the progress of works.  
• Act as a central point of communication, coordination and reporting for all project stakeholders across the duration of the signing to opening program.  
• Remain engaged post opening to ensure any unfinished activities are addressed and to support the Hotel Operator in the first few months

What we need from you

We're looking for someone with strong technical expertise, excellent project management skills, and the ability to build relationships across multiple stakeholder groups.

You'll bring:

• A wide experience and knowledge of Mechanical, Electrical & Fire Safety systems.  
• Experience in the design, implementation, commissioning, certification and handover of MEP & Fire Safety systems.  
• A recognised qualification in fire safety engineering or a related discipline.  
• Knowledge of German fire safety regulations.  
• Familiarity with international fire safety codes and risk-based fire safety assessments.  
• Fluent business-level German and English, both written and spoken.
• Strong organisation, stakeholder management, and project coordination skills.  

Your ambition. Your growth. Your success. 
If this is You, there's Room for You.