Director, Development-seak(Korea Based)

**About us**
IHG Hotels & Resorts, we've got a habit of making things happen. From being the first hotel brand to franchise with Holiday Inn, or taking the industry's first online booking; to growing the world's biggest luxury hotel brand in InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, and launching the industry's first loyalty programme

Today, you can find our brands in more than 100 countries, with nearly 6,000 hotels and 886,000 guest rooms. But we're not slowing down in our quest to be the first choice for guests and hotel owners. We're enhancing world-class brands and adding new ones, investing in technology and making sure our business is slick and agile enough to power industry leading net-rooms growth in the world's most attractive markets.

**Your day to day**
The purpose of the role is to drives the strategic growth of IHG Brands in SEAK to achieve IHG’s growth ambition and the role incumbent is/will be IHG’s ambassador and primary corporate development representative for Korea.
- Develop and drive country specific growth strategies to deliver IHG’s short
- and longer-term growth ambition.
- Builds trusted partnerships and drives alignment with internal & external stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes and deliver the growth ambition.
- Structure, negotiate, and sign definitive contracts of single unit transaction or portfolio for conversions or new builds to (i) maximize value creation for IHG and (ii) lay a strong foundation for handover to internal teams.
- Responsible for the end-to-end development cycle which includes (i) relationship building and networking with owner/development communities, (ii) deal sourcing/hunting, evaluation, pitching, structuring, integration, closing; and (iii) handover to internal IHG stakeholders.
- Be IHG’s ambassador and primary corporate development representative for Korea.
- Establish the Korea desk for SEAK to forge relationships with Korean investors and attract Korea funded projects for IHG

**What we need from you** Education**
- Qualification in either Hotel Management, BS / BA in Business, Finance, or Real Estate; or equivalent experience.

**Experience**
- Minimum 8-years of experience in hotel development, hotel investment/ acquisition, hotel management or hospitality or management consulting firm, investment banking or other capital markets related function.
- Knowledge of financing principles and deal structuring as well as hotel real estate market.
- Knowledge of hotel operations highly desired.
- Must have proven track record of deal flow/closure; knowledge of management / franchise contracts and joint venture agreements.

**Technical Skills and Knowledge**
- Leadership skills, confident, critical thinker, savvy, and strong influencing, analytical, negotiation, communication and consensus-building skills, effective presentation and interpersonal skills, financial modeling and report writing skills.
- Multi-lingual - Fluency in English and Mandarin.
- Requires international travel.
- Ability to carry out financial analysis to evaluate deals effectively.
- Requires strong internal functional relationships and understanding of IHG internal processes and brand standards.
- Entrepreneurial nature, constructive dissatisfaction mindset, developer instinct, solution oriented, agile, owner mindset, not binary - able to deal with ambiguity, perseverance, able to adapt and deal with different personality types.
- Leadership competencies: critical thinking, intuitive, good communicator, listens effectively, drive results, sets priorities, adaptable, confident, Influences

**What we offer**
IHG Hotels & Resorts, we've got a habit of making things happen. From being the first hotel brand to franchise with Holiday Inn, or taking the industry's first online booking; to growing the world's biggest luxury hotel brand in InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, and launching the industry's first loyalty programme

Today, you can find our brands in more than 100 countries, with nearly 6,000 hotels and 886,000 guest rooms. But we're not slowing down in our quest to be the first choice for guests and hotel owners. We're enhancing world-class brands and adding new ones, investing in technology and making sure our business is slick and agile enough to power industry leading net-rooms growth in the world's most attractive markets.

Job Reference: EMEAA37377