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.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we work together to deliver True Hospitality for Good on a global scale.

With corporate offices and over 6,000 hotel destinations worldwide, a career at IHG is the perfect way to broaden your horizons.

You’ll experience our unique culture and brilliant colleagues who will support and inspire you.

With a host of corporate opportunities to choose from, wherever you are on your career journey, and whatever you want to achieve there’s Room for You at IHG.

Over recent years, we’ve transformed our company.

We have bold ambitions to drive performance and maintain our relentless focus on growth in order to be the hotel company of choice that guests & owners love.

We are a hospitality business at our core and value connections and being together helps us foster a unique sense of belonging that also supports productivity.

That’s why here at IHG, we give our colleagues flexibility and balance – working in a hybrid way, blending office and remote working collectively.

We recognise that every role is different, that’s why leaders work with teams to determine how and when they collaborate.

We provide a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life.

These include impressive room discounts across our many properties, recharge days and volunteering days throughout the year.

Through our my Wellbeing framework, we are committed to supporting wellbeing in your health, lifestyle, and workplace.

We offer a unique and inclusive culture, where there is always Room for You to belong, grow and make a difference.

Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams where we celebrate difference and encourage colleagues to bring their whole selves to work.

IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other category protected by applicable laws.

We promote a culture of trust, support, and acceptance.

Always welcoming different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

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