Bringing True Hospitality to the World.

We want to welcome you to a world of bringing True Hospitality to everyone. When you join us at IHG®, you become part of our global family. A welcoming culture of warmth, honesty, and a passion for providing True Hospitality.

We pride ourselves on letting your personality and passions shine, recognizing your individual contribution, and supporting your ambition to learn and create your career path. In making a difference to our guests and owners, colleagues, and communities, every day is a chance to create great and unique experiences in your way.

With over 370,000 colleagues in nearly 100 countries sharing our values, countless opportunities are at your fingertips. We’re growing; grow with us.

************ This is a hybrid role where you are in the office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays here in the Atlanta market, so it must be local. *****************

Role Purpose

To drive marketing spend efficiency globally through the planning, implementation and governance of annual marketing spend. Leveraging company best practices, systems and tools to ensure governance of financial, procurement and reporting processes and regulations. Ensure program marketing initiatives support overall multi-brand and relationship marketing vision, objectives and goals while remaining competitive in the industry, agency and media landscape.

Key Accountabilities

• Overall annual marketing spend tracking, reporting, execution, delivery and senior leadership communications.
• Optimize spend mix and return through traditional and non-traditional communication vehicles, leveraging business intelligence reporting and analysis to implement investment recommendations.
• Evaluate pro-forma and post program/campaign financial analyses, including incremental impact and return on investment, to incorporate findings into future investment allocations.
• Facilitate planning conversations with cross-functional stakeholders and SMEs to align on and set program/campaign objectives, ensuring proper governance, performance monitoring and progress readouts to Director at defined intervals (and other senior leadership as needed)
• Manage internal/external agency and partner relationships to ensure clear communications in the process while building strong, trusting relationships across the organization to support overall team objectives, ensure appropriate involvement from key stakeholders and promote effective socialization and exposure of campaigns.

Key Skills & Experiences

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a relevant field or equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.

Experience

• Eight or more years of progressive work related to business analysis, financial analysis, and more analytical mindset
• Manager role and having higher level stakeholders

Technical Skills & Knowledge

• Familiarity with marketing spend tracking techniques and systems
• Experience with test-and-learn scenarios and planning matrices, execution on and offline channels.
• Experience with campaign management and financial management tools (Adobe Workfront, Decideware Scope Manager, Smartsheet, Ariba and Peoplesoft)
• Understand iing Ariba and PeopleSoft
• Firm grasp of relational database concepts. 3rd party tools Adobe Workfront and Scope Manager approvals and DOA's
• Ability to direct budget planning process(es) to build compelling business cases and spend requests
• Experience in handling sensitive consumer data such as financial records a plus.
• Experience with identifying marketing opportunities utilizing third party information.
• Ability to translate observations into finding and business applications.
• Extremely detail-oriented, highly organized with excellent time management skills and a technical aptitude.
• Team player with a positive attitude, excellent interpersonal skills and a focus on problem solving.
• Excel Pivot tables 6/7 out of ten, not advanced modeling, reporting, tables task,

We’ll reward all your hard work with a great salary and benefits – including a great room discount and superb training.

Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, do the right thing, and welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care, that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests, and always look for ways to improve - click here to find out more about us.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to an individual’s race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

IHG is committed to promoting a culture of inclusion where everyone feels safe, respected and valued. We seek talent from all backgrounds to join our teams and encourage our colleagues to bring their authentic and best selves to work.

Not Applicable for Colorado Applicants.

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