Role Purpose

Deliver sustainable profit and competitive advantage to IHG and Owners through high-performance leadership, business partnering and value across the Commercial, Marketing, Products and Technology supply chain.

Key Accountabilities

Building Procurement Expertise:

• Provide commercial support to EC & Senior Leaders to drive sustainable improvement across the Commercial & Marketing (C&M) and Products & Technology (P&T) functions.
• Shape and embed robust sourcing and supplier management processes across the team. Drive continuous improvement and seek and apply industry best practice as appropriate.
• Deliver a cohesive responsible procurement agenda through deploying a comprehensive framework and structure.
• Manage business risk and meet IHG's corporate and social responsibility requirements
• Leverage scale across the enterprise and engage with senior leaders to drive material procurement opportunities throughout the organization.
• Shape, develop and manage a supplier relationship program, bringing commercial insights and innovation to the business.
• Partner with both internal and external stakeholders to identify and understand their procurement needs and opportunities.
• Recruit, lead, and develop a high performing team across the function.

Corporate Procurement:

• Develop and own robust indirect procurement strategies across Marketing & Technology Indirect categories of spend.
• Partner with stakeholders to fully understand their objectives to ensure IHG obtains the best commercial terms from suppliers, whilst managing business risk.
• Implement IHG Global Procurement's S2P Strategy, ensuring that we continually strive to deliver efficiency and effectiveness to IHG and our suppliers.
• Shape and deliver IHG's cost efficiency plans, supporting and influencing adoption of cost consciousness throughout the two functions.

Key Skills & Experiences

• Proven 10 years broad experience across procurement/supply chain fields (hospitality, franchise or similar a plus)
• Influence & negotiation skills to collaborate with key stakeholders, internally and externally, to drive results.
• Mix of business understanding and deep expertise in procurement techniques and best practices.
• Expertise in understanding owner's needs, whilst balancing guest experience needs to drive ROI.
• Proven multi-year broad experience across multiple procurement categories.
• Ability to navigate, influence and manage change in a matrix organization.
• Deep strategic understanding of IHG's global business and hospitality industry dynamics; effective at identifying broader business trends and creating timely response within IHG.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and engaging with senior leadership across a matrix organization.

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