Talent Acquisition Manager - Luxury & Lifestyle Americas

An exciting new opportunity within the Luxury & Lifestyle Talent Acquisition team at IHG, focusing on identifying, hiring, and enhancing the onboarding experience for future General Managers within the Americas. This role plays a critical part in driving growth in IHG’s Luxury & Lifestyle portfolio, a key area for the organization’s expansion.

Your day to day

• Driving the execution of identifying future General Managers for IHG’s Luxury and Lifestyle brands within the Americas, to support the future growth strategy of the organisation. 
• Securing positive conversations with passive and non-active candidates, actively networking with GMs within their own networks or using the connections of others within the L&L category to generate engaged and appropriate candidates for specific vacancies or for future talent opportunities. 
• Ensuring that all pipelining and sourcing methodologies are underpinned with driving diversity of hiring practices and outcomes.
• You will contribute to driving and delivery a robust recruitment process, that drives pace and quality which in turn supports superior candidate and Hiring Leader experience throughout the end-to-end recruitment process for all 
• Ensuring that GM’s are successfully matched to IHG’s Luxury & Lifestyle “Success Profiles” with a sounds understanding of the different brand standards, culture, and hallmarks to drive the right outcomes.
• Collating candidate feedback, aligned to the “Guest Obsessed”, “Performance Builders”, “Commercial Entrepreneurs” and “Powerful Connectors” success criteria, enabling motivational and constructive feedback for candidates and curated profiles for further assessments.
• Develop and nurture key relationships with core key stakeholders within L&L, through an in-depth understanding of the market for GM talent, with supported thought leadership, market analytics and delivery of exceptional GM talent.
• Gathering candidate market insight, sharing data on General Managers reward, policies and working practices to enable the TA team to remain competitive and attractive within the marketplace.
• Collaborate with the broader TA Operations team around General Manager hiring best practices, methodologies, and tools to drive shared success globally.
• Partner with TA CoE teams around attraction, employer brand and global TA programmes

What we need from you

• Solid TA experience from either in-house, agency or ideally a search practice, within the US market
• Proven experience of using multiple sourcing strategies, methodologies, and platforms with strong outcome-based results
• The ability to pipeline for current and active requirements alongside future needs 
• The ability to drive continual engagement with future talent through various mediums and methods 
• Ideally, awareness and interest in the Luxury and Lifestyle brands or comparable brands within the Hospitality sector 
• Established candidate and hiring leader experience practices that are well honed and create value and impact
• In depth knowledge of talent acquisition principles, systems, and processes
• Extensive networks and contacts, ideally in the hotel industry
• Inclusive and unbiased recruitment skills, use of strategies and tools that enable diverse hiring
• The ability to drive diverse sourcing and pipelining practices that generate net results well 
• Effective consulting, presentation, influencing and inter-personal skills
• Ability to navigate and utilise various sourcing channels and platforms 
• Delivery of assessments tools and practices

The salary range for this role is $80,000 to $120,000.  This role is also eligible for bonus pay. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401K and other benefits to employees.