Manager New Hotel Opening, South West Asia

As part of bringing IHG hotels to life, we are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented hospitality professional to manage the successful opening of Company Managed and Franchise Hotels across Southwest Asia. In this role, your primary responsibility will be to ensure that every new property meets IHG's global standards, achieves operational readiness, and launches with strong commercial momentum. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and hotel owners to ensure that projects are delivered on time, within scope, and ready to delight guests from day one. Your key responsibilities will include managing pre-opening activities from signing through to launch across multiple IHG brands, coordinating with various departments such as Technical Services, Operations, Commercial, HR, Finance, IT, and Legal to ensure aligned delivery, tracking and managing project timelines with hotel owners and the Technical Services team, conducting site inspections, operational readiness assessments, and supporting final go-live sign-off. Additionally, you will be responsible for supporting the onboarding and induction of General Managers and Department Heads, facilitating the implementation of IHG systems to meet brand requirements, coordinating pre-launch Sales, Marketing, and Revenue activities to drive early performance, serving as the central point of contact for ownership groups during pre-opening, maintaining strong relationships with owners, PMC partners, consultants, and internal teams, managing project updates, compliance tracking, and issue escalation. Furthermore, you will be expected to achieve annual opening targets and support commercial ramp-up goals, participate in post-opening reviews to capture lessons learned and improve NHOP processes, and assist with licensing, brand compliance, and regulatory approvals. The ideal candidate for this role will have proven experience in hotel pre-opening or project management, preferably in a multi-brand environment, a strong understanding of hospitality operations and pre-opening requirements, excellent project coordination skills within complex, cross-functional environments, strong communication, influencing, and problem-solving skills, ability to manage multiple projects under tight timelines, and familiarity with IHG systems as an advantage. In return, we offer the opportunity to play a key role in the launch of exciting IHG hotels across the region, a collaborative and dynamic work environment with exposure to multiple brands, and career development opportunities within one of the world's largest hotel companies. At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are committed to delivering True Hospitality for Good on a global scale and offer a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life. If you believe you'd be a great fit for this role, hit the "Apply" button and start your journey with us today.,