IHG Hotels & Resorts
Senior Design Manager, Luxury Hospitality
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Senior Manager Global Design Strategies, Luxury Brands | Windsor, UK
For those who believe luxury should restore, awaken and leave a lighter footprint, this is a chance to shape hospitality that feels as meaningful and transformative as it is beautiful.
Six Senses, Regent and InterContinental sit at the top of the IHG Hotels & Resorts portfolio, and all are growing in a highly competitive and fast-moving creative market. Design strategy is what gives each brand its edge, style definition, emotional impact and unmistakable soul. Working at the intersection of brand articulation, guest experiences, luxury and UHNW consumer insight and hospitality innovation, this role translates brand strategy into compelling physical design and style experiences.
As our Senior Manager Global Design Strategies, you will help shape the stories, design concepts and atmosphere cues that help owners, architects and design partners bring our luxury brands to life. Part creative visionary, part design translator, you will connect brand ambition with scalable design guidelines and style programmes that move the commercial performance and guest love for each brand. This role will report directly to the Global Head of Design Strategies, Luxury & Lifestyle Brands with coordination across the global business and key brand leaders.
What you'll do
- Lead the development and implementation of global brand design strategy initiatives across InterContinental, Regent and Six Senses. This includes our hotel projects as well as resort and Branded Residential guidelines.
- Oversee new design strategies and Design Signatures, working with external consultants and internal stakeholders on design, atmosphere and style toolkits.
- Ensure every strategy clearly differentiates each brand with a clear and scalable point of view in a highly competitive and growing market.
- A champion for sustainability, technology and well-being strategies across all brands.
- Own the InterContinental and Regent scent and sonic identity, colleague attire and OS&E programmes, along with build standards and the annual brand standards process.
- Work with the Six Senses team to build strategic initiatives around sustainability and experiential design.
- Coordinate the Luxury Fundamentals toolkit to ensure all of our design initiatives (cross-categories) are leading to the basic requirements for our luxury guests and owner investments.
- Keep brand toolkits and playbooks current for regional and hotel teams, monitoring the commercial impact of design initiatives.
- Support the development of brand films and presentation materials for growth and brand design immersion opportunities.
- Manage project budgets and agency contracts.
- Manage all internal communications and relationships across operations, F+B, development, guest shared services, procurement and brand standards teams globally.
- Present to key leaders with updates and progress on initiatives on a regular basis.
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What you'll bring
- A qualification in Interior Design or Interior Architecture and significant experience in luxury hospitality design, spanning design implementation, hotel styling and creative strategies.
- Hands-on experience working with luxury brands, aesthetics and standards.
- Strong knowledge of sustainable and regenerative design practices.
- A track record of partnering cross-functionally and cross-culturally in a global organisation.
- Superior communication and presentation skills, with the ability to lead virtual teams of external consultants and agencies.
- Process discipline: organised, detail oriented and comfortable leading virtual teams of consultants and agencies.
- A good working knowledge of InDesign, PowerPoint and Excel – able to build presentations and communications through graphic design tools (SketchUp experience a bonus).
This is a rare opportunity for a creative design strategist who can turn regenerative thinking and sensory experience into places guests don’t just visit but truly feel. If that sounds like your kind of work, we would love to hear from you. Apply now.
Closing date for applications Tuesday 21st July 2026
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.
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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 myWellbeing 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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