2025 Summer Intern-Development

Bringing True Hospitality to the world.

IHG Hotels & Resorts ® is one of the world’s leading hotel companies, with 400,000 colleagues working across more than 100 countries to deliver True Hospitality for Good. When you join us at IHG, you become part of our global family - a welcoming culture of warmth, honesty, and inclusion. We pride ourselves on letting your personality and passions shine, recognizing the individual contributions you make, and supporting your ambition to learn and create your own career path. In making a difference to our guests, owners, colleagues, and communities, every day is a chance to create great and unique experiences in your own way.

About IHG Americas Development Team

The IHG Americas Development Team is responsible for achieving IHG’s growth objectives for the region, including North America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

The Americas Development Team is broadly split into four functions, including the following:

• Field-based Development professionals responsible for owner relationships and bringing new development opportunities to IHG,
• Strategic Market Planning & Feasibility responsible for supporting the field-based Development professionals on internal deal approval and ensuring IHG is being strategic in realizing our growth objectives,
• Development Marketing and Development Information & Analytics responsible for providing Development marketing materials and systems support for IHG and the broader Development team, and
• Transactions & Asset Management responsible for oversight of the franchise and management agreements of IHG’s existing hotels with a focus on owner engagement, problem solving, and retention of IHG’s strategic hotels.

These functions are seamlessly integrated to provide comprehensive support to our owners and internal stakeholders.

Americas Development Summer Internship Program

The Americas Development Summer Internship Program has been thoughtfully designed to allow students with an interest in hotel development exposure to the development process from opportunity sourcing, deal structuring, committee approval, and lifecycle management of the hotel’s performance and adherence to contractual terms post-signing.

The Development Summer Intern will primarily be tasked with shadowing and supporting (i) the Strategic Market Planning & Feasibility and (ii) Transactions & Asset Management teams as further described below.

Strategic Market Planning & Feasibility

The Strategic Market Planning & Feasibility team supports IHG’s Americas Development by assessing the desirability of specific locations in the Americas region, and determine the value, desirability and brand fit of a new or converted hotel into the franchise system. This includes providing analytical support regarding strategic and operational questions across multiple functions (including development, brand strategy and franchise operations).

A major part of the work in Market Planning includes conducting analyses to understand insights regarding market dynamics, business models, emerging growth opportunities, competitor actions, IHG capabilities, IHG economics, and industry financial drivers. Additionally, the Market Planning team is responsible for understanding the effect of a new proposed hotel entering the system and the impact that could occur on existing IHG hotels.

Transactions & Asset Management

The Transactions & Asset Management (“TAM”) team supports IHG’s Americas Development by leading strategic and critical projects to ensure IHG retains and grows its estate of management and franchise agreements (together, the “Contracts”). These Contracts are the assets of the company that TAM is charged with managing by maintaining and enhancing the assets’ value to IHG. TAM responsibilities include coordinating efforts to maintain existing Contracts, resolving existing and new Contract issues, driving IHG’s investment in strategic initiatives, working on IHG’s distressed asset portfolio while balancing the needs of internal IHG stakeholders as well as those of owners, third-party managers, lenders and master/special servicers. This role includes supporting due diligence efforts, negotiating Contracts, following up on deal particulars, and coordinating deal terms with Brand Management, Regional Operations and Finance.

In addition to shadowing and supporting the Strategic Market Planning & Feasibility and Transactions & Asset Management teams a Development Summer Intern will gain broad exposure to functional departments and leaders across IHG. We will do our best to match an intern’s area of interest with cross-departmental exposure to Brand, Legal, Finance, Investment Analysis, Architecture and Design, or other areas of interest.