Global Environment Strategy Director

IHG Hotels & Resorts; Windsor; Ibrido; GBP 150.000 - 190.000; Tempo pieno

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Room discounts across properties

Recharge days

Volunteering days

IHG Wellbeing framework

Inclusive culture with Room for You

Descrizione del lavoro

IHG Hotels & Resorts seeks a Director, Global Environment Strategy to develop and implement the worldwide environmental sustainability strategy across carbon, energy, waste and water. Based in Windsor, you will lead a team and align metrics with business value, guiding global actions and budgets for carbon, waste and water initiatives.

You will own the Group Environmental Sustainability Plan, translate long-term ambitions into priorities, and report across CDP/CSRD.

Competenze

• Significant environmental sustainability experience with a relevant education/experience mix.
• Expertise across carbon, energy, water and waste, including carbon accounting.
• Ability to derive strategic, commercially useful insights from large datasets and build business cases.
• Ability to explain complex topics clearly and influence senior colleagues across a global organisation.

Mansioni

• Set and maintain global strategies, targets and metrics.
• Own the Group Environmental Sustainability Plan, turning long-term ambitions into clear medium and short-term priorities.
• Lead IHG’s global energy and carbon reduction agenda, including energy efficiency and Science Based Targets.
• Lead environmental reporting across voluntary and regulatory frameworks (CDP/CSRD).
• Own budgets for strategic carbon, waste and water initiatives.

Conoscenze

Carbon accounting

Data analysis

Strategic planning

Stakeholder influence

Descrizione del lavoro

Can you turn complex environmental data into clear choices that lead to real action? As Director, Global Environment Strategy, you’ll develop and implement IHG’s global environmental sustainability strategy across carbon & energy, waste and water. It’s about helping the business focus on the issues and metrics that offer business value alongside positive environmental impact, and deciding where IHG should focus its environmental efforts globally.

Based in our global HQ in Windsor.

Your day-to-day

You’ll work across IHG and with external environmental partners as IHG’s global environmental sustainability subject matter expert, leading a team that includes the Senior Manager, Decarbonisation Delivery and Global Environment Manager (Water & Waste).

• Set and maintain global strategies, targets and metrics.
• Own the Group Environmental Sustainability Plan, turning long-term ambitions into clear medium and short-term priorities.
• Lead IHG’s global energy and carbon reduction agenda, including energy efficiency, Science Based Targets, Low Carbon Pioneers and relevant LTIP targets.
• Lead environmental reporting across voluntary and regulatory frameworks, including CDP and CSRD.

The role also leads IHG’s environmental innovation agenda, helping the business prepare for emerging issues including biodiversity, nature and embodied carbon. Relationships with global environmental NGO partners sit with you, along with support for engagement with IHG Owners’ Associations and technical environmental input for owners, hotels, corporate colleagues, guests and shareholders. You’ll also own budgets for strategic carbon, waste and water initiatives.

What We Need From You

We’re looking for significant environmental sustainability experience with an equivalent combination of education and work‑related experience, and the technical depth to shape strategy and take ownership of its implementation within a global organisation.

• Bring strong expertise across carbon, energy, water and waste, including carbon accounting and Science Based Targets.
• Draw strategic, commercially useful insight from large and complex datasets.
• Build environmental sustainability strategies and business cases, and turn long‑term plans into practical delivery.
• Explain complex technical subjects clearly and influence senior colleagues across a global organisation.

Closing date for applications Friday 20th November 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.

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.

• impressive room discounts across our many properties
• recharge days
• 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.