Design Manager, Luxury & Lifestyle Hospitality

Manager Global Design Strategies, Lifestyle Brands \| Windsor, UK

Trend hunter. Creative strategist. Hospitality designer. If you know how to turn thoughtful design and soulful atmosphere into a strategic brand advantage, we would like to speak with you. Kimpton, Vignette Collection and Hotel Indigo are three of the most characterful brands in the IHG Hotels \& Resorts luxury and lifestyle portfolio. Each one is defined by individual expression and distinct personality: design that feels rooted in its neighbourhood, local social culture and human-centric connections, making each hotel a market leader within each destination. This role ensures that our brands retain their unique design position and stylistic point of view as they grow in scale across the globe.

As Manager of Global Design Strategies, you will be the creative coordinator behind all three brands—turning operational insights, market trends and competitive intelligence into inspirational design, practical style tools and brand-defining atmosphere programmes that keep IHG at the leading edge of lifestyle and boutique hospitality.

Reporting to the Global Head of Design Strategies, Luxury \& Lifestyle Brands, this role will work cross-functionally at the global level to bring our design and style strategies to life.

What you'll do

• Lead the development and implementation of global brand design strategy initiatives across Kimpton, Vignette Collection and Hotel Indigo.
• Oversee new design concepts, style prototypes and commercial pilots, working with external consultants on Design Strategies and Signatures, including style and atmosphere toolkits.
• Work with internal stakeholders to manage brand alignment within global brand initiatives and evolution requirements.
• Own the colleague attire and OS\&E design programmes for each brand, coordinating with operational brand standards and cost impact for our hotels.
• Keep brand toolkits and playbooks current, socializing with regional and hotel teams, ensuring embedment and guest experience impact with optimal results.
• Coordinate category-level bedding and amenities projects for each brand, in coordination with the brand teams and guest share services team.
• Support the development of brand films and presentation materials for growth and brand immersion opportunities.
• Manage project budgets and agency contracts.
• A champion for human-centric design, inclusive design and accessibility.
• Manage all internal communications and relationships across operations, F+B, development, guest shared services, procurement and brand standards teams globally.

• Meet regularly with brand leaders and senior leaders, reporting on the strategic initiative. What you'll bring

• A degree or similar in Interior Design, Industrial Design or Interior Architecture.

• Significant experience in luxury or lifestyle hospitality design, with a focus on design, styling and creative strategies.
• Hands-on experience working with lifestyle brands, aesthetics and standards, focusing on market trends and social influence across hospitality brands.
• A passion for human-centric, inclusive design and setting new standards for accessibility in hospitality spaces.
• Knowledge of impactful sustainability practices across interior design and architecture – resourcing, regenerative design and after-life waste management, etc.
• A track record of partnering cross-functionally and cross-culturally in a global organisation.
• The ability to influence stakeholders and build working relationships that deliver, backed by superior communication and presentation skills.
• 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). If you want to shape the future of boutique hospitality with style and flair, with your design thinking showing up in hotels people talk, this is the place to do it. Apply now.

Closing date for applications Tuesday 21st July 2026

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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. 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.

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