.**About Us**Bringing True Hospitality to the world.We want to welcome you to a world of bringing True Hospitality to everyone. When you join us at IHG®, you become part of our global family. A welcoming culture of warmth, honesty, and a passion for providing True Hospitality.We pride ourselves on letting your personality and passions shine, recognizing the individual contribution you make and supporting your ambition to learn and create your own career path. In making a difference to our guests and owners, colleagues and communities, every day is a chance to create great and unique experiences, in your own way.With over 370,000 colleagues in nearly 100 countries sharing our values, there's countless opportunities at your fingertips.We're growing; grow with us.**Your dayto day**Serve as a liaison between multiple brand teams, operations, procurement, outside vendors and hotels to develop go-to market initiatives, innovation, and brand programs. This role requires strategic thinking, the ability to transform data and insights into actionable business initiatives, and leading cross-functional teams. The Associate Manager will track business performance, identify opportunities/gaps, present recommendations and work together with a cross-functional teams to execute brand initiatives.**Essential Duties and Responsibilities - (Key Activities)**- Assist the department head, directors and managers to develop compelling product launch plans and materials including the development of program specifications and collateral materials for the brand and hotels.- Complete and/or manage assigned special projects. Work with internal and external resources to establish and/or communicate project timetables, action steps and status updates. Follow up, as appropriate, to ensure timely execution to meet established deadlines.- Manage coordination of upkeep and enhancements to brand experience space and additional brand experience by leading consumer insights, pilots in hotels and/or building out experiences within a test environment.- Prepare a variety of departmental reporting/presentation materials, gathering and summarizing information from various sources as requested. Format reports and presentation materials utilizing various spreadsheet graphics, and/or software.- Research and compile a variety of moderately complex data to include creating spreadsheets or databases for maintaining and reporting management information; may require some analysis of marketing data, programs, or trends.- Monitor departmental budgets to include vendor billing, estimates, invoice coding and tracking, end of month reconciliation, etc. Report discrepancies or budgetary issues to Manager or VP.- Manage and process brand standard waivers for the department and support quality & brand standard processes- Serve as the assigned brand liaison with stakeholders on matters on brand development