Introduction
Step into a senior legal role where your advice will directly enable business growth and shape key commercial decisions across Southeast Asia & Korea. You'll work at the intersection of strategy and execution, supporting complex deals, partnerships and operations. If you're commercially minded, enjoy solving challenges across multiple markets, and want to influence outcomes at scale, this role offers both impact and variety.
Your Day to Day
- Partner with business teams to support growth through new hotel agreements, renewals and commercial negotiations.
- Draft, review and negotiate contracts, while maintaining strong relationships with owners and partners.
- Provide legal guidance on operational, compliance and regulatory matters across multiple markets.
- Lead and manage franchise regulatory filings, ensuring requirements are met and processes remain up to date.
- Work closely with cross‑functional teams to support transactions, deal structuring and risk management initiatives.
What We Need From You
- At least 10 years legal experience in private practice and/or in‑house roles.
- Qualified lawyer with strong experience handling complex, multi‑jurisdictional legal matters.
- Excellent drafting, negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong commercial awareness with the ability to balance legal risk and business objectives.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities independently in a fast‑paced environment.
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.
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.
Don't quite meet every single requirement, but still believe you'd be a great fit for the job We'll never know unless you hit the Apply button. Start your journey with us today.
