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Role Purpose
We are seeking a Reward Project Manager to lead the implementation of the EU Pay Transparency Directive (EUPTD) across our European operations. This is a fixed-term role until June 2026, critical to delivering compliance, building reporting infrastructure, and embedding fair pay principles into our reward frameworks. You will manage project governance, collaborate across functions, and provide subject matter expertise on pay equity, reporting obligations, and associated change management.
Key Accountabilities
- Directive Implementation: Translate legislative requirements of the EU Pay Transparency Directive (EUPTD) into a structured implementation roadmap across affected countries, for both our corporate offices and leased and managed hotels.
- Project Management: Own the end-to-end delivery of EUPTD implementation, including milestones, risk management, reporting, and cross-functional coordination (HR, Legal, Finance, Talent Acquisition, Comms).
- Gap Analysis & Data Modelling: Identify current-state gaps vs. EUPTD obligations. Lead pay structure reviews, job classification transparency, and employee information disclosure assessments.
- Reporting & Compliance: Develop frameworks to enable consistent and auditable reporting of pay gap data, pay levels by category, and justification of pay differentials. Prepare documentation and ensure readiness for external reporting.
- Technology & Systems Readiness: Partner with HRIS and data teams to ensure systems support compliant data gathering, analysis and reporting.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Engage and influence senior stakeholders, including Works Councils and Unions where applicable. Provide clear updates, escalate risks, and facilitate informed decision-making.
- Training & Communication: Support the development of training materials and comms plans to build internal capability and employee understanding around pay transparency.
- Integration: Align implementation with broader Reward principles, including Pay Equity strategy and ESG/CSRD disclosures.
Key Skills & Experiences:
- Proven experience in Reward or Compensation with direct exposure to pay equity, transparency, or regulatory compliance projects.
- Strong project management capability – able to drive structured delivery across matrixed environments.
- Deep understanding of the EU Pay Transparency Directive.
- Skilled in analysing compensation structures, benchmarking, and job levelling frameworks.
- Proficient in HRIS/reporting platforms (e.g. Oracle, Excel, Power BI).
- Adept at cross-functional stakeholder management and navigating legal/compliance interfaces.
- Experience managing confidential data with discretion and integrity.
- Background in multinational environments with exposure to European markets.
- Experience collaborating with legal counsel, ER, and employee reps on employment legislation.
- Familiarity with ESG and HR compliance landscapes.
- Professional certification in Compensation (e.g. CCP) or HR (e.g. CIPD) is advantageous.
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.
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