Description for External Candidates

CORPORATE SUMMER INTERNSHIPS (ATLANTA, USA)

We're looking for emerging leaders. If you've got ambition, ideas and want to work somewhere that appreciates you for who you are, apply for?IHG's Summer Internship Program?based in our Americas headquarters in Atlanta.

While you work on projects that will shape the future of hospitality, you'll experience a structured Learning and Development curriculum designed especially to help you gain an insider's view of hospitality operations, sales, strategy, finance, technology and other areas. Everything you learn will prepare you for career success.

10-week Summer Internship

All majors encouraged

Enhance your professional skills

Interact with senior leaders across the business

Each intern will be paired with an IHG HYPE member (an Employee Resource Group) and they will serve as the intern's mentor for the summer.

Internship Overview-

P&T Internship Opportunities in the following functions:

• Network Engineer

• Computer & Storage Engineer

• Developer

• Analyst

• Information Security

• App Development

Who We Look For

We're looking for emerging leaders that have ambitious personal and professional goals, a willingness to gain and share experiences, and a commitment to celebrating diversity in the workplace. In return, we will provide an unforgettable experience designed specifically to help you gain an insider's view of the hospitality industry as well as applicable skills and a global lens of a career path in Commercial & Technology.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Please note: No attempt is made to represent all the various tasks for each internship. Although interns may not perform all duties, those listed below reflect the nature, level, and difficulty of responsibilities common to positions in this job.

• Complete and/or coordinate activities related to assigned special projects, including project timelines, action items, and status updates

• Timely execution to meet established deadlines

• Low- to medium-complexity qualitative and quantitative data research and analysis

• Preparation of reports and/or presentations, utilizing Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and/or statistical software as needed

• Serve as internal and/or external liaison for departmental activities

• Maintain a consistent, high quality customer-focused orientation, including providing clear, accurate information; explaining procedures or materials or providing supplemental information; anticipating problems or questions; or referring customers to appropriate contacts within the unit, department or division

• Compose and prepare clear and concise correspondence as requested or required

• Perform tasks as assigned to facilitate the smooth operation of the assigned work area

Note: The summer intern cohort will participate in several social engagements within the cohort and with ERGs, ATL community volunteerism, EC/ Senior Leader Speaker Series and internal IHG network events

About Product & Technology

Today, Product & Technology (P&T) is a talented and multi-faceted function:

• With nearly 3,500 people, spanning 15 locations around the world.

• We touch every one of our nearly 6,000 hotels?and 17 brands

• And influence more than 70% of IHG's revenue

In a world of fast paced digital innovation, P&T is relentlessly focused on leveraging technology, channels, and revenue performance and capability for:

• Guests/Customers: Enhancing the experience at vital moments in the journey for our travelers and bookers/buyers.

• Hotels and their teams: Providing above-property industry leading, practical solutions that maximize revenue performance and make operations more efficient, secure and brand defining.

• Owners: Enabling a compelling value proposition; supporting top line performance and bottom-line growth.

• IHG & Corporate Colleagues: Delivering the systems, tools and processes that empower IHG and our corporate colleagues to perform at their very best.

What We Need From You

• Professionalism in oral and written presentation, communication, and attire

• Demonstrated emotional intelligence for relationship building and effective team collaboration and stakeholder engagement

• Proficiency in a variety of software packages (i.e. Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, e-mail, etc.)

• Effective oral and written communication skills to convey information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to analyze and draw conclusions from complex financial, statistical and market/sales data. Proficiency in paying attention to details

• Demonstrated ability to analyze basic database information for the purpose of accurately tracking, maintaining, or reporting data

• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple assignments and projects accurately and with attention to detail, along with proactive follow-through

• Demonstrated problem-solving skills for navigating a large-scale organization and resolving issues in a timely and effective manner

• Ability to work independently and with minimal supervision across a global organization and in a hybrid or virtual work environment

What We Offer

We'll reward all your hard work with a great salary and benefits - including great room discount and superb training.

Join us and you'll become part of the global IHG family - and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together - we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care, that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve - click here to find out more about us.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to an individual's, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

IHG is committed to promoting a culture of inclusion where everyone feels safe, respected and valued. We seek talent from all backgrounds to join our teams, and encourage our colleagues to bring their authentic and best selves to work.

Not Applicable for Colorado Applicants.

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.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual's, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.