Renovation Manager - Conversions Essentials & Suites (Mid-Atlantic & Northeast)

The Renovation Manager – Conversions Essentials and Suites leads hotel renovation and conversion projects from initial assessment through completion, helping owners successfully meet brand standards, life safety, ADA, and franchise requirements. This role partners with owners, design professionals, contractors, and internal teams to drive project progress, solve field issues, manage timelines, and support successful hotel openings and relicensing efforts. Responsibilities include managing all on-site PIP renovation / conversion design and construction activities to ensure compliance or non-compliance with franchise License Agreement, including conformance with any associated PIP, Plan Review and FF&E submittals, and brand standards, including life safety and ADA requirements. Provide design, construction expertise and assistance to IHG franchisees and their assigned design team members through all phases of their PIP projects, including working out design / construction solutions as project field conditions arise, thus ensuring timely and successful completion of projects while promoting Great Hotels Guests Love. May lead and review the work of less experienced staff by providing mentoring, technical guidance and/or training in daily activities. From time to time provide feedback to management and brand on product related issues / recommendations for improvements. **Your day to day** - Property Improvement Plan (PIP) projects – Using the appropriate brand Master Plan PIP Strategy document, Conduct PIP renovation visits / product assessments for existing hotel product (including conversion hotels into the IHG system) seeking to License or re-License an IHG franchise agreement. Inspection include a thorough walk of the hotel assessing the hotel’s architecture and design for appropriateness in today’s market, condition of current product, and conformance to brand and life safety standards and building codes. Produce a comprehensive PIP narrative document that lists in detail the PIP renovation requirements, which after its completion, will help drive GuestView hotel scores as well as revenues. Conduct and manage onsite design and PIP scope meetings with ownership and all ensuing onsite renovation activities over a 12-24 month period to ensure hotel compliance with the PIP, including its timely completion and conformance to approved plans, brand standards and building codes. - Conversion projects – Referencing to various Plan Review documents and correspondence, Consultant conducts multiple progress visits as hotels prepare to enter the IHG system in conjunction with the New Hotel Opening Program (NHOP). Consultant meets with ownership representatives during the renovation phase to set project expectations, determine project readiness, resolve any field issues, and oversee conformance to IHG requirements, including conformance to PIP and Plan requirements and adherence to brand and life safety standards, building codes and ADA. - Manage own yearly assigned travel budget. Consultant must reconcile expenses on a monthly basis. - Proactively work with the mid-scale Development team and ownership prior to taking a deal to Franchise Approval Committee (FAC) to work through scope of work, design issues, and renovation timelines to better improve success rate for FAC approval and License execution for new build and PIP conversions. - Act as PIP department first level of appeal to franchisee/owner PIP waiver requests and timeline extension requests. Negotiate PIP issues and work out all PIP project details to set the PIP scope of work and its timeline for completion. Determine when to recommend to the PIP manager to place slow moving projects, or projects that are not otherwise in compliance with their PIP requirements, into PIP default. Work out viable plans and strategies, where possible, to get hotels through the PIP process in a timely manner. - Responsible to make sure that all construction/renovation milestones are monitored on a p…