Manager, Franchise Contracts

**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 day to day**This position is responsible of proper licensing of IHG brands in Mexico. Manage the administration of licenses and related agreements for new franchised hotels, license renewals, license assignments, realignments and changes of ownership, addenda and default/cure issues. Coordinate internal communications with regional departments (Mexico) and hotels aimed at promoting an aligned organization.**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**- Manage the licensing administration process cycle, including the full contractual pre-opening and post-opening administration; Preparation and issuance of official contractual documentation. Monitoring of fee structures, compliance with milestones, license expiration dates, bank guarantees, etc.- Review and approval of legal paperwork and related documentation- Manage, enter and update the corresponding regional information into the GROWTH system, to integrate it to the IHG global database.- Coordinate Compliance Committee meetings by identifying compliance issues and present them to the Compliance Committee members for voting and recommend solutions; prepare and distribute minutes; follow-up on pending issues, take subsequent administrative actions such as preparing defaults and extension, cure and termination letters.- Maintain and develop an efficient regional contract licensing process and make recommendations for changes when appropriate. Maintain updated bilingual license agreement templates for each brand and coordinate/prepare required addenda, if applicable- Manage and solve contractual issues relating to existing franchise agreements: new developments license renewals, license assignments, name realignments, changes or ownership, brand changes.- Act as a liaison between the Mexican franchisee community and IHG for different topics, issues related to the hotel and IHG - providing answers or by directing questions to proper levels.- Act as the contact person within IHG for the IAHI Mexico Chapter.- Produce, update and distribute weekly/monthly Mexico’s Hotel Report (open, system size and hotels’ GMs).- Coordinate edition and distribution of IHG´s regional communications vehicles such as electronic magazine IHG con Mexico, Clippings Album, etc.- Update GMs changes in GROWTH.- Coordinate with GLOBAL Data Updates Hotel Name Changes for properties in Mexico.- Focal contact for Merlin issues (reset passwords, new users, etc.).- Provide guidance to corporate staff as to use and benefits of IHG Mail Bulletin.**What we need from you** Education -**Bachelor’s or Master Degree in Legal, Business or related Field, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience. Professional Degree Certification.**Experience -**5+ year’s progressive work-related experience in a franchise-related/legal environment with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines/technologies/processes related to the position in areas such as franchise contract administration and franchise information systems.**Technical skills and Knowledge -**- Knowledge of rules, laws and regulations surrounding the licensing process in the country- Understanding of content, wording and legality of franchise licensing documents- Cross-functional capabilities- Fully bilingual English-Spanish- Highly effective verbal and written communications skills- Diplomacy- Computer and Database skills- Administrative skills**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.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,