Building a Regional Design & Construction Leadership Team for a Global Hotel Group

Our client is one of the world's largest and fastest-growing hospitality companies, operating more than 5,100 properties with over 838,000 rooms across 100+ countries and territories. With a history spanning nearly a century, the group has played a defining role in shaping the global hospitality industry and operates a portfolio of multiple world-class brands. Within the EMEA region, the business operates several hundred hotels across more than 50 countries, supported by a substantial development pipeline that will add hundreds of new properties and tens of thousands of additional rooms over the coming years.

To support continued growth and drive performance across its real estate platform, the client partnered with us to strengthen its leadership capabilities across the EMEA division. The mandate focused on building best-in-class regional leadership teams in each region putting in place new leaders to support growth.

Working closely with the EMEA leadership team, we delivered a long-term, partnership-led executive search programme spanning multiple years. Our approach included:

• Advising on organisational design and succession planning within Design & Construction
• Identifying senior leaders with experience operating within large, multi-brand hotel environments
• Executing multiple searches in parallel across different disciplines and seniority levels
• Ensuring alignment between technical expertise, leadership capability, and corporate culture

This sustained approach enabled continuity, knowledge retention, and long-term impact across the regional platform.

Over an eight-year partnership, we successfully appointed a broad range of senior leaders across EMEA including:

• Vice President, EMEA
• Vice President, Europe
• Senior Director, Europe
• Senior Director, MEA (multiple positions)
• Senior Director, Asia Pacific

These appointments strengthened regional leadership, supported delivery of a significant development pipeline, and reinforced governance, quality, and operational excellence across the client's real estate platform.