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About the Role

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is seeking an entrepreneurial and highly connected Director of Development - Leisure Real Estate to identify, originate and secure new growth opportunities across Europe. This role involves expanding Wyndham's footprint in branded residences, vacation rentals, serviced apartments, extended-stay products, and emerging leisure real estate concepts by working with influential developers, investors, and owner groups.

Responsibilities

Lead the sourcing, negotiation, and execution of new development opportunities across Europe.
Manage projects from initial market engagement through contract signing and pre-opening handover.
Develop and execute a targeted development strategy focused on leisure real estate opportunities across Europe.
Identify and originate new projects in branded residences, vacation rentals, serviced apartments, extended-stay and mixed-use developments.
Build and maintain a robust pipeline of qualified opportunities.
Identify emerging markets, destinations, investment trends and development partners.
Generate opportunities through networking, market intelligence, conferences and industry relationships.
Establish trusted partnerships with developers, investors, family offices, private equity funds, institutional investors and strategic partners.
Position Wyndham as a leading partner within the leisure real estate sector.
Develop relationships with architects, consultants, brokers and advisors who influence investment and development decisions.
Represent Wyndham at major hospitality, investment and real estate events across EMEA.
Lead commercial negotiations for management, franchise, branded residence, licensing and strategic partnership agreements.
Understand owners' and investors' objectives and develop compelling partnership solutions.
Prepare investment cases, commercial proposals and executive presentations.
Guide projects through internal approvals, contract execution and handover to operations.
Coordinate internal stakeholders across Development, Operations, Commercial, Finance, Legal, Brand, Marketing and Architecture & Construction teams.
Act as the primary bridge between Wyndham and external partners.
Manage relationships through the entire development lifecycle, ensuring a seamless transition into opening and operations.
Recommend priority markets, target partner profiles and growth opportunities to senior leadership.
Monitor industry trends within branded residences, mixed-use developments and leisure real estate.
Provide market intelligence and competitive insights to support long-term growth strategies.

Requirements

Significant experience within hospitality development, real estate development, investments or leisure real estate.
Proven success originating and closing complex commercial transactions.
Strong network of developers, investors, owners and industry stakeholders across EMEA.
Deep understanding of hotel, resort and leisure real estate investment and development.
Experience working with institutional investors, private equity firms, family offices and major developers.
Strong commercial and financial acumen, including feasibility and investment analysis.
Outstanding negotiation, presentation and relationship management skills.
Experience engaging with senior executives, owners and investors.
Willingness to travel extensively throughout EMEA.

Skills

Highly connected and influential within the real estate and hospitality community.
Entrepreneurial, proactive and opportunity-focused.
Commercially savvy with strong deal origination capabilities.
Strategic in thinking but hands-on in execution.
Exceptional at building trust and long-term relationships.
Resilient, driven and motivated by results.
Comfortable working across multiple countries, cultures and stakeholder groups.
Passionate about identifying new sources of growth and innovation.

Location

London, UK

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Director

About the Company

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is one of the largest hotel franchise companies in the world by number of properties with approximately 8,400 hotels across over 95 countries on six continents.
Through our network of approximately 869,000 rooms appealing to the everyday traveler, Wyndham commands a leading presence in the hospitality industry.
Headquartered in Parsippany, N.J. with offices around the world in London, Shanghai, Buenos Aires, Dubai and more, Wyndham employs more than 2,000 corporate team members worldwide who are dedicated to the Company’s mission of making hotel travel possible for all.
Supporting thousands of franchisees and a growing global portfolio of 25 hotel brands—think household names like Wyndham, La Quinta, Ramada, Days Inn and Super 8—Wyndham team members are a widespread group of individuals with diverse interests and backgrounds.
Our unique Count on Me culture, commitment to flexibility and core values of Integrity, Accountability, Inclusivity, Caring and Fun are just part of what continues to make Wyndham an award-winning best place to work.

Equal Opportunity

In some locations around the world, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts manages hotel properties on behalf of a third party owner. At many of those properties, the Hotel owner is the actual employer, and Wyndham Hotels & Resorts performs recruiting and hiring functions on behalf of the owner. I understand and agree that, by applying through this site, I may be applying for a position with a company other than Wyndham Hotels & Resorts where Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is serving only as the recruiter and will not be my actual employer.