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SVP Technology

Kempinski Hotels
United Arab Emirates - DubaiOn-site3d ago
Employment
Permanent Full Time

About the role

Key Responsibilities

  • Elevate the end-to-end digital guest journey across properties.
  • Ensure seamless integration between PMS, CRM, Revenue, POS, and guest-facing platforms.
  • Enable data-driven personalization and service excellence aligned with luxury brand standards.
  • Support innovation in guest engagement, mobile services, and experiential technologies.
  • Define and execute a forward-looking technology roadmap aligned with brand and ownership expectations.
  • Align corporate and property technology standards globally.
  • Lead investment governance and value realization across all initiatives.
  • Modernize infrastructure across corporate & hotel environments (cloud-first, resilient architecture).
  • Oversee core enterprise and hospitality systems. 
  • Standardize and simplify the global application landscape while preserving property level flexibility. 
  • Establish enterprise wide governance and advanced analytical capabilities. 
  • Leverage predictive analytics and AI to optimize revenue, operations and guest satisfaction. 
  • Ensure robust cybersecurity for the protection of guest and brand data. 
  • Elevate IT service delivery standards across properties worldwide.
  • Implement clear SLAs, KPIs, and performance governance.
  • Strengthen vendor partnerships and strategic sourcing models.
  • Redesign the global Technology operating model.
  • Restructure and upgrade team capabilities to support a premium hospitality environment.
  • Embed a performance-driven, service-oriented culture within IT.
  • Drive digital transformation across corporate and hotel operations.
  • Lead change management across a geographically dispersed portfolio.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

  • 10 + years executive-level technology leader with experience in luxury hospitality or premium multi-site environments.
  • Proven transformation leader capable of modernizing legacy systems and organizations.
  • Strong understanding of guest-centric digital ecosystems.
  • Ability to balance global standardization with property-level agility.
  • High executive presence with Board-level communication capability.
  • Experience leading diverse, international teams through complex change.

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