FLEX Senior Manager, Product Catalog Platform

This is a temporary position.

JOB SUMMARY

Reporting to the Director Product Catalog Platform the Senior Manager Product Catalog Platform will lead efforts to develop and maintain the Product Catalog Platform. Product Catalog Platform is designed to drive growth in digital commerce for Marriott International by delivering guests a holistic and integrated shopping experience across property room and non-rooms products. This role will serve as the Product Lead for Product
Catalog Platform; partnering with engineering and stakeholders to build the platform roadmap and create solutions to deliver against digital commerce goals.
The Senior Manager Product Catalog Platform collaborates across the organization to drive the launch adoption and ongoing development of platform capabilities. This role will assist with the planning management and delivery of capabilities that produce hierarchical property product and rooms data across Marriott channels to create world-class guest experiences. The Senior Manager Product Catalog Platform will capture business
requirements and work with teams to create and prioritize a roadmap backlog of platform capabilities and enhancements. This position will be highly matrixed with great collaboration and shared roadmap development with numerous business stakeholders. Alongside stakeholder alignment our immediate teams are organized cross-functionally by squads that build remarkable products for Marriott International. The Senior Manager Product Catalog Platform will drive a strong business vision collaborate across squads and focus on modernizing our tools and platforms.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Experience
Ten or more experiences around digital product development and/or software engineering
Proven ability to lead and work with cross-functional teams in support of specific business priorities
Ability to solve problems quickly think strategically and drive data-driven decision making
Demonstrated comfort with generating and communicating strategic analysis and business insights to drive prioritization and build consensus
Ability to build high-performing teams of leaders and drive a result-oriented culture
Demonstrated ability to deliver results under difficult conditions particularly when faced with complexity and ambiguity
Dynamic interpersonal skills including being a team player and influencer that works well with counterparts from various functions/departments
and can influence without direct accountability
Effective written and oral communication skills sensitive to global communication needs
Thrives in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment
Proficient in software products and tools that support current business practices and global teams (e.g. Office Teams Jira Confluence etc.).
Experience managing and defining transformational strategies for business units.
Experience with enterprise scale master data management (MDM) systems (e.g Stibo Akeneo etc.)
Exposure to working with platforms spanning multiple languages and frameworks is preferred
Ability to translate high-level business planning information into technology needs/solutions

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES
Cross-Channel Digital Commerce Platforms
Work with engineering partners and cross-discipline stakeholders to develop and maintain Product Catalog Platform.
Drive strategy develop roadmaps and lead the continuous improvement of Product Catalog Platform as cross-channel platform to better
enable digital products and customer experiences.
Collaborate with diverse stakeholders across Digital Distribution Reservations Sales Revenue Management Global Marketing Brand etc.
Work with Change Management to create training plans timelines and POC to drive the adoption and usage of Product Catalog Platform.
Serve as the SME for Product Catalog Platform capabilities; serve as the business knowledge center for all Product Catalog Platform does and
will do in the future. Stay up to date with the latest industry trends; serve as a catalyst for the adoption of new capabilities and ways of
working/thinking.
Continually update refine and enhance product definitions taxonomies and data models covering all Marriott products and services.
Develop a multi-year roadmap to deliver long term goals for digital commerce.
Prioritize features and capabilities and create epics and stories in partnership with engineering and service provider partners.
Manage teams made up of associates and third-party consultants both onshore and offshore.
Collaborate across teams and creatively solve problems to constructively balance priorities and overcome or remove blockers required to
successfully deliver a new product or feature.
Managing Work Projects and Policies
This individual will embody the servant leader mindset and create/foster relationships that achieve business outcomes.
Provides accurate estimates as to the time needed to complete work to feed project plans (and therefore personal deadlines).
Meets deadlines once agreed upon provides regular status updates to manager leadership and key stakeholders.
Successfully manages multiple assignments at once; works based on priorities and requests clarification if priorities are not clear.
Communicates in a timely and appropriate manner with teammates.
Provides feedback to others in a helpful and professional manner.
Demonstrating and Applying Discipline Knowledge
Collaborate across functional areas to capture define and prioritize business requirements to achieve goals.
Collaborate with platform product to ensure stable releases functional alignment and appropriate unified release cycles.
Evangelize and integrate Product Catalog Platform capabilities across customer product management and journey planning.
Partner with Product and Experience leaders to prioritize scope and plan release schedules and capabilities.
Deliver capabilities to modernize Marriott property rooms non-rooms data across owned and approved third-party channels.
Champion the integration and enhancement of emerging businesses (e.g. HVMI All-Inclusive) outlet (e.g. F&B Spa Golf etc) non-rooms (e.g.
cabana insurance) into Product Catalog Platform.
Take great care and craft for designing systems and building applications correctly from day one with appropriate planning and communication
of delivery. Promotes and advances business decisions with the end-user in mind.
Champions both do no harm and clean slate approaches to conducting business. Proactively recognizes technical debt and creates plan for
appropriate retirement/decommission. Follows do no harm principles to ensure new Catalog Platform delivers on RTB requirements.
Keeps up-to-date technically and apply new knowledge to the job.
Maintaining Goals
Sets and maintains personal development goals working across shared MBOs and KPIs.
Collaborates to achieve program global marketing brand and technology timelines and business objectives frequently achieving stretch goals.
Bias for action in measured incremental success against broader KPIs.
Additional Responsibilities
Works independently with minimal supervision but knows when issues should be escalated to manager.
Develops relationships with members of other teams and leverages those relationships to answer questions.
Presents work with clarity and confidence; explains complex matters so that others can understand them.
Uses appropriate communication mechanisms (e.g. in-person Teams chat email call) for each situation.
Demonstrates self-confidence passion for the business energy optimism and enthusiasm.
Performs other reasonable duties as assigned by manager.

MANAGEMENT COMPETENCIES
Leadership
Adaptability Maintains performance level under pressure or when experiencing changes or challenges in the workplace.
Communication Conveys information and ideas to others in a convincing and engaging manner through a variety of methods.
Problem Solving and Decision Making - Identifies and understands issues problems and opportunities; obtains and compares information
from different sources to draw conclusions develops and evaluates alternatives and solutions solves problems and chooses a course of action.
Professional Demeanor - Exhibits behavioral styles that convey confidence and command respect from others; makes a good first impression
and represents the company in alignment with its values.
Strategy Development - Develops business plans by exploring and systematically evaluating opportunities with the greatest potential for
producing positive results; ensures successful preparation and execution of business plans through effective planning organizing and on-going
evaluation processes.
Managing Execution
Building and Contributing to Teams - Participates as a member of a team to move toward the completion of common goals while fostering
cohesion and collaboration among team members.
Strategy Execution Ensures successful execution across of business plans designed to maximize customer satisfaction profitability and
market share through effective planning organizing and on-going evaluation processes.
Driving for Results - Sets high standards of performance for self and/or others; assumes responsibility for work objectives; initiates focuses
and monitors the efforts of self and/or others toward the accomplishment goals; proactively takes action and goes beyond what is required.
Planning and Organizing - Gathers information and resources required to set a plan of action for self and/or others; prioritizes and arranges
work requirements to accomplish goals and ensure work is completed.
Building Relationships
Customer Relationships - Develops and sustains relationships based on an understanding of customer/stakeholder needs and actions
consistent with the companys service standards
Coworker Relationships - Interacts with others in a way that builds openness trust and confidence in the pursuit of organizational goals and
lasting relationships.
Global Mindset - Supports employees and business partners with diverse styles abilities motivations and/or cultural perspectives; utilizes
differences to drive innovation engagement and enhance business results; and ensures employees are given the opportunity to contribute to
their full potential.
Generating Talent and Organizational Capability
Organizational Capability - Evaluates and adapts the structure of assignments and work processes to best fit the needs and/or support the
goals of an organizational unit.
Talent Management - Provides support and feedback to help individuals develop and strengthen skills and abilities needed to accomplish work
objectives.
Learning and Applying Professional Expertise
Applied Learning - Seeks and makes the most of learning opportunities to improve performance of self and/or others.
Business Acumen - Understands and utilizes business information to manage everyday operations and generate innovative solutions to
approach business and administrative challenges.
Technical Acumen - Understands and utilizes professional skills and knowledge in a specific functional area to conduct and manage everyday
business operations and generate innovative solutions to approach function-specific work challenges.
Basic Competencies - Fundamental competencies required for accomplishing basic work activities.
o Basic Computer Skills - Uses basic computer hardware and software (e.g. personal computers word processing software Internet
browsers etc.).
o Mathematical Reasoning - Adds subtracts multiplies or divides quickly correctly and in a way that allows one to solve workrelated issues.
o Oral Comprehension - Listens to and understands information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
o Reading Comprehension Understands written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
o Writing - Communicates effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

At Marriott International we are dedicated to being an equal opportunity employer welcoming all and providing access to opportunity. We actively foster an environment where the unique backgrounds of our associates are valued and greatest strength lies in the rich blend of culture talent and experiences of our are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis including disability veteran status or other basis protected by applicable law.