Director of Enterprise Transformation & Innovation
Bethesda, MD - USA
Job Summary
JOB SUMMARY
The Director of Enterprise Transformation & Innovation is a strategic leader responsible for driving organizationwide initiatives and future strategy. This role partners across functions to identify opportunities lead highimpact initiatives and ensure alignment with the companys longterm vision. The Director oversees execution of complex enterprise projects including milestone tracking stakeholder engagement and performance measurement and delivers clear insights to senior leadership to support an agile futurefocused organization.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Education and Experience
Required
- 4- year bachelors degree from an accredited university in related field appropriate to work position or 8 years in hotel operations experience or other relevant experience.
- Strong project management background with proven ability to lead cross-functional projects from concept through execution.
- Demonstrates strong system knowledge across both associate facing and backend platforms including Property Management Systems Central Reservation Systems and EMPOWER: GXP
- Proven experience leading and developing high-performing teams including coaching workload management and talent development.
- Demonstrated ability to drive enterprise-wide initiatives manage competing priorities and influence without authority across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Strong analytical skills ability to analyze and simplify quantitative and qualitative data.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to simplify complexity and align stakeholders at all levels.
Preferred
- Formal Project Management certification (PMP Agile Six Sigma etc.).
- Experience leading large-scale transformation or innovation programs within a hospitality service or customer-centric organization.
- Experience working within or alongside enterprise modernization programs digital transformation efforts or systems optimization initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to create structure clarity and measurable outcomes in ambiguous environments.
CORE WORK ACTIVITIES
- Lead enterprise-wide transformation and innovation initiatives that modernize operations enhance agility and advance long-term strategic priorities.
- Manage complex high-impact projects from design through execution ensuring clear scope aligned objectives and measurable results across cross-functional teams.
- Integrate Run-the-Business operations with modernization efforts leveraging Power of M systems and operational insights to improve processes and optimize enterprise performance.
- Oversee workforce planning by aligning project staffing to deadlines assessing existing team capacity identifying resource gaps and balancing operational needs with budget guidelines.
- Drive stakeholder alignment and change leadership influencing without authority facilitating adoption and ensuring successful rollout of new processes systems and capabilities.
- Provide executive-ready reporting and insights tracking progress risks milestones and performance metrics to support informed leadership decisions.
Marriott International is an equal opportunity believe in hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive people-first are committed to non-discrimination onanyprotectedbasis such as disability and veteran status or any other basis covered under applicable law.
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
About Company
At Le Méridien, we are inspired by the era of glamorous travel, celebrating each culture through the distinctly European spirit of savouring the good life. Our guests are curious and creative, cosmopolitan culture seekers that appreciate moments of connection and slowing down to savou ... View more