FLEX Senior Product Manager

This is a temporary position.

The Senior Manager Hotel Operations Technology Products is responsible for supporting technologies that deliver guest services focused on food and beverage in our hotels. This role will collaborate with business partners and technical teams to maintain a well-groomed product backlog of features to include refined user stories with solid technical solutions that are ready for development.

The Senior Manager will demonstrate management skills and leadership in a highly matrixed environment and must be comfortable working with multiple stakeholders on numerous competing priorities. The candidate will be moderately technical with a proven record of creative solutioning and problem addition the candidate will have experience in evaluating SaaS/COTS solutions and developing multi-year technology product roadmaps.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Experience

Required:

Undergraduate degree

6 years experience in technology support management operations or related professional area

Skilled at converting business needs into technology requirements

Demonstrated ability to assess customer needs creatively approach solutions and decide and influence appropriate courses of action

Demonstrated ability to deliver results under challenging conditions particularly when faced with complexity ambiguity and aggressive timelines

High level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others motivate employees and elicit work output in a team environment.

Preferred:

Experience with JIRA and Confluence

Deep knowledge of Point of Sale or Digital Dining systems

Experience working with 3rd party vendors and service providers

Familiarity with Marriotts existing information architecture application portfolio and information management methodology

Core Responsibilities:

Leads cross-functional coordination for POS Distribution and Digital Dining technology initiatives ensuring required documentation responses and deliverables are completed on time.

• Assesses technology products against Marriott security policies; documents compliance gaps and partners with product owners to open and drive Risk Treatment Plans for approved exceptions.
• Coordinate with support teams for incident resolution Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and prioritize defect fixes Root Cause remediation in the product backlog.
• Owns project planning and execution across multiple workstreams; defines scope milestones dependencies risks and mitigation plans; and drives issues to resolution.
• Administers and continuously improves Agile delivery processes and tooling (Jira); facilitates sprint planning/PI planning defines standards and develops dashboards and reporting to measure progress and effectiveness.
• Defines and documents support intake requirements for new projects and business requests ensures requests are entered and tracked in Jira and establishes and maintains support processes and handoffs.
• Leads the third-party integration approval and refresh process; gathers minimum intake requirements documents system requirements and ensures Security Architecture and Contracting approvals are obtained.
• Drives stakeholder alignment across product owners engineering operations and vendors; communicates priorities clarifies responsibilities and removes blockers to keep delivery on track.
• Manages and prioritizes security and compliance requests for POS systems; partners with engineering and stakeholders to provide timely responses tracks remediation and escalates blocking risks as needed.

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