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This is a temporary role. Provides leadership for the development, implementation, and support of software/technology integrations to support long term technology partnerships resulting from growth initiatives including but not limited to mergers and acquisitions. This role will be responsible for external partner relationship management, internal stakeholder orchestration, project management, support escalation, and technical delivery for long term partnerships. This position manages day-to-day relationships, issues and priorities with stakeholders, providers, partners and global technology teams to drive seamless integration of new software products and platforms into Marriott’s technology ecosystem, support migration activities, ensure appropriate levels of support for the partner and optimize and document support and communication processes.
Job Responsibility:
Provides leadership for the development, implementation, and support of software/technology integrations to support long term technology partnerships resulting from growth initiatives including but not limited to mergers and acquisitions
Responsible for external partner relationship management, internal stakeholder orchestration, project management, support escalation, and technical delivery for long term partnerships
Manages day-to-day relationships, issues and priorities with stakeholders, providers, partners and global technology teams to drive seamless integration of new software products and platforms into Marriott’s technology ecosystem, support migration activities, ensure appropriate levels of support for the partner and optimize and document support and communication processes
Owns the external-facing technical relationship with the partner and aligns internal efforts to deliver value
Acts as the primary point of contact for both the external partner and the internal stakeholder teams for technical discussions, escalations, support tickets and other needs
Understands partner’s business goals and ensures Marriott work aligns with their evolving needs from a technical enablement perspective
Identifies new opportunities enabled by technical capabilities
Drives and project manages co-innovation projects, pilots, or initiatives that deepen the partnership
Manages day-to day relationships with external partner and internal IT teams as needed
Facilitates high-level technical discussions and builds trust with partner executives and technology leads
Brings Partner feedback into Marriott Global Technology to shape priorities, improvements, and investments
Owns the internal-facing orchestration of execution—ensuring delivery, structure, and reporting are sound and scalable
Manages new budget requests for partner support
Leads prioritization and funding efforts for partner initiatives through Technology Integrations, Global Technology, EPP/CWI or other forums
Serves as the primary point of contact to ensure that Partner issues are resolved in a timely fashion
Identifies any support or communication gaps and works to bring solutions forward to address
Provides overall project management of business projects/portfolios
Aligns internal technical and business teams to deliver on commitments
Drives DTT migration
Develops and maintains technical roadmap with prioritization
Guides and influences Global Technology teams without direct authority
Supports the successful deployment of DTT in the partner ecosystem
Serves as project manager for successful pull through of Global Technology strategies and partner technical roadmap
Plans and coordinates content for formal reviews with partner
Meets regularly with partner discipline and IT leaders and conducts periodic strategic business reviews and technical reviews, driving resulting action items
Facilitates recurring meetings with partner to review if any open problems require escalation and to discuss future roadmap
Owns KPIs, dashboards, and performance reporting to internal and partner stakeholders
Anticipates issues, develops mitigation plans, and keeps projects on track
Receives, handles, reports status and solves escalations directly from partner
Facilitates timely resolution of escalated service delivery problems and minimizes the impact of any partner service delivery issues
Provides early warning to the appropriate Technology, Product and Business leaders and team regarding degraded or missed service levels
Supports and follows defined IT Governance decision rights, standards and practices
Requirements:
10+ years of software technology leadership experience, executing various approaches of systems
Five years recent experience as a primary point of accountability for one or more business functions catering to multiple customer groups
Seasoned technology leader well versed in IT strategy and business disciplines, with a good grasp of customer experience, project management, product development and integration
Demonstrated expertise of industry application platforms, trends, and best practices
Understanding of best practices in technology standards and processes
Use of ceremonies and processes associated with Development Life Cycle (SDLC) (e.g., Agile and Waterfall)
Strong process management, negotiating, influencing and problem resolution skills
Demonstrated ability to assess customer/client needs, creatively approach solutions, and decide/influence appropriate courses of action
Ability to understand and communicate the lifecycle of technologies and applications and to translate into technical strategies for the client organizations
Nice to have:
Experience in travel and hospitality software technology systems/products
Hands-on experience in innovation initiatives with external partners
Proven ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
Experience in business systems and process planning
Knowledge of business environment, service and support requirements and hospitality culture
Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas in easy-to understand business terms