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The Senior Manager, Premium Portfolio Brands will play a critical role in advancing cross-brand and portfolio-wide initiatives—helping to track, manage, and optimize a dynamic set of Premium & Endorsed brand management projects. This role sits at the intersection of brand strategy and execution, ensuring work across multiple brands is aligned, prioritized, and delivered with speed and impact. Scope encompasses fourteen brands – from our flagship brands (Marriott Hotels) to our emerging brands (Outdoor Collection). This is an ideal role for a highly organized, strategic thinker who combines strong project management discipline with deep brand management expertise. The individual will flex across initiatives—stepping into priority projects, driving progress, and ensuring teams move seamlessly from strategy to execution. Working closely with Global Discipline teams and Continent partners, this leader will act as a central connector—bringing structure, visibility, and momentum to a complex portfolio of work.
Job Responsibility
Drive Portfolio & Project Management Excellence
Manage and track a portfolio of brand management initiatives across multiple brands, ensuring clear priorities, timelines, and accountability
Establish and maintain frameworks, tools, and processes to improve visibility, coordination, and delivery across projects
Identify risks, gaps, and dependencies, proactively driving solutions to keep work on track
Enable Cross-Brand & Cross-Project Integration
Support and connect work across brands to ensure alignment with broader portfolio strategies and shared objectives
Identify opportunities to scale, streamline, or standardize approaches across brands
Serve as a central point of coordination across initiatives, ensuring consistency and reducing duplication
Step into and Advance Priority Projects
Flex into key strategic or operational projects as needed—providing both project leadership and brand expertise
Drive progress on high-priority initiatives, bringing structure, clarity, and forward momentum
Balance multiple workstreams, adapting quickly to shifting business needs
Translate Strategy into Execution
Partner with brand leads to ensure strategies are clearly defined and effectively operationalized
Turn complex ideas into actionable plans with defined milestones and deliverables
Ensure brand work is delivered with rigor, speed, and quality
Partner Across a Matrixed Organization
Collaborate closely with Global Discipline teams (Marketing, Design, Digital, Loyalty, CX) and Continent teams to advance key initiatives
Act as a connector and influencer—facilitating alignment and driving decisions across stakeholders
Requirements
Bachelors’ degree from an accredited college or university in Business Administration, Marketing, or related major
Five or more years’ relevant professional experience in brand strategy or management, operations, or project/program management ideally across multiple brands demonstrating progressive career growth and a pattern of exceptional performance
Demonstrated ability to deliver results under difficult conditions, particularly when faced with complexity and ambiguity
Proven ability to lead complex projects and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
Strong ability to manage complexity and drive clarity across a portfolio of work
Highly organized with exceptional project management discipline—able to track, prioritize, and deliver against multiple workstreams simultaneously
Brings both strategic thinking and hands-on execution, with a bias for action
Naturally collaborative and highly effective in matrixed, global environments
Comfortable stepping into ambiguity and flexing across projects as business needs evolve
Combines brand sensibility with operational rigor—understanding both the “what” and the “how” of great brand work
Nice to have
Experience in consulting, strategy, or transformation roles is a strong plus