FLEX Senior Manager/Product Owner, Core Loyalty Products

Marriott • Bethesda, MD

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Manager / Product Owner, Customer Management Products is responsible
for supporting technologies that deliver services and support to the Loyalty
Team and other cross functional teams tied to Loyalty. This role will
collaborate with business partners and technical teams to maintain a
well-groomed and prioritized product backlog of features as well as dependencies
with other loyalty pods and other cross functional teams. In addition, this role
will support the Product Manager/Director in tracking and communicating the
overall status of the backlog and reflect changes in business priorities.

The Senior Manager / Product Owner 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
solving.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree
• 6 years’ experience in technology, business, sales and marketing, management operations, or related professional area including:
• 3+ years Product\Program management experience leading or managing platforms within a large, global organization.
• 3+ years of demonstrated Product and/or Strategy experience.
• Demonstrated experience 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
• Excellent communicator, both written and spoken. Must be able to explain product vision, business objective, technical feasibility, define requirements, and technical implementations
• Skilled at converting business needs into technology requirements
• Proficiency in Office software products and digital collaboration tools
• 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.
• 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.
• Customer Relationships - Develops and sustains relationships based on an understanding of customer/stakeholder needs and actions consistent with the company’s 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Basic Computer Skills - Uses basic computer hardware and software (e.g., personal computers, word processing software, Internet browsers, etc.).
• Mathematical Reasoning - Adds, subtracts, multiplies, or divides quickly, correctly, and in a way that allows one to solve work-related issues.
• Oral Comprehension - Listens to and understands information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Reading Comprehension – Understands written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Writing - Communicates effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

Nice To Haves

• Project Management experience preferred
• Experience with or knowledge of SAFe preferred
• Experience with Jira and Confluence
• Experience with technical integrations across multiple systems preferred
• Experience with or knowledge of Agile/Scrum software development practices preferred

Responsibilities

• Maintain a well-groomed product backlog of features to include refined user stories with solid technical solutions that are ready for development
• Help define new product features and optimizations of existing ones, and incorporate them into product roadmaps
• Support the definition of multiple Loyalty system capability requirements and development of the product roadmap
• Provide clear vision and scope documentation, use cases, workflows, and wire-frames to support development
• Coordinate with support teams for defect resolution
• Provides technical expertise and support to persons inside and outside of the department
• Demonstrates knowledge of job-relevant issues, products, systems, and processes
• Demonstrates knowledge of function-specific procedures
• Keeps up-to-date technically and applies new knowledge to job
• 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
• Ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects and aggressive timelines
• Strong interpersonal skills and success in cross-functional relationship-building at all levels, ability to drive consensus through influence and fact-based approach
• Effective written and oral communications skills with sensitivity to global communication needs
• Thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
• Demonstrates self-confidence, energy and enthusiasm in leading and influencing teams

Benefits

• All locations offer 401(k) plan, stock purchase plan, discounts at Marriott properties, commuter benefits, employee assistance plan, and childcare discounts.
• Full-time positions also offer coverage for medical, dental, vision, health care flexible spending account, dependent care flexible spending account, life insurance, disability insurance, accident insurance, adoption expense reimbursements, and paid parental leave.
• Employees will accrue paid sick leave, 0.0384 PTO balance for every hour worked and be eligible to receive minimum of 9 holidays annually.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level