Senior Director, Strategy Planning

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The **Senior Director, Strategy Planning & Services, APEC **is a key member of the Consumer Operations Continent Strategy Planning & Services organization that provides planning, business advisory, and consultancy support to the Chief Sales & Marketing Officer (CSMO) and senior leadership teams across APEC. The position will report into the APEC CSMO and leads projects ranging from long term strategic planning, business assessments of growth opportunities, and project management of global initiatives.

We are looking for a Senior Director that will work with senior executives to help define and drive the future growth of Marriott International by leading some of the most important initiatives across the Continent. Success in this role requires strong organizational skills, strategic thinking, structured problem-solving skills, writing and communication skills, ability to effectively manage multiple priorities at the same time and the ability to coach and develop a team of high performers.

Some examples of projects that this individual may lead include the following:

- **Strategic planning **to develop 3-year strategy house for Consumer Operations APEC and lead other staff/planning meetings; lead Consumer Operations long range planning
- **Consulting initiatives **to develop and lead the APEC digital partnerships strategy, localization strategies and other APEC priorities
- **Business assessment **of new growth verticals and adjacencies

**CANDIDATE PROFILE**

**Education and Experience Required**
- Bachelor’s degree holder and above in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Hotel Management, or related major
- Ideally MBA from top tier institution
- 12+ years of relevant professional experience of which at least 8+ must be from major strategy consulting house or in-house corporate strategy role

**Skills and Experience Preferred**
- Extensive consulting experience at major strategy consulting house (MBB, Big 4 consulting, boutique strategy firm)
- Some in-house corporate strategy experience would be beneficial
- Experience leading complex strategic projects and demonstrated success in leading a methodical process of analyzing problems, gathering information, generating innovative solutions, and then proposing and acting on a course of action
- Experience leading large scale implementation projects
- Strong communication skills with ability to craft presentations with compelling storylines
- Solid analytical skills with the ability to leverage data to inform and drive decisions
- Highly credible, high EQ, able to engage and influence senior leaders on a broad range of strategic issues
- Previous experience in leading and managing a team with demonstrated ability to coach and develop future leaders
- High business acumen and ability to connect Global and Continent strategies with consulting priorities
- Experience in hospitality industry would be advantageous

**CORE WORK ACTIVITIES**

**Strategy Planning**
- Lead Consumer Operations planning process including development of the group’s long-term strategy, KPIs, key objectives and strategic initiatives
- Facilitate planning/ strategy discussions in order to achieve alignment among all the disciplines and between Global

**Consulting Project/ Business Assessment Leadership**

Leads cross-functional teams comprised of discipline experts from HR, Finance, other Consumer Operations departments (Brand, Marketing, Sales, Revenue Management, Digital Platforms, IT), and APEC Leadership in the strategic assessment of new growth opportunities:

- Scope, develop and lead work plan to assess new opportunities with mínimal oversight, working with senior leaders to meet project objectives and goals on time and on budget
- Conduct primary and secondary research to obtain necessary information
- Analyze data and develop recommendations and strategy for Marriott
- Create and deliver periodic and on-going presentations on findings and opportunities for senior management and other key stakeholders (e.g., owners)
- Communicate findings through compelling storyline

**Project Management Leadership**

Provide project management and analytical support for large, complex, cross-function implementation projects. Acts as a project management leader and day-to-day project decision maker with the following responsibilities:

- Accountable to the results of the project
- Provide content guidance to the project
- Participate in review cycles at key milestones & provide go/no-go decision
- Actively participate in strategy sessions
- Contribute to strategy development
- Develop and drive implementation plan
- Ensure alignment of all key stakeholders
- Ensure appropriate sponsorship and resourcing
- Establish key m