As Senior Project Manager for Inventory Innovation, you will lead and manage all aspects of a key initiative within Inventory Innovations, including but not limited to the following: Ensuring project plans and goals are achieved; identifying and managing risks and issues related to scope, timeline, or cost; and working hand-in-hand with the business lead and partners, consistently updating them on project progress. This role also collaborates with change management to account for effective communication, training, and support for sustained adoption and results, both with our internal corporate audience as well as with our hotels and owners.
More specifically, you will: • Work with key partners and vendors to establish working practices, clarify roles and responsibilities, and ensure that plans, dependencies, issues, and risks are aligned with the overall project plan, drive deliverables, and support commercial services goals • Identify key functionality gaps by working closely with key subject matter experts. Prioritize requirements and develop and implement a remediation plan, if required • Align team on the project methods, implement standards and supervise opportunities for progression • Develop a solid understanding of hotel-level, owner-level, and corporate-level commercial objectives and revenue management business processes and systems across brands and geographies • Act as a strategic thought partner with business leads, product owners, leadership, deployment teams, and Platform Activation.
We believe the success in this role will demonstrate itself through the following attributes and skills: • Demonstrates the highest standards of values and absolute discretion with sensitive information • Proven project-level leadership, including the ability to organize people, tasks, timing, risks/issues, scope, budget and reporting, while understanding how all of the above relate to the larger project goals and business objectives. • Ability to collaborate with the team and act objectively to stay on track to achieve common goals • Effectively operate handling multiple projects and priorities under time constraints and balance concurrent demands • A demonstrable record of carrying out large-scale changes across a global, highly matrixed organization • Ability to build trust with key partners by leading with integrity and purpose • Problem-solving skills to find creative solutions in developing, prioritizing, and implementing strategic solutions • Experience creating both written & verbal communication collateral in a clear and concise manner, including memos, internal briefings, presentations, and training/job aid-type content • Self-motivation skills allowing you to take initiative in identifying, prioritizing, and implementing tasks with a personal dedication to succeed • Soft skills with an interest in working in multi-functional, dynamic environments • Organization skills that include superb attention to detail • Driven by a deep curiosity to understand new areas of the business and draw connections
To fulfill this role successfully, you should demonstrate the following minimum qualifications: • Seven (7) years of professional experience • Five (5) years of experience in Project Management • Travel occasionally for team meetings and collaboration with key partners
It would be helpful in this position for you to demonstrate the following capabilities and distinctions: • Seven (7) of professional experience in Project Management • Experience with Agile methodologies • PMP, CAPM, or similar certification • An understanding of revenue management, pricing, inventory, and on property operations. • Working understanding of Smartsheet, Jira/Confluence, and other project planning tools • Hospitality Experience