Senior Manager, Brand Management, W Hotels

New York, USA (Hybrid)

$121K/yr – $157K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive brand strategy and execution for a luxury hotel portfolio, ensuring culture, identity and programming are consistently delivered.

  • Own brand governance across identity, materials, and hotel-wide activation.
  • Must-have: 7+ years in hospitality brand management.
  • Standout: Strong cross-team influence with global design alignment.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the Brand Positioning, develops and manages the Brand’s Visual Identity, and develops communication tools and templates to ensure consistent execution by broader organization and hotels.
  • Support the Brand Culture work including the evolution of our service ethos Whatever/Whenever, W Insider, W Service Culture training and other critical brand differentiators
  • Deeply understands the target audience, especially next-gen, and its nuances as relates to opportunities for brand marketing and programming. Conducts a regular pulse-check on the consumer and uses insights to inform presentation materials and go-to-market strategies.
  • Develops on-strategy materials for Development, continent teams, and other partners to support W Hotels growth.. Ensures the success of new openings and support through brand marketing.
  • Identifies and develops a roadmap for executing new initiatives and projects for the brand from initiation to completion. Identifies internal and external partners, as appropriate, to ensure success.
  • Creates project plans, guides, and engages respective project teams throughout the project from kick off to implementation.
  • Serves as brand advocate by helping resources and extended teams understand the brand direction.
  • Ensures a luxury lens on all presentations, materials and toolkits, working with the team to ensure a keen understanding of brand direction .
  • Develops materials to support guest programming and collaborates on ways to drive press for those initiatives.
  • Acts as a liaison and resource for the Global Design team to execute specific, differentiated brand design foundations and supporting design standards and guidelines.
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Marriott International, Inc. is based in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and encompasses a portfolio of approximately 9,000 properties across more than 30 leading brands in 141 countries and territories. Its heritage can be traced to a root beer stand opened in Washington, D.C., in 1927 by J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott. Marriott International is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. Marriott International does not discriminate on the basis of disability, veteran status or any other basis protected under federal, state or local laws. Community Guidelines: We reserve the right to remove without any notice content that we determine in our sole discretion is offensive or illegal, contains personally identifiable information, trademarks or copyrights belonging to a third party, advertises a third party’s products or services, or is otherwise inappropriate. Application Tips: We encourage job seekers to protect themselves from email and recruiting scams. Please note: 1) We do not accept applications via email or fax; 2) We never ask for money as part of the application process; 3) We only contact job applicants from approved email domains. Please find more information about Marriott International’s job application process and approved email address domains here: http://www.careers.marriott.com/tips-for-applying/

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