What are the responsibilities and job description for the FLEX Executive Consultant - Organizational Capability position at Marriott International?
Job Category Administrative
Location Marriott International HQ, 7750 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland, United States VIEW ON MAP
Schedule Full-Time
Located Remotely? N
Relocation? N
Position Type Management
The Organizational Capability (OC) Department has primary responsibility for Organizational Design and Effectiveness. Broadly speaking, the OC Department's work is focused on strengthening the alignment between business priorities and organizational strategy (structure, processes, jobs), preparing associates to work effectively in our operating model. Through expertise in these areas, the OC department works to ensure that Marriott International (Ml) is structured and has the operational processes in place to grow – and that the right resources are focused on the company’s key priorities. This position will support Marriott’s efforts to review and refine its operating model and unlock its full potential.
JOB SUMMARY
The FLEX Executive Consultant – Organizational Capability will report to the SVP, Talent Management & Organizational Capability and provide leadership by:
• Bringing a deep technical expertise of organizational effectiveness and applying it to MI’s business goals and objectives.
• Understanding of the strategy, priorities, and operating models for Marriott’s global disciplines and continents.
• Partnering with senior executives to evolve the company’s operating structure to reflect changes in business environment, implementation of technology, and evolving strategies.
• Establishing and ensuring the execution of leading practices in the areas of organizational design and governance
• Partnering with HR leaders to drive the companies most significant organizational initiatives.
EXPECTED CONTRIBUTIONS, RESPONSIBILITIES, DUTIES Specific responsibilities will include:
• Serving as a senior practitioner that partners with the company’s senior leaders to translate business strategies and priorities into effective organizational operating models.
• Driving organizational design innovation, advocating and educating on solutions that may differ from past practices.
• Ensuring that Marriott has capabilities, structure, processes, and work practices in place to drive the growth of the company.
• Establishing and driving agile work practices across the company.
• Ensuring organizational designs, governance, and processes align with and leverage available technology platforms
• Ensuring that operating models are in place to enable collaboration, productivity, and decision making.
• Leveraging data and analytics to ensure focus on the most impactful opportunities for the business and to evaluate effectiveness of solutions.
THE CANDIDATE
EXPERIENCE:
• 15 years of HR leadership, including organization design and development work experience; demonstrated progressive growth from more junior to senior roles
• Exceptional influence skills – must be able to consult with and influence senior executives to lead organizational change.
• Proven track record designing, developing, and implementing high impact organization capability solutions in large, complex organizations, using a variety of delivery methodologies
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional work teams in a matrix organization
• Demonstrated ability to make data-driven recommendations and decisions.
• Experience leading organizational change initiatives
• HR Generalist and/or consulting experience a plus
• Hospitality/Lodging industry experience a plus;
• BS (or equivalent) in business, organization development, human resources, psychology, or related field required
• MS (or equivalent) in business, organizational development, human resources, psychology, or related field preferred
SKILLS:
• Strong consulting skills
• Exceptional influence skills
• Expert in performing organizational diagnostic work and needs assessments
• Strong program and project management skills are essential
• Strong qualitative data collection and analysis skills required; strong research methods, and quantitative data collection and analysis skills highly desirable
• Strong verbal and written communication skills - ability to articulate compelling ideas and "enroll people"
• Ability to develop and maintain strong interpersonal relationships with team members, internal stakeholders and external constituents; and ability to influence change through these relationships
• Must have sharp business acumen
• Ability to operationalize concepts/strategies within the marketplace
• Strong platform and facilitation skills required
• Must be a self-starter and able to work fairly independently, as well as be a strong team player
• Ability to work in a deadline-driven environment - - establishing goals and delivering against the objectives of assignments to meet time, budget and quality criteria
ATTRIBUTES:• Relationship builder; networker
• Collaborative; team player
• Persistent; drives ideas
• Persuasive influencer, without coercion
• Delivers results under difficult conditions and demonstrates balanced judgment under pressure
• Engages in fixing the problem while balancing consultative role
• Exhibits leadership presence; ability to establish credibility necessary to influence at all organizational levels and give projects credibility
• Analytical; makes decisions using data and business knowledge
• Comfortable with complexity, ambiguity and change
• Trustworthy with strong business integrity and ability to hold sensitive information in confidence
• "Big picture" thinker; processes information through a strategic lens and applies tenants of systems thinking/theory to issues and assignments.
• Innovative thinker and agile learner; able to readily apply past learnings in new situations to generate solutions to Ml challenges and/or create something entirely new.
• Has acute organizational and self-awareness; politically savvy
• Leverages and promotes diversity in approach to getting work done
Marriott International is an equal opportunity employer. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive, people-first culture. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, such as disability and veteran status, or any other basis covered under applicable law.
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