<span>Managing Vice President, Food &amp; Beverage - Global Operations</span>

$258,900 - $365,000/Yr

Marriott International - Bethesda, MD

Full-time - Executive

Hybrid - Bethesda, MD

10,001+ employees

Accommodation

About the position

The Managing Vice President, Food & Beverage - Global Operations leads the team responsible for driving Food & Beverage (F&B) innovation and strategy across all brands and segments for Marriott International. This role focuses on developing programs and partnerships to fulfill F&B opportunities, leveraging market research and customer insights to create cutting-edge F&B experiences and establish scalable and localized F&B programs. The position also involves gathering stakeholder feedback, collaborating with various disciplines, and ensuring alignment of F&B programs with customer needs and the competitive landscape.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Global F&B discipline for Marriott International to drive F&B innovation and transformational strategy across all brands and segments.
• Develop programs and partnerships that support the fulfillment of F&B opportunities across chain scales, brands, continents, and hotels.
• Oversee F&B third-party partnership strategy and create a framework to support F&B elevation through partners when appropriate.
• Develop and maintain strategic professional relationships with Food & Beverage industry leaders, external boards, organizations, and suppliers.
• Conduct forward-thinking research to understand discipline trends and competition, surfacing big ideas for business development.
• Leverage market research, trends, customer insights, and subject matter expertise to create cutting-edge F&B programs and experiences.
• Establish F&B programs that meet the needs of each brand and/or Continent in target consumer preferences, operating model, and brand economic model.
• Develop and lead a high-performing team of specialized discipline leaders focused on best-in-class products, tools, and resources.
• Gather and assess internal and external stakeholder feedback across continents and measure against performance metrics to drive F&B innovation.
• Partner with Brand liaisons, Continents, and other disciplines to define and understand customer needs and the competitive landscape.
• Identify performance gaps or opportunities and partner with stakeholders to create strategies.
• Create buzz and excitement for Global F&B through restaurant and bar experiences that drive Public Relations, content, ADR growth, and profit.
• Collaborate with hotel and regional leadership, owners, and franchisees on resources, tools, standards, and programs across R+B, Culinary, and M+E.
• Drive operational excellence and the highest standards of restaurant, culinary, meetings and events, service, programming, and bar operations.
• Act as the company's subject matter expert regarding multi-brand food & beverage to all constituencies.
• Leverage processes to systematically review stakeholder satisfaction and take action to correct inadequacies.
• Champion cross-continent discipline connectivity through Global Leadership Teams for Culinary and Meetings + Events.

Requirements

• 4-year bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Hotel and Restaurant Management, Culinary Science, or related major, or comparable experience.
• 10+ years of business management leadership experience in the Food & Beverage discipline, demonstrating progressive career growth and exceptional performance.
• Track record of creating profitable, operational, and cutting-edge Food & Beverage solutions.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience guiding insight synthesis and identifying emerging opportunities based on industry analysis, company analysis, market analysis, and trend evaluation.
• Experience representing Global F&B disciplines across brands and segments.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health care benefits
• 401(k) plan with up to 5% company match
• Employee stock purchase plan at 15% discount
• Accrued paid time off (including sick leave where applicable)
• Life insurance
• Group disability insurance
• Travel discounts
• Adoption assistance
• Paid parental leave
• Health savings account (except for positions based out of or performed in Hawaii)
• Flexible spending accounts
• Tuition assistance
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Other life and work wellness benefits
• Stock awards and deferred compensation plans