Director, Hotel Conversions

The Director, Hotel Conversions, is responsible to drive one of Marriott GC top priorities: accelerating the pace of conversions and short-term openings. The key component of the role is visiting conversion candidates together with GDGC and developers to conduct property inspections and prepare the Property Improvement Plan required for conversion to the Marriott brand under consideration. However, it is critical to emphasize that, unlike GDGC, the role of the Director, Hotel Conversions, is not to produce a brand-standard deviation checklist for these conversion candidates. Rather, this role will use his/her experience, brand understanding, local competitive knowledge, reasonable discretion and business judgement to adapt a conversion mindset allowing him/her to make decisions, on the spot and during the inspection, regarding what aspects of the hotel can be accepted as is, and which areas need renovation or improvement and, if so, by when. Clear guidelines will be given to the Director, Hotel Conversions, regarding certain brand standards where on-the-spot decisions may not be appropriate and further dialogue is required including such areas as life-safety and systems among others.

Other related responsibilities include coordination where necessary between the regional operations teams and hotel owners for various items and issues related to takeover, rebranding, the PIP and the overall conversion process. Incentive plan will be tied to set goal linked to the number of projects signed during the year.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

·       Chief Development Officer, Greater China

·       VP Design and Project Management, Greater China

·       GDGC Project Directors, Greater China

·       Hotel Development VP, Director, Managers, Greater China

·       Brand Senior Director, Director, Senior Manager, Greater China

·       Feasibility Senior Director, Director, Senior Manager, Greater China

·       Legal team

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Experience

·       10 years of relevant experience in hotel industry, or 5 years with design firms with hotel experience. 

·       Background in brand management & design (technical service) is highly preferred. 

·       Very familiar with MI’s various hotel brands and their respective positioning in Greater China

·       Understanding of hotel renovation dynamics (time required, magnitude of costs involved, impact on guest satisfaction, etc.)

·       Strong communication skills – verbal and written, both in Chinese and English

·       Business acumen and business analytics

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