Market Vice President, South, HMT

The Market Vice President is a key member of the regional leadership team and serves as the operational business leader for the assigned market. The role has responsibility for managed Premium and Select hotels, and franchise hotels limited to Premium brands only. The role is responsible for leading market-level hotel performance, ensuring the implementation and execution of brand strategies, service standards, and key business initiatives with the objective of meeting or exceeding guest, associate, owner, and financial expectations. This position partners closely with the Regional Vice President, property General Managers, discipline leaders, and regional and continent support teams to influence overall hotel performance across financial, customer, associate, owner, and operational measures. The Market Vice President provides leadership, resources, and guidance to drive market-wide operational excellence, balanced scorecard results, talent development, owner engagement, and effective execution of business priorities. The role also serves as a principal interface with owners and key stakeholders, balancing owner interests with Marriott International’s business objectives. The Market Vice President is expected to anticipate market trends and business risks, identify opportunities for improvement and growth, deploy regional and continent resources effectively across the market, and ensure that the market has the right strategies and support in place to deliver sustainable performance. The Market Vice President is accountable for market-level leadership beyond individual property oversight, including direct accountability for multi-property performance, issue escalation, disciplined execution of priorities, and fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion, compliance, and continuous improvement. CANDIDATE PROFILE Education and Experience Required • Degree from an accredited university in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Hospitality Management or related major • 10+ years of progressive hotel operations experience, including Operations Leadership roles or General Manager assignments; multi-unit responsibility preferred. • Excellent food and beverage, event management, rooms operations, revenue management, human resources, and quality assurance skills, including experience with strategic planning, budgeting, negotiating and interpreting contracts, SOPs, and project management. • Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a matrix organization and leverage property, regional, continent, and centralized corporate resources. • Demonstrated ability to deliver results in adverse conditions and make sound decisions when faced with complexity and ambiguity. • Experience evaluating business trends and risks and successfully developing and implementing strategies that enhance multi-unit business performance while mitigating business concerns. • Track record of creating positive and influential owner relationships and effectively balancing owner, property, and company priorities. • Proven success in talent management, leadership development, performance management, and manpower decisions at senior property or market level. • Strong financial management and analytical capability, including ability to analyze P&L statements, develop operating budgets, review forecasts, and evaluate capital expenditure plans. • Strong communication, influence, consensus building, negotiation, problem-solving, change management, coaching, associate relations, and customer relations skills. • High level of integrity, professionalism, business judgment, and willingness to travel frequently across the assigned market. CORE WORK ACTIVITIES Overall • Maintains brand standards and drives brand differentiation for assigned lodging brands within the market. • Utilizes property, regional, continent, and centralized corporate services to ensure