Director, Executive Talent Acquisition

About the role

Talent Acquisition at Marriott plays a critical role in enabling business performance by identifying, attracting, and hiring exceptional talent across the enterprise. Through Marriott's integrated Talent Acquisition model, we deliver talent solutions that strengthen leadership capability, support business growth, and advance the organization's priorities around developing great leaders, investing in associates, and providing access to opportunity. The Director, Executive Talent Acquisition is part of Marriott's in-house executive search function and is accountable for leading high-impact executive searches that identify, attract, assess, and secure top leadership talent for critical roles across the organization. This role owns search strategy and execution in close partnership with senior executives, Human Resources leaders, and key stakeholders, providing market intelligence, talent insights, and a highly consultative, confidential, and candidate-centric executive search experience.

Location: 7750 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda MD 20814, United States.

Responsibilities

• Own the development and execution of executive search strategies, talent market engagement approaches, and search methodologies for critical leadership hiring needs, partnering with the Senior Director, Executive Talent Acquisition to ensure alignment with enterprise priorities and stakeholder expectations.
• Build, influence, and maintain trusted relationships with senior executives, Human Resources leaders, HR Centers of Excellence, and key stakeholders to anticipate leadership needs, shape search priorities, and deliver effective executive search solutions.
• Serve as a trusted advisor throughout the search process by providing talent market insights, candidate assessments, competitive intelligence, and recommendations that support executive hiring decisions.
• Identify opportunities to improve executive search processes, tools, reporting, and operating practices to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and stakeholder experience.
• Partner with Human Resources leaders and hiring managers to develop search strategies and successfully identify, attract, assess, and hire executive talent for critical leadership roles.
• Conduct intake meetings to align on leadership requirements, target candidate profiles, assessment criteria, search strategy, and expected timelines.