FLEX Senior Manager, Music Partnerships

The Senior Manager, Music Partnerships

This is a temporary position.

Core Activities

• Support the development of buzz-worthy partnership activation strategies, leveraging brand, business, partner, audience, cultural, market, and competitive insights to shape the overarching partnership approach.
• Manage day-to-day partner relationships, ensuring alignment, collaboration, and delivery against shared objectives.
• Create comprehensive implementation plans for partners, identifying required resources, timelines, and incremental budget needs.
• Develop and maintain an annual activation roadmap, tracking key initiatives and milestones across the calendar year.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure KPIs and revenue-generating opportunities within partnerships are fully activated and reported.
• Build and evolve a partnership activation playbook, identifying new and innovative ways to activate partners across properties, products, experiences, and marketing channels.
• Collaborate with internal teams on the development, execution, and amplification of in-market events.
• Oversee end-to-end project management of activations, including cross-functional coordination and agency management.
• Work collaboratively across the MI ecosystem to amplify activations, from delivering one-of-a-kind experiences for Marriott Bonvoy members to creating breakthrough content and buzz-worthy in-market executions.
• Be on-site for activations to ensure smooth delivery and partnership management

Candidate Profile

• Education and Experience
• Required:
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in Business Administration, Hospitality Management, Marketing, or a related field.
• 6+ years of progressive experience with a strong background in brand and partnership marketing strategy and activation, with hands-on experience bringing programs from concept through execution.
• Proven ability to deliver results in complex, matrixed, fast-paced environments, particularly when navigating ambiguity, competing priorities, and evolving conditions.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and creatively, balancing big-picture thinking with executional rigor while managing the interests of multiple stakeholders.
• PREFERRED:
• Experience working with global marketing and/or experiential agencies
• Experience collaborating with global and cross-regional teams