Senior Manager, Loyalty Member Experience Products
About the role
The Senior Manager, Elite Benefits Design and Execution owns the accuracy, integrity, and day-to-day operation of the Marriott Bonvoy Elite tier program, including annual Achiever/Renewer (Year-End) processing, partner and cobrand status integrations, and Paths to Elite offers. This role also serves as a subject matter expert on strategic initiatives shaping the future of the Elite program, including new tier and benefit design, the Loyalty Re-Platform to Salesforce, and Elite Member Recognition efforts. This position partners extensively across Data/Analytics, Finance, Global Technology (GT), Digital, Loyalty Marketing, Global Operations, and CEC to deliver against business objectives within agreed-upon budgets and timelines, and must be equally comfortable managing complex technical/data workstreams and leading forward-looking program design.
Core Work Activities
Own Elite Tier Management and Year-End Processing
- Lead annual Achiever/Renewer (Year-End) processing end-to-end, overseeing 100+ technical tickets across dozens of workstreams in partnership with GT, Digital, and Marketing teams.
- Document and continuously improve Year-End processes to reduce errors and increase accuracy and repeatability year over year.
- Produce member-facing help content and partner with Loyalty Marketing to deploy Year-End member communications.
- Provide regular Elite tier health reporting and program management updates to stakeholders and leadership.
Manage Partner and Cobrand Elite Integrations
- Support data accuracy and reconciliation with strategic partners (e.g., airline status-match partners, cobrand card issuers), including periodic reconciliation cycles.
- Write requirements and lead cross-functional processes for partner reconciliation, liaising with partners and Data/Analytics on analysis and file exchange.
- Document repeatable processes for partner onboarding and maintenance to establish standards for future strategic partnerships.
- Facilitate technical set-up and approvals for Paths to Elite offers, challenges, and status matches with partners.
Create & Lead Various Member Recognition Programs
- Own strategy and end-to-end execution of the Elite Birthday Recognition program, from concept through launch and ongoing operations.
- Partner with Gift Card, Data, and Digital Marketing teams to build, test, and deploy audience pulls, gift cards, and member communications.
- Manage program rollout to hotels and Global Operations, including knowledge articles, FAQs, and communications.
- Maintain program performance and evolve strategy as the program expands to new audiences.
- Support other Elite benefits as needed to drive recognition of valuable members
Serve as subject matter expert on Elite Benefits, across various touch points
- Manage the Elite Terms and Conditions and FAQs
- Manage/provide Member support and training for CEC, Social and PR
- Support the Loyalty Replatforming effort and the design of Future Elite Tiers and Benefits based on expertise of current state