Our company is looking for a talented Strategic Project Manager to join our dynamic hospitality team. This position sits at the intersection of strategic project execution, data management, and business intelligence, ensuring our team has the tools, insights, and supplier relationships to scale effectively across our luxury hotel portfolio..
Ideal Project Managers thrive at the intersection of data, operations, and strategy. You should enjoy managing cross-functional workflows across supplier, platform, and hotel initiatives, structuring and refining complex data sets, and bringing clarity to fast-moving projects. A sharp eye for detail, strong communication skills, and a proactive mindset are essential. Familiarity with hospitality operations-especially revenue management, third-party distribution, and supplier ecosystems-is a strong plus.
Your StoryYou are a key contributor, trusted by leadership to take on high-impact strategic initiatives that drive business intelligence and operational efficiencies across our core business segments. You thrive in fast-paced, analytical environments, managing multiple concurrent projects, reconciling datasets, building dashboards, and delivering strategic insights to shape decision-making at the highest levels. You enjoy engaging directly with and supporting a core startup team along with key stakeholders across client organizations to support their strategic needs. You're knowledgeable and passionate about driving our clients' 5 star luxury guest experiences and their exceptional financial performance.
Your relevant skills in consulting, project management, and data management, exceptional business acumen, and knowledge of the hospitality industry and emergent trends have propelled your success in school or prior employment. You are an enthusiastic self-starter with the ability to work on your own initiative while acting as a collaborative team player who easily interacts with senior management.
You enjoy working in a team environment, helping others, traveling the world, embracing the world of luxury, and building long term relationships.
Here's what we expect from our DayBlink GPO Strategic Project Managers: - Project management of procurement and onboarding of over 100+ key supplier relationships
- Oversee purchasing data for our hotel clients, ensuring insights into spend efficiency and supplier preferences
- Reconcile reservations from distribution partners to maintain accuracy in reporting and financial tracking
- Assist in the development and maintenance of our central purchasing technology platform
- Drive the onboarding and supplier management of new key member hotels
- Develop dashboards that visualize KPIs governing hotel performance, identifying trends and optimization opportunities.
- Collaborate with leadership to create executive-facing presentations that translate data insights into strategic decisions.
- Flex across multiple business segments in support of high growth company initiatives
- Contribute to project teams as an active member, with an emphasis on creating high-quality deliverable
- Prepare and present clear, high-quality presentations, reports, and other documents in an engaging and effective manner as required
- Articulate recommendations to senior client executives and senior management
- Establish and maintain your personal brand identity in a particular industry, skill set or knowledge base
- Consistently strive for individual development opportunities through external and internal projects
An ideal candidate will have: - Commitment to quality, strict attention to detail, and entrepreneurialism
- Collaborative work style
- Comfort with autonomy and a work environment that requires you to hold yourself accountable
- Composure under normal and high-pressure circumstances
- Strong oral and written communication skills; ability to prepare and deliver high quality presentation documents independently and with minimal review
- Strong interpersonal skills, experience participating effectively in a team environment and building internal and external relationships
- Strong technical acumen and the ability to quickly learn new technologies and technical concepts
- Ability to seek innovative and creative solutions to complex technical/business problems
- Willing to get involved in many different aspects of the business as needed, including management consulting engagements and initiatives if required
- Proficiency in MS Office package (Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel)
- Proficiency in G-Suite package (Google Slides and Sheets)
Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree
- 2-3 years of experience in project management, consulting, data management, or business analytics
- Strong project management skills across cross-functional initiatives
- Experience reconciling and cleaning data across multiple sources for ingestion into databases
- Ability to build dashboards and work with visualization tools
- Excellent interpersonal skills; oral and written communication skills
- Proven work ethic and comfort with significant workload
- Ability to travel when deemed essential
Preference Will Be Given To Candidates Who Have: - Track record of excellence (promoted early, recognized for their achievements, and can provide quality samples of past work)
- Strong proficiency in SQL, Python, Tableau or other relevant data management tools
- Familiarity with GPO purchasing models or supplier marketplaces in hospitality procurement.
- Consulting experience or ability to communicate complex findings to leadership in a structured, actionable manner.
Job Specifications - Location: DC Metro Area preferred, potential for fully remote work for candidates near major metropolitan airports
- Competitive Compensation, with bonus incentive based upon performance
