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Ashley

Sales Professional

Sterling, VA

We are looking for professional Sales Professionals that have great energy and a winning ... Strong interpersonal communication skills; a great listener * Basic computer knowledge is required

M.C. Dean, Inc

Safety Professional 1

Baltimore, MD · On-site

Responsibilities The Safety Professional is responsible for oversight of Construction Project ... Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

M.C. Dean, Inc

Safety Professional 1

Ashburn, VA · On-site

Responsibilities The Safety Professional is responsible for oversight of Construction Project ... Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

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As of May 29, 2026, the average hourly pay for professional listener in Silver Spring, MD is $17.27, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $14.86 and $19.09 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

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A Professional Listener is someone who provides a safe, nonjudgmental space for others to talk and be heard. They actively listen, offer emotional support, and help people process their thoughts without giving advice or therapy. This role is often sought by those who need to express themselves without fear of criticism. It can be used in personal, professional, or emotional contexts. Professional Listeners may work independently or through listening services.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive in the Professional Listener position, and why are they important?

To excel as a Professional Listener, one needs exceptional active listening abilities, strong interpersonal communication skills, and often a background in counseling, psychology, or social work. Familiarity with case management databases, note-taking tools, and sometimes certification in mental health first aid or peer support training are commonly beneficial. High emotional intelligence, patience, and the ability to maintain confidentiality help individuals stand out in this position. These skills ensure trust-building, effective support, and ethical practice while managing sensitive conversations.

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A common challenge for Professional Listeners is managing emotional fatigue or compassion fatigue, as the role involves regularly hearing about clients' stressful or distressing experiences. To address this, many organizations offer regular supervision, peer support groups, and access to mental health resources to support the listener’s well-being. Another challenge is maintaining clear boundaries and professionalism, for which ongoing training and adherence to established protocols are crucial. Emphasizing self-care and setting realistic expectations helps Professional Listeners sustain their effectiveness and avoid burnout in this rewarding but emotionally demanding role.
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Manager, Customer Listening Center & Social Listening

Manager, Customer Listening Center & Social Listening

Marriott International

Bethesda, MD • On-site

$87.30K - $144.90K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 10 days ago

Marriott International rating

6.4

Company rating: 6.4 out of 10

Based on 1,127 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

51st of 105 rated hotels

Job description

Job Description
JOB SUMMARY
The Manager, Customer Listening Center plays a critical role in translating customer signals into actionable insights that inform enterprise decision-making and elevate the customer experience. The Customer Listening Center (CLC) product brings together all forms of customer feedback - from surveys and social media to phone calls and chats - into a unified platform that drives prioritization and strategy of global customer pain points and insights.
This role leads social listening strategy and synthesis across platforms, integrating social, Voice of Customer (VOC), and emerging customer signals into broader customer experience intelligence along with supporting the broader mission of the CLC. This position supports the operationalization, interpretation, and socialization of insights surfaced through the CLC. The Manager ensures social, VOC, and real-time customer sentiment is accurately represented, contextualized, and activated across the organization-while enabling stakeholders to effectively consume and apply insights in their decision-making.
The role works cross-functionally with Enterprise Data Analytics & AI, Digital, Loyalty, Operations, and corporate partners to identify emerging themes, risks, and opportunities. This leader provides expertise in social and VOC analytics, narrative development, and insight storytelling, helping bridge data to action.
This position requires strong analytical judgment, stakeholder management, and communication skills, along with the ability to synthesize complex data into clear implications and recommendations. The Senior Manager will manage agency resources, contribute hands-on analysis, and continuously evolve social listening practices to support enterprise CX priorities.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Education and Experience:
  • 4-year degree from an accredited university in Business Administration, Marketing, or related major and 4+ years of relevant professional experience, demonstrating progressive career growth and a pattern of exceptional performance;

OR
  • 4+ years of relevant professional experience in consumer marketing research, voice of customer, analytics or related function, demonstrating progressive career growth and pattern of exceptional performance.
  • Hands-on experience with CX software platforms (Medallia, Qualtrics, Sprinklr, etc.).Experience with storytelling and working with social media
  • Demonstrated ability to balance the interests and demands of multiple stakeholders
  • Demonstrated ability to simply map out complex process flow and procedures

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES
  • Produce synthesized insights, implications and related strategic recommendations using social media data that drive customer-centric strategy and initiative development.
  • Lead and support daily M Live social media reporting and analytics, striving to quickly identify new/emerging themes in social media and distribute to the organization.
  • Support operations of the command center's M Live platform, and real-time technology dashboards.
  • Partner with in-Continent M-Live leaders and Social Platforms support teams to improve data integration and workflow efficiencies across the social media teams.
  • Proactively identify ways to incorporate social media analyses with other consumer research, data analysis, and other insight-gathering activities to minimize investment and maximize value to MI.
  • Effectively coordinate with extended Global Insights, Strategy, and Analytics team members, and, when needed, external vendors/suppliers to ensure social media insights are delivered in a timely, high quality, and cost-effective manner.
  • Effectively manages multiple internal clients and projects simultaneously.

Delivering on the Needs of Key Stakeholders
  • Understands and meets the needs of key stakeholders.
  • Develops specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish work.
  • Determines priorities, schedules, plans and necessary resources to ensure completion of any projects on schedule.
  • Collaborates with internal partners and stakeholders to support business/initiative strategies.
  • Synthesizes findings from social media sources; creates meaningful insights and clear implications for action.
  • Communicates concepts in a clear and persuasive manner that is easy to understand.
  • Generates and provides accurate and timely results in the form of reports, presentations, etc.
  • Demonstrates an understanding of business priorities.

Maintaining Goals
  • Submits reports in a timely manner, ensuring delivery deadlines are met.
  • Promotes the documenting of project progress accurately.
  • Provides input and assistance to other teams regarding projects.

Managing Work, Projects, and Policies
  • Manages and implements work and projects as assigned.
  • Generates and provides accurate and timely results in the form of daily reports, presentations, etc.
  • Analyzes information and evaluates results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
  • Provides timely, accurate, and detailed status reports as requested.
  • Builds strong relationships with stakeholders, team members, and vendor partners.

Demonstrating and Applying Discipline Knowledge
  • Provides technical expertise and support to persons inside and outside of the department.
  • Demonstrates knowledge of job-relevant issues, products, systems, and processes.
  • Demonstrates knowledge of function-specific procedures.
  • Keeps up-to-date technically and applies new knowledge to job.
  • Uses computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to enter data and/ or process information.

Additional Responsibilities
  • Provides information to supervisors and co-workers by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person in a timely manner.
  • Demonstrates self-confidence, energy and enthusiasm.
  • Informs and/or updates leaders on relevant information in a timely manner.
  • Manages time effectively and conducts activities in an organized manner.
  • Presents ideas, expectations and information in a concise, organized manner.
  • Uses problem solving methodology for decision making and follow up.
  • Performs other reasonable duties as assigned by manager.

MANAGEMENT COMPETENCIES
Leadership
  • Adaptability - Maintains performance level under pressure or when experiencing changes or challenges in the workplace.
  • Communication - Conveys information and ideas to others in a convincing and engaging manner through a variety of methods.
  • Problem Solving and Decision Making - Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities; obtains and compares information from different sources to draw conclusions, develops and evaluates alternatives and solutions, solves problems, and chooses a course of action.
  • Professional Demeanor - Exhibits behavioral styles that conveyconfidence and command respect from others; makes a goodfirst impression and represents the company in alignment with itsvalues.
  • Strategy Development - Develops business plans by exploring and systematically evaluating opportunities with the greatest potential for producing positive results; ensures successful preparation and execution of business plans through effective planning, organizing, and on-going evaluation processes.

Managing Execution
  • Building and Contributing to Teams - Participates as a memberof a team to move towardthe completion of common goalswhile fostering cohesion and collaboration among team members.
  • Strategy Execution - Ensures successful execution across of business plansdesigned to maximize customer satisfaction, profitability, and market share through effective planning, organizing, and on-going evaluation processes.
  • Driving for Results - Sets high standards of performance for self and/or others; assumes responsibility for work objectives; initiates, focuses, and monitors the efforts of self and/or others toward the accomplishment goals; proactively takes action and goes beyond what is required.
  • Planning and Organizing - Gathers information and resources required to set a plan of action for self and/orothers; prioritizes andarranges work requirements to accomplish goals and ensure work is completed.

Building Relationships
  • Customer Relationships - Develops and sustains relationships based on an understanding of customer/stakeholder needsand actions consistent with the company's service standards.
  • Coworker Relationships - Interacts withothers in a way thatbuilds openness, trust,and confidence in the pursuitof organizational goalsand lasting relationships.
  • Global Mindset - Supports employees and business partners with diverse styles, abilities, motivations, and/or cultural perspectives; utilizes differences to drive innovation, engagement and enhance business results; and ensures employees are given the opportunity to contribute to their full potential.

Generating Talent and Organizational Capability
  • Organizational Capability - Evaluates and adapts the structure of assignments and work processes to best fit the needsand/or support the goals of an organizational unit.
  • Talent Management - Provides supportand feedback to help individuals develop and strengthen skills and abilities needed to accomplish work objectives.

Learning and Applying Professional Expertise
  • Applied Learning - Seeks and makes the most of learning opportunities to improve performance of self and/or others.
  • Business Acumen - Understands and utilizes business information to manageeveryday operations and generate innovative solutions to approach business and administrative challenges.
  • Technical Acumen - Understands andutilizes professional skillsand knowledge in a specific functional area to conduct andmanage everyday business operations and generate innovative solutions to approach function-specific work challenges.
    • Familiarity and experience with social media listening, data, and systems to support analysis
    • Demonstrates working knowledge of discipline-specific systems, tools and business practices.
    • Is able to understand and analyze multiple sources and typesof information (qualitative and quantitative) to derive
      insights and strategic recommendations.
  • Basic Competencies - Fundamental competencies required for accomplishing basic work activities.
    • Basic Computer Skills - Usesbasic computer hardware and software (e.g.,personal computers, word processing software, Internet browsers, etc.).
    • Mathematical Reasoning - Adds, subtracts, multiplies, or divides quickly, correctly, and in a way that allows one to solve work- related issues.
    • Oral Comprehension - Listens to and understands information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
    • Reading Comprehension - Understands written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
    • Writing - Communicates effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

At Marriott International, we are dedicated to being an equal opportunity employer, welcoming all and providing access to opportunity. We actively foster an environment where the unique backgrounds of our associates are valued and celebrated. Our greatest strength lies in the rich blend of culture, talent, and experiences of our associates. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, including disability, veteran status, or other basis protected by applicable law.
About Us
All positions offer a 401(k) plan, stock purchase plan, discounts at Marriott properties, commuter benefits, employee assistance plan, and childcare discounts. Benefits are subject to terms and conditions, which may include rules regarding eligibility, enrollment, waiting period, contribution, benefit limits, election changes, benefit exclusions, and others. Click here to learn more.
Full-time positions also offer coverage for medical, dental, vision, health care flexible spending account, dependent care flexible spending account, life insurance, disability insurance, accident insurance, adoption expense reimbursements, paid parental leave and educational assistance.
Washington Applicants Only: Employees will accrue paid sick leave, 0.077 PTO balance for every hour worked and be eligible to receive a minimum of 9 holidays annually.
Marriott HQ is committed to a hybrid work environment that enables associates to Be connected. Headquarters-based positions are considered hybrid, for candidates within a commuting distance to Bethesda, MD; candidates outside of commuting distance to Bethesda, MD will be considered for Remote positions.

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