Analyst, Strategic Analytics/Modeling

Company: Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide
Location: White Plains, NY
Web: www.starwoodhotels.com/

Company Summary:
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with approximately 1,000 properties in more than 100 countries and 155,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. Starwood Hotels is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of hotels, resorts and residences with the following internationally renowned brands: St. Regis(R), The Luxury Collection(R), W(R), Westin(R), Le Meridien(R), Sheraton(R), Four Points(R) by Sheraton, Aloft(SM) and Element(SM). Starwood Hotels also owns Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., one of the premier developers and operators of high quality vacation interval ownership resorts. For more information, please visit www.starwoodhotels.com.

Position Purpose:
Position is responsible for developing predictive models, designing and executing ad hoc statistical research, and executing model validation and scoring for various CRM initiatives (including but not limited to, prospecting, retention and customer segmentation).

Essential Functions:

• Develop predictive models, design and execute ad hoc statistical research, and executing model validation and scoring for CRM initiatives.
• Apply advanced statistical methods to resolve business issues from internal marketing organization.
• Work directly with data contents from data warehouse and identify problems and manage projects to improve data quality.
• Responsible for collecting business requirements from business teams including interfacing directly with senior leaders, identifying modeling needs form these requirements and proposing new models or model revisions.

• Approve modeling approaches.
• Recommend analytical projects.
• Recommend order of work to be performed.

• Minimum Education - College Degree
• Preferred Course of Study - Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or other quantitative disciplines.
• Master's Degree and 1-3 years of relevant experience or Bachelor's Degree with 5-6 years of relevant experience
• Previous predictive modeling and data analytics experience
• Proficient skills in large datasets and using Oracle databases.
• Highly proficient in SQL, SAS, Unix and Excel VBA.
• Knowledge of advanced statistics (logistic regression, decision tree, time series modeling, etc).
• Hospitality/travel industry experience is strongly preferred.

_Contact_:
If you are interested in being considered for this opportunity, we require that you submit an online application on our career site at www.starwoodhotels.jobs/apply/60114504