Sales Strategy Analyst

Company Description:
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with more than 1000 properties in over 100 countries, is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of hotels and resorts with the following internationally renowned brands: St. Regis®, The Luxury Collection®, Sheraton®, Westin®, Four Points® by Sheraton, W®, Le Méridien®, Aloft®and Element®. Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., a subsidiary of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., is one of the premier developers and operators of high quality vacation interval ownership resorts. For more information, please visit www.starwoodhotels.com or www.starwoodvacationownership.com.

Location:
White Plains, NY & New York, NY

• This role will split time between the headquarters and the sales office in Manhattan.
• When the headquarters moves to Stamford, CT in December of 2011, this role will move to Stamford.

Essential Functions:

• Analyze sales data, trends, and information to uncover key drivers of performance and assist in developing recommendations using Excel, Access, and/or SQL
• Assist in development, creation, and execution of new sales strategies and support across multiple teams
• Conduct analytics on sales data to uncover the drivers of sales performance and provide recommendations on how to drive more business
• Create ad hoc analyses on relevant sales issues to help senior leaders make business decisions
• Design, run, and analyze new and existing tools with Excel, Access and/or SQL to assist decision making
• Assist in development of new sales tools help address sellers' and Starwood's needs
• Run and analyze existing reports to help sellers and leaders make decisions
• Support account teams and help service customers
• Make decisions and/or mediate regarding account challenges or concerns
• Deliver accurate and immediate follow-up, while interacting with customers, hotels and teams
• Identifying long term opportunity areas to improve sales and operations

• Strong technical skills
• Bachelor's Degree required, preferably in quantitative field (e.g. math, computer science, physics, statistics)
• 2-4 years of working with and analyzing data and reports preferred
• Superior Excel & Access skills, especially with higher analytics and modeling (e.g. vlookups, sumifs, pivots)
• Experience with SQL, Microstrategy, or statistics programming a plus
• Strong quantitative analytics and data interpretation skills that can address business issues
• High initiative, independence, and time management skills
• Strong time management skills to deliver results
• Strategic problem solver who can find insights and appropriate recommendations
• High curiosity and the willingness to continue to learn and grow
• Passion for sales strategy and analytics
• Good team player
• Good communicator who can build rapport with sellers as well as clients
• Ability to positively multi-task in matrixed environment