Sales Strategy & Operations Analyst

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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.

Job Description: This Sales Strategy Analyst will help drive sales strategy, customer-facing initiatives, and performance management support across the global Starwood Sales Organization, as well as support Starwood Sales Organization leadership team with data analysis to solve business problems. This role needs a strong analytical thinker and problem solver who has good technical skills (e.g. Excel, Access, and/or SQL) and can clearly communicate findings. A high level of curiosity, motivation, and willingness to continually learn will make the person very successful.

Essential Functions:

• Drive analytical insights and recommendations for sales leadership team on complex assignments requiring analysis, interpretation and presentation of data and information.
• Active project team member on key sales initiatives. Partner with divisional sales peers and cross-functional teams to complete problem solving and analysis for assigned projects.
• Create presentations and reports to support decisions and analytics to leadership team
• Identifying long term opportunity areas to improve sales and operations

• Strong quantitative skills
• Bachelors degree required, preferably in quantitative field (e.g. math, computer science, economics, 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
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Break down complex problems into actionable pieces
• Drive towards recommendations and action.
• High level of curiosity
• High initiative and time management skills
• Strong time management skills to deliver results on time
• Self-starter who can work independently and meet deadlines
• Passion for sales strategy and analytics
• Good team player and communicator
• Highly collaborative style
• Good communicator who can build rapport with sellers as well as clients
• Ability to positively multi-task in matrixed environment
• This job description is not an exclusive or exhaustive list of all job functions that an employee in this position may be asked to perform from time to time.