Manager, Talent Analytics

Job Number

24051471

Job Category

Human Resources

Location

Marriott International HQ, 7750 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland, United States VIEW ON MAP

Schedule

Full-Time

Located Remotely?

N

Relocation?

N

Position Type

Management

Job Summary

Are you deeply curious about how Talent Analytics is driving the future of work? Do you enjoy maneuvering complex data sets, building elegant data products, and telling compelling stories? Do you focus on driving decisions through simple applications as opposed to just building dashboards?

Marriott, the world’s largest hotel company, is seeking someone like you to help enhance its Talent Analytics capabilities, understand its workforce and carve out the future of human capital management. This role entails outstanding business to technical translation, structured creative thinking, cross-functional collaboration, UX/UI design, and hands-on development of custom applications, including: analytics products, web applications, dashboards, and productized reports. This role is part of a highly visible team that is tasked with putting the tools in the hands of the leaders defining the future of Marriott. As part of the Analytics Applications team, you will be responsible for building and deploying the best custom analytics applications to our global HR stakeholders. The Manager will build advanced analytics tools and foster a culture built on the “power of data” with the rest of the organization. 

Candidate Profile

Education And Experience

• 4-year degree from an accredited university in Business, Computer Science, Human Resources, Information Technology, Engineering, Operations Research, or Math or other quantitative discipline AND 2+ years of relevant professional experience, demonstrating progressive career growth and a pattern of exceptional performance OR Advanced degree in operations research, applied mathematics, statistics, economics, physics, business analytics, engineering 
• 1-3 years experience gathering data with SQL required.
• 1-3 years experience data analysis required, including querying and manipulation of billions of records of data, independently structuring analysis and synthesizing large volumes of complex information from multiple sources required
• Experience or knowledge in UI/UX design a strong plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required, especially in the context of managing processes, technical documentation, and delivering analysis across diverse stakeholder set. 
• Excellent project management skills required, capable of independently managing and proactively driving completion of multiple projects with different stakeholders.
• Excellent organization skills, specifically focused on keeping documentation up to date, organized, and correct.
• Excellent problem solving skills, focused on identifying and implementing the correct long-term solution.
• Experience visualizing data in Oracle DV, Oracle APEX, Tableau or PowerBI required, human resources data types preferred
• Experience building custom applications a strong plus (Oracle APEX preferred).
• Experience with HTML and CSS, ideally within Oracle toolkit, a strong plus.
• Experience in building custom user interfaces, front end web development is a strong plus
• Experience manipulating large data sets in Python, R, or SAS is a strong plus
• Experience developing analytics products in people-related domains such as marketing, sales, human resources, customer experience, etc. a strong plus
• Interest in growing your career in the talent/people analytics space

Core Activities

Support Talent Analytics

• Develop analytics applications with an eye towards elegant design and a global set of users
• Design, build, test, and deploy new web application pages to support in key HR business processes, with a focus on simplicity, non-technical, and easy to navigate interfaces.
• Collaborate with global HR professionals, COE partners, and HR Leadership to define, build, and test the best analytics/technology solution for the end user.
• Conceptualize, design and build data models and materialized views for use by the broader analytics team, and key analytics HR super users
• Lead governance, and documentation efforts for the team and our stakeholders, including: ongoing data governance activities, testing plans, technical/ application/ and system documentation, and standardization of methods across all Talent Analytics products.
• Explain complex analytics to a broad audience with varying levels of technical background and understanding.
• Partners with HR leaders to support their efforts through understanding custom applications, strategic analysis, tracking performance vs. goals, driving process improvements, providing recommendations and insights for future efforts
• Measures effectiveness of key human resources efforts, applying best practices and proposing the right analytical techniques for measuring effectiveness
• Help define technical standards and calculations for talent analytics and reporting
• Conduct deep dive analytics relative to user adoption and behavior and the effectiveness of all Talent Analytics products

Delivering On The Needs Of Key Stakeholders

• Solves business problems using data and analytically based solutions. 
• Identifies creative solutions to complex and challenging analytical problems. 
• Provides technical expertise and support to persons inside and outside of the department.
• 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.
• 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.

Additional Responsibilities 

• Demonstrates self confidence, energy and enthusiasm.
• Keeps up-to-date technically and applies new knowledge to job.
• 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.

Marriott International is an equal opportunity employer. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive, people-first culture. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, such as disability and veteran status, or any other basis covered under applicable law.

Marriott International is the world’s largest hotel company, with more brands, more hotels and more opportunities for associates to grow and succeed.

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