Description
 
Marriott International offers you the opportunity to find the hospitality job and career journey that’s right for you. With more than 5700 properties and 30 brands you’ll find us in your neighborhood and in more than 110 countries across the globe. Find Your World™ at Marriott.
 
Qualifications
 

JOB SUMMARY
 

Applies cutting-edge techniques in the development of business solutions to challenging problems in the hospitality industry.  This rewarding position provides a career as part of a team that makes a direct revenue impact on Marriott hotels, globally, by providing tools that facilitate data-driven decision making in the disciplines of pricing, revenue management, sales and reservations.  Works as part of a team that supports multiple analysis and modeling efforts, provides pricing and statistical modeling and technical expertise; contributes programming and analysis in revenue management and sales systems; analyzes data and builds optimization, statistical and forecasting models to address business needs; delivers business solutions with analytical or research-oriented activities to assist our business in an innovative and impactful manner; functions as a subject matter expert in all phases of the project lifecycle – inception, prototyping, design, testing, rollout and support.  The Operations Research team seeks a flexible candidate with a willingness to learn that brings unique perspectives to enable creative data-driven solutions to the challenges at Marriott.
 

CANDIDATE PROFILE
 

Education and Experience
Required:

    Graduate degree in Operations Research or related field (Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Management Science, Economics, Computer Science or Engineering)
    1-2 years’ industry or research experience; applying analytical and programming skills against complex mathematical modeling and/or systems development
    3 years’ experience in software development
    An inherent curiosity in developing solutions to complex and often open-ended business problems
    An interest in continually learning new techniques and technologies to solve modeling challenges
    An ability to explain and present mathematical concepts and results to technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred:

    PhD Operations Research or related field (noted in required)
    Experience with designing or supporting analytical systems, focusing on model quality and code efficiency
    Understands complex, discrete data sets with subtle underlying biases
    Experience performing predictive modeling, forecasting, or statistical analysis on large scale datasets
    Experience in developing analytic driven solutions to business problems
    SAS programming (including SAS/HPF, SAS/ETS, and macros). 
    Knowledge and experience with Python (pandas / Numpy / SciPy), Java or C/C++, SQL at an advanced level with an understanding of complexity theory
    Experience with linear, mixed integer, non-linear or dynamic programming models and familiarity with optimization software (CPLEX, Gurobi).
    Strong communications skills and ability to work within a team
    Knowledge of relational databases and object-oriented development environments.

 
CORE WORK ACTIVITIES
 
Technical Leadership

    Trains and/or mentors other team members, and peers as appropriate
    Provides financial input on department or project budgets, capital expenditures or other cost/resource estimates as requested

 

Delivering Technology

    Formulates methods for measuring the effectiveness of pricing and revenue management activities.
    Prepares detailed specifications for translation of complex business processes into OR models and prototypes
    Designs and develops requirements for new models and the building thereof
    Develops and implements efficient, scalable algorithms using appropriate technologies/software/architectures
    Writes software and utility software tools to create and test new models
    Assists the Application Delivery teams in support of operations
    Assists the Application Deliver team in the maintenance of existing models
    Provides work/cost estimates for client requests
    Prepares documentation for client review.
    Conducts reviews, discusses findings, risks and challenges and establishes courses of action

 
IT Governance

    Follows all defined IR standards and processes (i.e. IT Governance, SM&G, Architecture, etc.), and provides input for improvements to the appropriate process owners as needed
    Maintains a proper balance between business and operational risk
    Follows the defined project management standards and processes

 
Service Provider Management

To the extent that this role interacts with service providers:

    Validates that Service Providers develop and manage respective aspects of a project plan, including schedules, deliverables, and appropriate metrics.
    Makes short term plans for the team to effectively utilize resources
    Monitors Service Provider outcomes
    Reviews estimates of work effort for client project provided by Service Providers for accuracy
    Facilitates timely resolution of service delivery problems and minimizes the impact to clients

