Sr. Manager, Talent Analytics

JOB SUMMARY

Marriott, the world's largest hotel company, is seeking a Talent Analytics leader to help enhance its HR Analytics capabilities through the delivery of scalable analytics products and actionable workforce insights that support global HR decision-making. As part of a highly visible team, this position plays a dual role-leading the development of analytics products while also conducting and translating people analytics research into clear, compelling stories that drive business action.

The Senior Manager, Talent Analytics leads the end-to-end delivery of analytics products, translating prioritized business needs into scalable, high-quality solutions. In parallel, the role partners with stakeholders to frame business questions, conduct workforce analyses and research, and communicate findings through executive-ready narratives and recommendations. Working closely with Analytics Research, Data Engineering, and Global Technology teams, this position ensures products and insights are delivered efficiently, meet business requirements, and remain sustainable over time. It also plays a critical role in shaping HR analytics strategy, advancing modern product-based analytics, and fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making across a diverse, global HR stakeholder community.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Experience

Required

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business discipline required
• 5+ years of relevant experience in analytics, strategy, consulting, or product management, with increasing leadership responsibility (for candidates with a bachelor's degree) OR 2+ years of relevant experience with an advanced degree
• 5+ years experience developing data visualizations using tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or Oracle Data Visualization
• 5+ years experience building custom analytics applications (Oracle APEX, Oracle Visual Builder Studio or similar platforms)
• 5+ years of SQL/data querying experience

Preferred

• Advanced degree
• 1-3 years of HTML/CSS experience
• Experience managing delivery of analytics or data products at enterprise scale across global, matrixed organizations
• Experience working with cross-functional teams (product, engineering, business stakeholders)
• Experience managing or influencing cross-functional teams delivering analytics or data products

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

1. Analytics Product Delivery

• Lead end-to-end execution of analytics product builds (dashboards, data pipelines, applications, reporting tools)
• Define and evolve the product roadmap for HR analytics solutions, aligning investments to business priorities and enterprise data strategy
• Translate business requirements into clear technical specifications and delivery plans
• Manage sprint execution, timelines, and delivery quality across multiple concurrent initiatives
• Ensure solutions are scalable, performant, and aligned to enterprise standards

2. Analytics Development (UI & Semantic Layers)

• Design and develop analytics applications using low-code platforms (e.g., Oracle APEX, Visual Builder), including hands-on configuration and build of production-ready solutions
• Partner with engineering and product teams to build integrated front-end experiences across analytics and application layers
• Drive best practices in UI/UX for analytics products, ensuring usability, accessibility, and consistency across platforms
• Understand back-end solutions, including APIs, databases, and server-side scripting to be able to communicate requirements to the research team.
• Develop and maintain application documentation, including flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code
• Ensure application operability by troubleshooting and resolving software or implementation issues
• Conceptualize, design and build data models for use by the broader analytics team, and key analytics HR super users.

3. Cross-Functional Partnership & Requirements

• Explain complex analytics to a broad audience with varying levels of technical background and understanding.
• Partner with planning teams to articulate possible solutions to business problems and to develop requirements for new models
• Partner closely with continent partners, HR leadership, and centers of excellence to understand prioritized demand and requirements
• Identify and solve complex business challenges using data-driven approaches and scalable analytics solutions
• Collaborate with data engineering and analytics teams to deliver integrated solutions
• Serve as the bridge between technical teams and business stakeholders during execution
• Lead change management efforts to drive adoption of modern analytics products, transitioning stakeholders from legacy reporting to scalable, self-service solutions
• Influence and guide HR stakeholders in evolving how analytics is consumed, interpreted, and applied to decision-making

4. Product Quality & Standards

• Ensure application performance, reliability, and scalability through structured testing (e.g., functional, performance, and user acceptance testing)
• Ensure consistency in data definitions, calculations, and product design
• Establish and uphold standards for analytics product quality, usability, and performance
• Ensure clear documentation of analytics products, including data definitions, logic, and user workflows to support adoption and sustainability

5. Operational Excellence

• Write, update, and maintain technical requirements. These technical requirements should be able to be easily understood and translated into code by technical resources that are not in attendance at business facing calls.
• Optimize delivery processes, including agile workflows, sprint planning, and release management
• Identify opportunities to streamline development and reduce redundancy across products
• Manage dependencies across projects and teams

6. Analytics Storytelling & Research

• Develop executive-ready presentations, visualizations, and communications that connect data insights to business outcomes and talent strategies.
• Partner with HR leaders, Centers of Excellence, and business stakeholders to frame analytical findings in ways that influence decisions and drive action.
• Lead and support people analytics research initiatives, including workforce studies, talent assessments, program evaluations, benchmarking, and ad hoc strategic analyses.
• Apply research methodologies to identify trends, uncover root causes, and generate actionable insights from large and complex workforce datasets.

Core Skills

Key Skills & Capabilities

• Ability to balance hands-on development with product leadership, selectively contributing to build efforts using low-code tools where speed and iteration are critical
• Strong product delivery and execution mindset
• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions
• Experience with analytics tools, data modeling, and reporting platforms
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Effective communicator across technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience communicating analytical findings through presentations, visualizations, and business narratives tailored to diverse audiences
• Knowledge of people analytics research methods, including hypothesis development, study design, statistical analysis, and interpretation of findings.

Technical Skills

• Advanced SQL and experience querying and manipulating large-scale datasets
• Experience building custom analytics applications; Oracle APEX, Oracle Visual Builder Studio or similar platforms a strong plus
• Front-end development skills, including HTML and CSS
• Advanced data visualization development experience using tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or Oracle Data Visualization
• Strong data analysis capabilities, including structuring complex analyses across large and diverse datasets
• Experience with UI/UX design principles for analytics products and user interfaces
• Familiarity with cloud-based analytics and data modeling tools (e.g., Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, semantic modeling tools)
• Experience with programming languages for data analysis (e.g., Python, R, or SAS) a plus
• Experience building front-end interfaces and custom user experiences for analytics products
• Ability to synthesize quantitative and qualitative findings into concise business insights and executive communications.

What Success Looks Like

• Analytics products are delivered on time, high quality, and scalable
• Research initiatives generate meaningful insights that shape talent programs, workforce planning, and organizational priorities.
• Analytics products drive measurable adoption and enable self-service insights across the global HR community
• Analytics products are easy to use and contain accurate, relevant data for stakeholders to make timely data driven decisions
• Stakeholders transition from manual and legacy reporting to scalable, self-service analytics solutions
• Stakeholders experience consistent, reliable solutions
• Delivery processes are efficient, predictable, and transparent

At Marriott International, we are dedicated to being an equal opportunity employer, welcoming all and providing access to opportunity. We actively foster an environment where the unique backgrounds of our associates are valued and celebrated. Our greatest strength lies in the rich blend of culture, talent, and experiences of our associates.  We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, including disability, veteran status, or other basis protected by applicable law.

All positions offer a 401(k) plan, stock purchase plan, discounts at Marriott properties, commuter benefits, employee assistance plan, and childcare discounts. Benefits are subject to terms and conditions, which may include rules regarding eligibility, enrollment, waiting period, contribution, benefit limits, election changes, benefit exclusions, and others. Click here to learn more.

Full-time positions also offer coverage for medical, dental, vision, health care flexible spending account, dependent care flexible spending account, life insurance, disability insurance, accident insurance, adoption expense reimbursements, paid parental leave and educational assistance.

Washington Applicants Only: Employees will accrue paid sick leave, 0.077 PTO balance for every hour worked and be eligible to receive a minimum of 9 holidays annually.

Marriott HQ is committed to a hybrid work environment that enables associates to Be connected. Headquarters-based positions are considered hybrid, for candidates within a commuting distance to Bethesda, MD; candidates outside of commuting distance to Bethesda, MD will be considered for Remote positions.