JOB TITLE: Project Manager

JOB LOCATION: White Plains , New York

PERMANENT OR CONTRACT--Perm/Regular FTE

SALARY RANGE: Negotiable

AMOUNT OF TRAVEL--VARIES; APPROX. 20%

REQUIRED SKILLS: At least 3-5 years of experience managing medium to large scale information technology projects; requires experience with the software development life cycle, the budgeting process, and managing third party partner/vendor relationships.

CONTACT INFO: cheryl.moran@starwoodhotels.com

PROJECT MANAGER--STARWOOD HOTELS & RESORTS WORLDWIDE, INC.-- WHITE PLAINS , NEW YORK

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with approximately 850 properties in more than 95 countries and 145,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. Starwood Hotels 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 and the recently announced aloft. Starwood Hotels also owns Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., one of the premier developers and operators of high quality vacation interval ownership resorts.

We are currently seeking an IT Project Managerto be based at our Corporate Offices in White Plains , New York . This position will be responsible for managing medium to large scale Information Technology projects. The Project Manager will perform the tasks of a Project Manager on IT/application development projects within Starwood. The Project Manager will be responsible for maintaining project plans, project budgets, risk and issue tracking and mitigation, project communications internally with the team as well as to business leads and business sponsors.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Project communications both internal to the team as well as to business leads and sponsors

Project budgets

Managing project plans, tracking and mitigating risk and issues on the project

Key Responsibilities:

Responsible for managing medium to large scale information technology projects

The project manager must be able to multi-task, working one or more software development projects, managing budgets, identifying and mitigating project risks and issues, etc.

Leads the development and tracking of project plans

Establishes and maintains clear and consistent project communications to entire stakeholder community

Works with the SDM (Solutions Delivery Manager) on project plans, budgets, risks and issues and mitigation of both

Tracks and maintains budgeted capital projects

Maintains processes to manage scope over the project lifecycle

Ensures key project roles and responsibilities are defined

Ensures the use of best practices and applies lessons learned from previous projects

Successful experience influencing projects in a "matrix" environment

Effectively brings the technical and business teams together to solve complex issues

Manages third party partner and/or vendor relationships and deliverables

SUPPORTIVE FUNCTIONS

In addition to performance of the essential functions, this position may be required to perform a combination of supportive functions, such as:

· When projects are initiated the project manager assigned will be responsible for getting project estimates from the technical teams and creating documentation to get budget required

· Establishes and maintains project communications

· Tracks and maintains project budgets, capital and expenses

· Assesses and manages risks and issues within a project

SPECIFIC JOB KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

The individual must possess the following knowledge, skills and abilities and be able to explain and demonstrate that he or she can perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, using some other combination of knowledge, skills, and abilities:

· Tools:MS Project, MS Word, Visio, MS Excel, PowerPoint, Rational’s Tool set

· Operating Systems: Windows XP, 2003, NT,HPUX,Solaris

· Applications: SAP Financials and SAP Project Systems, MQ Series

· Processes: Rational Unified Process (RUP) or SDLC equivalent

· Languages: Familiarity with object-oriented languages including Java, C++

· Frameworks: Familiarity with J2EE and .NET

· Databases: Oracle, DB2, Access, SQL Server

QUALIFICATION STANDARDS

Education: 4 Year College Degree

Experience: 3-5 years Project Management in Application Development Experience, including involvement in the software development life-cycle (SDLC).

Licenses or Certificates: PMP/PMI preferred but not required

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.