Job Responsibilities

Managing Technology Needs

  • Drives the compliance of IT policies and standards, thereby protecting company hardware, software and other resources at the hotel.
  • Clearly and effectively articulates the Americas IT requirements for Property Infrastructure to Americas IT Associates and franchise partners.
  • Maintains and upgrades existing systems as required to maximize effective use and operational uptime to minimize revenue impacting issues.
  • Troubleshoots technical issues.
  • Creates risk mitigation plans.
  • Collaborates with Project Leads and IT team to resolve issues and produce viable and consistent solutions.
  • Manages small to medium projects and business processes with little supervision or guidance.

Building and Sustaining Relationships with Customers

  • Develops strong understanding of local property technical configurations and the impact on operations.
  • Writes and presents proposals, analyses, project plans, cost models, etc. in written and/or oral formats.
  • Provides customer service.
  • Responds to inquiries from customers/vendors/peer group.
  • Provides detailed status reports as requested.
  • Maintains an awareness of the interrelationships among on-going activities and plans work assignments and resource allocations accordingly.
  • Creates system guidelines and manuals for the organization.
  • Runs training sessions and workshops on system processes.
  • Conducts regular reviews of systems and generates reports on efficiencies and improvement areas.
  • Structures and prioritizes business requirements and communicates plans with stakeholders for review and approval.

Verifying Client Technology Needs are Met

  • Provides input and follows standard SOP’s for security, compliance, change control and DR.
  • Serves as escalation point and reference to field IT associates for implementation needs and requirements.
  • Audits Americas IT inventories for compliance (i.e., verifying software inventory compliance, hardware inventories).
  • Assists in disaster recovery and business continuity as it relates to technology.
  • Provides technical guidance.
  • Provides escalation and guidance to property pertaining to guest and associate internet access requirements.
  • Escalates problems as appropriate through direct supervisor, and/or IT resources.
  • Provides project support for corporate, regional and property initiatives.
  • Completes other reasonable duties as requested by leadership.

Requirements

Required:

  • High school diploma or GED; 2-4 years experience in the Information Technology or related professional area.

OR

  • 2-year degree from an accredited university in Business Administration, Information Technology, or related major; 2 years experience or related professional area.

Preferred:

  • Equivalent work experience, preferably within the hospitality industry at a major hotel chain, in like Information Technology positions.

Salary

$26.82 – $46.16 an hour

Benefits

  • Childcare
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Paid parental leave
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Parental leave
  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Vision insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Flexible spending account
  • Life insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Disability insurance
  • Commuter assistance