Assistant Manager, Development Planning and Feasibility

**Additional Information**
**Job Number**25142901
**Job Category**Development & Feasibility
**Location**Singapore Regional Office, 2 Harbourfront Place #06-08, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 098499
**Schedule**Full Time
**Located Remotely?**N
**Position Type** Management

**JOB SUMMARY**

The Marriott Development Planning and Feasibility function in Asia Pacific Excluding China (“**APEC**”) is responsible for hotel underwriting, brand strategy, and business intelligence to support hotel development, conversion, and renovation/repositioning opportunities for all Marriott lodging products in APEC. These market and economic evaluations are instrumental to achieving Marriott’s expansion goals in new markets and important to the overall, long-range growth strategy of the Company.

The position is to be based in Singapore.

**CANDIDATE PROFILE**

**Education and Experience**

Degree in Hospitality Management, Real Estate, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.

**2-5 years of work experience** in one or more of the following areas:

- Hotel consulting, development planning, or feasibility studies
- Real estate consulting, development or investment/asset management, with experience in hospitality projects
- Hotel revenue management, finance, or other related business functions

**Skills and Competencies**
- Good knowledge of the hotel industry, specifically of hotel brands and their market positioning.
- Familiarity with hotel markets in Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and Korea is highly advantageous.
- Good understanding of the real estate industry, including hotel valuation and investment analysis.
- Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills with the ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Strong Excel and financial modeling, written and verbal presentation skills.
- Ability to effectively persuade and support a position in a professional manner.
- Executive presence with the ability to work with and present to all levels of the organization.
- Excellent critical thinking, sound judgment, and strong business acumen.
- Keen attention-to-detail, high degree of initiative and resourcefulness, as well as a service-oriented attitude.
- Strong interpersonal and organizational skills; ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities.
- Strong command of English language is required; fluency in Asian languages is preferred.
- Some travel required.

**CORE WORK ACTIVITIES**

**Hotel Underwriting**
- Conduct market research and competitive assessment through conducting field work, site inspection and interviews.
- Formulate brand & facilities program recommendations.
- Prepare financial projections.
- Author feasibility reports.
- Conduct renovation and repositioning analyses for existing hotels.

**Brand Strategy**
- Customize responses to RFPs.
- Support new brand launch in APEC, conduct competitive landscape research and provide brand positioning recommendations.

**Business Intelligence**
- Set development strategy for new brands/new markets.
- Analyze post-opening hotel performance.
- Track competition by market and company.
- Gather owner and real estate intelligence.

**MANAGEMENT COMPETENCIES**

**Leadership**
- **Communication** - Conveys information and ideas in a convincing and engaging manner through a variety of methods.
- **Leading Through Vision and Values** - Keeps the organization's vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action.
- **Managing Change**:

- Initiates and/or manages the change process and energizes it on an ongoing basis, taking steps to remove barriers or accelerate its pace; serves as role model for how to handle change by maintaining composure and performance level under pressure or when experiencing challenges.
- **Problem Solving and Decision Making**:

- Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities; obtains and compares information from different sources to draw conclusions, develops and evaluates alternatives and solutions, solves problems, and chooses a course of action.
- **Professional Demeanor**:

- Exhibits behavioral styles that convey confidence and command respect from others; makes a good first impression and represents the company in alignment with its values.
- **Strategy Development**:

- Develops business plans by exploring and systematically evaluating opportunities with the greatest potential for producing positive results; ensures successful preparation and execution of business plans through effective planning, organizing, and on-going evaluation processes.

**Managing Execution**
- **Strategy Execution**:

- Ensures successful execution across of business plans designed to maximize stakeholder satisfaction, and the company’s profitability and market share through effective planning, organizing, and on-going evaluation processes.
- **Driving for Results**:

- Sets high standar