RESPONSIBILITIES
Pricing, availability and market segment management
- Effective use of forecasting tools for guest rooms and meeting rooms availability control and pricing
- Maintain a consistent selling strategy across the Central Reservation system (CRS), Property Management System (PMS) and third-party online systems, ensuring maximum use of availability controls in all systems
- Apply an appropriate overbooking policy and educate team to accept through qualified bookings
- Monitor the global, local and environmental issues impacting your city and hotel
- Assist hotel management in the revenue decisions by highlighting opportunities
- Check competitor strategy on a regular basis, reviewing pricing and their availability
- Analyze production statistics and track information to identify potential business and market trends
- Identify potential new opportunities to improve revenue performance
- Assist hotels to maintain and change room rates/inventory when required
- Provide strategic analysis and input to maximize yield
Maintenance of systems and procedures
- Ensure accuracy of all reservations and other data in the PMS
- Conduct quality control checks in PMS to ensure data accuracy
- Ensure that all rates are loaded by accurate completion of rate databases
- Monitor automated revenue management system, IDeaS, decisions, interpret its forecast and decisions
Develop revenue team skill set
- Actively develop team members’ skills and performance through coaching and training.
- Ensure communications meetings are held within the reservations manager and their team.
- Implement an effective training plan with the team to develop personnel to their full potential.
- Ensure that training is planned, completed and recorded.
- Conduct performance reviews with team members as means of motivation and development.
- Communicate with the Regional Revenue Director on all key developments of the department.
Developing OTA Partnerships
- Manage Online Travel Agency accounts ensuring their compliance with M&C’s E-commerce strategy
- Ensure that every OTA website displays correct information at all times
- Manage approved OTA partners Internet listings
- Ensure hotels comply with the company’s terms and conditions regarding internet distribution strategies
- Audit hotels compliance
- Produce channel performance reports on a monthly basis
- Produce regular SWOT analysis of costs, highlighting any threats and opportunities
- Ensure Millennium and Copthorne are positioned on the first page of 50% of all TPI websites
- Use up-to-date methods and appropriate procedures with regards to technologies and costs
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with key clients
- Ensure the OTA website adhere to the best rate
Any other duties or tasks to be assigned from time to time based on business needs.
CRITICAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Advanced understanding of revenue management and pricing practices.
- Strong analytical skills. Ability to identify trends through analytics and turn data into actionable information.
- Ability to translate complexity into simple actional insights. Effectively communicate insights and align stakeholders on insights and recommended actions.
- Build and lead effective teams, identify and develop talent, be a mentor.
- Entrepreneurial skills and thought processes are highly desirable. Must be willing to push boundaries in seeking and implementing new ideas and processes that have a demonstrable impact on operating income
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE
- Minimum 5-8 years' experience in revenue management leadership roles.
- Understanding of business culture is a benefit. Sensitive to diversity, with awareness about geographical, cultural, linguistic, legal, financial, and regulatory differences present in an international environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, marketing, or strategy.
- Prior experience in the hospitality industry especially in sales and account management/ yield management/ distribution channel management would be advantageous
- Team player, analytical, organized, attention to detail