Job Summary
To Assist the manager in ensuring revenue management and distribution of the hotels and manage day to day yield operations.
Job Responsibilities 1
- Assist the manager in Optimizing and expanding distribution partnerships.
- Provide daily, weekly, and monthly reporting to the manager.
- Support the manager in influencing the hotels to improve service level and operational standards.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with levels of staff at the client hotels.
- Support the manager with data to help in creating and develop pricing strategies in conjunction with the individuality of each hotel.
- Provide weekly dynamic forecast of expected results, variances, and budget comparisons.
- Analyze room authorizations, rates and restrictions.
- Ascertain function space authorizations, restrictions and rental.
- Check rooms inventory to maximize cluster rooms revenue.
- Maintain the transient rooms inventory for the hotels and responsible for maximizing transient revenue.
- Release group rooms back into general inventory and ensure clean booking windows for customers
- Assist in ensuring that the hotels sales strategies are effectively implemented in the reservation system and the inventory system.
- Prepare sales strategy critique.
Job Responsibilities 2
- Monitor transient and group inventory daily to ensure straight-line availability and maximization of revenue potential for all brands.
- Support cluster selling initiatives by working with all reservation centers.
- Use reservations system and demand forecasting systems to determine, implement and control selling strategies.
- Make use of property diagnostic processes (PDP) are used to maximize revenue and profits.
- Understand the working relationship between sales, reservations and property management systems.
- Participate in periodic regional reviews
- Promote and protect brand equity.
- Achieve and exceed goals including performance goals, budget goals, team goals, etc.
- Attend meetings to plan, organize, prioritize, coordinate and manage activities and solutions.
- Assist in establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
- Demonstrate knowledge of job-relevant issues, products, systems, and processes.
Additional Responsibilities 3 Job Knowledge & Skills • Strong sense of need for achievement of goals and success.
• Sound ability and knowledge to develop standards of operations and strategic processes
• Good analytical and numeric skills for fast data crunching.
• Ability to work under own initiative in a highly pressured environment.
• Good listening skills and the ability to anticipate business needs.
• Able to develop relationships with 3rd parties and the hotel teams.
• Capacity to read situation, understand environments and respond accordingly
• Capable of prioritizing between revenue generating actions and time-consuming tasks with low yield impact.
• Well-developed interpersonal, adaptive influencing and supervisory management skills
• Willingness to travel and ability to interact professionally with other cultures
• Mentality of client service and taking responsibility beyond direct duties.
• High level of motivation, determination and commitment.
• ERP knowledge preferably SAP functional skills are a requirement to be successful in this role.
Job Experience Minimum 8 years of experience (required)
Minimum 4 years of supervisory experience (required)
Minimum 2 year in GCC (preferred)
Competencies Collaboration
Accountability
Resilience
Quality
Leadership
Brand Engagement L3
Hotel Management Standards and Procedures L3
Group Sales L3
Product/Service Management L3
Reservation Management L3
Education Bachelor's Degree
