Assistant Revenue & Distribution Manager

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

Education