Revenue Manager - Chelsea, United Kingdom - H International Consultant

Description

Mission of the Role
Implement revenue management strategies and processes in our client hotels, to optimize and maximize their revenues. The Hotel grows the revenues of its clients by 10% to 25%.


Scope of the Role

• Implement revenue management operations, procedures, and best practices.
• Identify new revenue opportunities.
• Provide daily, weekly, and monthly reporting.
• Optimize and expand distribution partnerships.
• Act as an overall business development consultant for the hotel manager/owner.
• Challenge and influence hotels to improve service levels and operational standards.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with Clients
• Travel regularly to each hotel.
• Embed a revenue management culture.

Reports To

• Director and General Manager

Core Job Responsibilities & Duties

• Oversee revenue management and distribution strategy of the hotel and manage daytoday yield operations.
• Daily pickup analysis, strategy adjustments and reporting.
• Perform competitive benchmark studies and follow market trends.
• Create and maintain a 13month rolling demand calendar.
• Create and develop pricing strategies for hotel.
• Provide a weekly dynamic forecast of expected results, variances and budget comparisons.
• Manage and oversee strategy for all 3rd party distribution
• Responsible for assessing, analysing and pricing group business strategies.
• Analyze overall monthly hotel performance and provide a summary report with recommendations to improve longterm strategies.
• Ensure all related systems are configured correctly, validated and working to full capacity
• Oversee and audit the standards and operations of the reservations department.
• Ensure web site booking process is maintained uptodate and functional.
• Ensure hotel personnel is fully competent in the use of all systems
• Work in liaison with hotel sales and reservations departments as a team.
• Regularly check the input and the quality of data (segmentation, denials tracking, etc )points.
• Conduct quarterly property performance reviews and develop strategic and tactical action
• Responsible for best practice standards to include: competitor analysis; environmental scanning; market modelling; distribution yield management; business mix yield management; length of stay yield management; inventory availability by channel; pricingcontrol and new pricing concepts
• Evaluate the performance of distribution partners and contracted rates
• Reduce the cost of distribution by finding new less expensive means of delivering business.
• Prepare an outline for and support the annual revenue budget process.
• Inspire Hotel's HODs to further embed a revenue management culture.
• Any other reasonable requests made by management.

Personality

• Business Development DNA and commercial minded.
• 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 situations, understand environments and respond accordingly.
• Capable of prioritizing between revenuegenerating actions and timeconsuming tasks with low yield impact.
• Welldeveloped interpersonal, adaptive influencing and supervisory management skills
• The mentality of client service and taking responsibility beyond direct duties.
• High level of motivation, determination and commitment.

Experience & Qualifications
years of hands-on Hotel Revenue Management experience.

• A strong command of both written and spoken English is required; additional languages are an asset.
• Bachelors or master's degree in Hotel Management, Tourism or Economic Studies.
• Highly computer literate with a highlevel command of Excel.
• Knowledgeable of hotel technology: PMS Protel, Channel Manager, GDS, CRS, Extranets