Revenue Manager - Individual Contributor

JOB SUMMARY
Maintains the transient rooms inventory for the hotel(s) and responsible for maximizing transient revenue. The Revenue Manager releases group rooms back into general inventory and ensures clean booking windows for customers. The position recommends pricing and positioning of cluster properties. In addition, the position oversees the inventory management system to verify appropriateness of agreed upon selling strategies.
1. Analyzing and Reporting Revenue Management Data
- Compiles information, analyzes and monitors actual sales against projected sales.
- Identifies the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
- Analyzes information and evaluates results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Generates and provides accurate and timely results in the form of reports, presentations, etc.
- Maintains accurate reservation system information.
- Analyzes period end and other available systems data to identify trends, future need periods and obstacles to achieving goals.
- Assists with account diagnostics process and validates conclusions.
2. Executing Revenue Management Projects and Strategy
- Updates market knowledge and aligns strategies and approaches accordingly.
- Achieves and exceeds goals including performance goals, budget goals, team goals, etc.
- Establishes long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
- Takes a predetermined strategy and drives the execution of that strategy.
- Explores opportunities that drive profit, create value for clients, and encourage innovation; challenges existing processes/systems/products to make improvements.
- Provides revenue management functional expertise to cluster general managers, leadership teams and market sales leaders.
- Ensures that sales strategies and rate restrictions are communicated, implemented and modified as market conditions fluctuate.
- Manages rooms inventory to maximize cluster rooms revenue.
- Supports cluster selling initiatives by working with all reservation centers.
- Uses reservations system and demand forecasting systems to determine, implement and control selling strategies.
- Checks distribution channels for hotel positioning, information accuracy and competitor positioning.
- Communicates brand initiatives, demand and market analysis to hotels/clusters/franchise partners/owners.
- Understands and communicates the value of the brand name as it relates to franchise partnerships and revenue management opportunities.
3. More details will be discussed during interview