Role Purpose
Provide analytical and tactical support to New Hotel Opening team to ensure effective revenue management setup and rampup. Manage and execute a variety of specific revenue management related projects and processes to support targeted revenue growth for upcoming new hotels. Act as hotel support coverage in the absence of the Regional Revenue Manager(s) as needed.
Key Accountabilities
- Provide strategic support for new hotels under the Revenue Management for Hire (RMH) service model.
- Support the hotel in Commercial strategies for successful opening of the hotel
- Support the new and upcoming hotels with system setup as per IHG standards
- Assist assigned team in hotel Revenue Management calls as needed.
- Create ad-hoc reports as needed for hotel support; act as a backup for running daily, weekly and monthly reports.
- Create recap template for assigned team on a rotating basis.
- Work with Revenue Managers on assigned teams to provide administrative support as needed.
Key Skills & Experiences
Education –
Degree in Business, Hospitality Management, Marketing or similar preferred or equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.
Experience –
Typically 3-5 years hotel revenue management, reservations or operations experience.
Technical Skills and Knowledge –
- Demonstrated strong PC skills including software packages (i.e. Access, SQL, Excel, Word, Power Point, E-mail, Adobe etc.) as well as web-based applications.
- Demonstrated math skills for the purpose of checking figures for accuracy.
- Demonstrated effective oral and written communication skills, and the ability to draft and compile documents for the purpose of conveying information to internal and external customers, or providing information via written reports or correspondence.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze database information for the purpose of accurately tracking or maintaining data and reporting trends or inconsistencies.
- Demonstrated organizational skills and strong attention to detail in order to maintain accuracy of reporting data. Demonstrated ability to handle multiple assignments and projects accurately.
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills for the purpose of maintaining the daily flow of office work, answering questions, and resolving issues.
- Strong organizational and work coordinating skills to handle multiple assignments and projects.
- Prior hotel operations experience preferred.
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