Summary of Responsibilities:

The main responsibilities and tasks of this position are as listed below, but not limited to these:

• Support the reservations sales team and operations teams to ensure all key KPIs are met and maintained including conversion, abandoned call rate and quality assurance.
• Ensure travel agency commissions, reservations sales conditions, profile tracking and guest recognition is checked, completed and updated accordingly.
• Maintain accuracy of arrivals including billing, VIP status and other guest preferences.
• Maintain high level of performance within the reservations guest experience, including the support for the reservations and operations team.
• Ensure that a “RevPRO culture” is spread in the hotel, through regular liaison with operational and call centre teams.
• Manage rooming lists, corporate bookings, and crew blocks as required.

The Assistant Food and Beverage Sales Manager is responsible for working to achieve the strategic goals of the hotel, specifically in Food and Beverage outlets sales. Sales segments can be sub-categorized into corporate, social events, weddings, conference services and tours / wholesale. This position is also responsible to follow through on all matters pertaining to F&B events and functions in the hotel as well as the servicing of conference groups.

Primary Responsibilities

Achieves Both Individual and Team Revenue and Profit Goals as Per Budget and Forecast

• Achieves sales objectives and measureable goals set by management in terms of revenue as well as other financial KPIs based on budget.
• Proactive development of new businesses for key accounts and special events, working closely with the room sales and event sales team.
• Establishes close working relationships with existing guests.
• Understands the needs of the ever-changing market.
• Strong conversion in corporate / wedding enquiries.
• Presents hotel’s products and offerings to guest.
• Efficient negotiation and upselling to maximize revenue.
• Ability to innovate with the hotel offerings and creative selling for both outlets and banquet venues.

Focuses on Meeting Planner and Guest Experience

• Ensures the accuracy of bookings, event requirement and restaurant event order at all times.
• Familiarises with the house system. (Opera, Social Tables, Resdiary)
• Timeliness in responding to enquiries from various platforms.
• Uses a Heartist® approach – make the guests Feel Welcome, Feel Heart-warmed, Feel Incredible, and Belong.
• Focuses on the client experience and is present pre and post events.

Delivery of a Successful Event

• Effective communication among colleagues (inter departments) in a timely manner.
• Evaluates guest satisfaction and encourages continuous work improvement.
• Maintains a good working relationship with external suppliers.

Contributing to the Hotel Goal

• Cross selling of hotel guest rooms, spas, florist and any revenue generating sources to support the hotel’s achievement of its overall revenue goal.
• Active participation in departmental meetings and trainings.
• Identifies and proposes improvement on quality of Events and F&B experiences where necessary.
• Contributes to the hotel’s CSR efforts by supporting the Planet 21 program.
• Upholds the Accor Values in the work nature, increasing stakeholders’ interest.

Senior Sales Manager, Reactive

Summary of Responsibilities:

• To manage and ensure timely response to assigned sales leads
• Strong conversion in corporate sales leads
• Achieve sales goals set by management
• Conduct sales activities such as follow up call and hotel site inspection
• Responsible for new bookings and managing existing business blocks in Opera
• Effective communication with conference & event services team to ensure smooth execution of events
• To handle any other duty/projects assigned by Director of Sales and/or Senior Director of Sales

ABOUT THIS JOB  

At NielsenIQ, our obsession in helping our clients to grow through a comprehensive understanding of consumer behavior is what motivates us. Leveraging on the ongoing innovation in technology, our work includes, but not limited to, helping our clients set growth strategies, determining what products or services ultimately get into the markets and driving their marketing and trade execution. 

The Associate Director will lead a dynamic team of junior and mid-level researchers (comprising managers and executives) to manage and execute market research studies for our local and global clients. 

He/she should be recognized as having an expertise in quantitative market research. Well-versed and hands-on experience across all research solutions and statistical modelling techniques including (but not limiting to) brand equity/ health studies, shopper or U&A studies, segmentation, concept/product tests, customer experience and satisfaction studies. 

The position of Associate Director will be offered based on the years of experience and seniority of the candidate.  

Responsibilities 

As an Associate Director for Consumer Insights, your responsibilities and key expectations will include: 

Business Focus 

• Be accountable for the team's financial KPIs (both revenue and margin); continuously monitor actual versus budgeted performance and make interventions if needed. 

• Be an active business developer in generating opportunities with both new and existing clients. 

• Fluency in financial processes and in compliance with Nielsen IQ financial strategy and KPIs. 

• Be current with latest developments in market research and constantly suggest refinements to current processes and approaches. 

 Client Management

• Provide ideas and thoughtful insights into new ideas and initiatives for clients, showing competency, mastery and consultative skill. 

• Lead and promote strategic conversations and meetings with clients, which result in business opportunities. 

• Further foster strategic clients’ relationship with aim to provide impactful solutions to clients’ business issues. 

• Drive overall client satisfaction to achieve high Net Promoter Score (NPS). 

Insights Delivery

• Familiar with the end-to-end process of the market research process. 

• Translate data to insights, create compelling stories and powerful synthesis of findings to drive high impact business decisions through insightful and actionable recommendations. 

• Actively drive issue-based analyses, build effective analytical presentations and consultative storytelling to clients and present to the clients including C-suite management in a straight-forward way. 

 Team Management 

• Inspiring the team and building good team culture with active engagement in driving team spirit. 

• Actively seek opportunities to create team diversity in background, opinion, and mindset. 

• Establish an open culture in which team members are challenged but treated with respect and rewarded as appropriate. 

• Good team resource management leading to on time delivery & meeting quality expectations. 

• Assess, manage and develop talents including setting performance objectives and provide on-going feedback. 

GNOC Network Specialist/Associate – Global Operations

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.   While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.   

The Opportunity:

If you think you could support Visa as an GNOC Network Specialist/Associate we want to hear from you – together, let’s make Visa a great place to work.

The Work itself:

As a member of Global Network Operations Centre (GNOC) team, the Associate/Specialist is the in-shift detection, notification and escalation point for network issues. They have the primary responsibility for managing and responding to Network, Hardware and external client and circuit events which may result in impaired connectivity to our clients and internal business. The position requires an in-depth understanding of how logical and physical connectivity issues can affect transaction quality of Visa Client. You will be able to explore many latest technologies that support the Visa Operations, such as Cloud, SASI Network, many other Payment products, and services.

Essential Functions

The Skills You Bring:

• Understanding of customer topology and potential work-around scenarios to mitigate client impact.
• Modify and create work instructions or Recipes to prepare for similar impacting events and allow for a quicker response. Constantly review work instructions for accuracy and solicit improvements through second level support groups.   
• Ability to communicate effectively throughout the incident management process to ensure that all communications are timely and accurate, as per documented process.
• Follow documented support procedures, managing each issue through resolution or turnover in order to maintain established service levels.
• Track update and resolve all assigned incidents, changes and problem reports in the incident management system, ensuring that documentation is thorough, accurate and meets a standard of high quality.
• Use sound judgment in determining incident priorities and enlisting support of other internal groups to prevent any compromise to Visa business or client service level agreements. Proper escalation to support groups based on criticality and exposure.
• In-depth understanding of all Visa proprietary as well as industry standard tools to support monitoring and response for client and Visa brand issues.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.