Job Responsibilities:
- Formulate and execute segment-specific strategies to optimize hotel demand across various periods.
- Stay updated on emerging channels, including social media, and devise strategies to capitalize on opportunities or mitigate risks.
- Implement channel shift strategies based on distribution cost, Length of Stay, Price elasticity, and Ancillary revenues.
- Disseminate best practices in channel distribution management to operating teams, ensuring regular checks on channel parity.
- Analyze reports, provide assessments to operational teams, and adhere to agreed timelines.
- Champion all Central Reservations Systems (CRS), actively participating in implementation and integration processes.
- Enforce distribution management procedures to maintain compliance with established standards.
- Ensure Property Management System (PMS) compliance with PPHG standards, covering Rate Code, Rate description, Package elements, Market Segmentation, Yield Class, Guest profile, reservation quality, and Reservation turn away recording.
- Collaborate closely with Sales and Revenue Departments to achieve optimal yield through reputable Third-Party Intermediaries.
- Maintain and analyze Revenue by Room type, ensuring appropriate room type sales through various channels per Brand or Hotel product.
- Monitor group and transient business thresholds, aligning with selling strategies outlined in Budget & Forecast.
- Track all definite and tentative group bookings in Opera S&C, adjusting selling and rate strategies based on demand and yield.
Requirements:
- Minimum of 3 years' experience in a supervisory/management position in Channel Distribution or Revenue Management.
- Proficient in articulating electronic distribution channels within the hospitality industry.
- Familiarity with Revenue or Channel tools.
- Well-versed in Forecasting and Market Segmentation reports.
