Revenue and Reservation Manager at a Highly Rated Ultra-Luxury Hotel

FlexEdge – Our client, a highly rated ultra-luxury hotel in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja is recruiting a suitable, qualified and well experienced candidate to fill this position:

Job Title: Revenue and Reservation Manager

Location: FCT, Abuja

Position Objective
The objective for the Revenue/Reservation Manager position is to:

• Work closely with the General Manager, Sales & Marketing and Front Office manager to formulate forecasts and apply revenue management techniques for the hotel revenue generation that results in the achievement of business revenue objectives
• Responsible for development and management of revenue/yield strategies including pricing, demand analysis, budgeting, forecasting, financial planning as well as inventory management.

Role / Responsibilities

• Accountable for price positioning, preparation of forecasts, business evaluation, inventory management analysis, acting as the market demand supply expert
• Support the General, Director of Sales and Front Office, identifying future opportunities and effectively communicating to the Sales department
• Organize lead selling, inventory strategy meetings with the GM Sales team, survey the market adjust rates on a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly basis.
• Survey competition read reports that allow profitable yield management in all available distribution channels reservation sources: onsite, third-party reservation providers, websites etc
• Manage the Hotels reservations department by Implementing revenue and reservations management operations, procedures and best practices
• Independently implement appropriate hotel inventory distribution strategy; maintains accurate rates and inventory allotments in the provided applications/systems in a timely manner to promote rate parity throughout all booking channels
• Develop measurement techniques to evaluate the effectiveness of revenue Management strategies and decisions.
• Complete stated periodic forecast for the Hotel Operations Team.
• Develops near and long term top-line rooms revenue hotel forecasts
• Perform daily review and analysis of inventory and rates, then identify and implement appropriate revenue strategies based up on those daily analyses.
• Maintain high level knowledge about competition and their product offerings
• Analyse and present accurate picture of market trends, demand and conditions
• Coordinate various activities to further enhance revenue potential
• Assist in creating and developing marketable packages and promotions
• Passing your expertise on to your team; enabling them to acquire greater autonomy.

Qualities and Skills Required

• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to perform critical analysis, budget and solid understanding of forecasting
• Understands revenue maximization and practice and yield management/pricing
• Special ability to take initiative and get creative in resolving challenges
• Detail oriented
• Excellent time management
• Ability and Knack to prioritize work

Professional / Educational Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Hotel Management/ Tourism or Business/ Economic related field
• A minimum of 3-4 years revenue / reservations management experience in hotel environment or related business operations
• Experience in Central reservations, GDS and internet distribution systems.
• Highly proficient in the use of the following:
  • Hospitality software (micros, Opera, Fidelio etc.)
  • Microsoft Office (MS Excel, Word, Power Point)

Deadline: 4th July 2017.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV’s to: Recruitment@flexedge.com.ng with “RRM-HOSP-FCT” as subject of the mail.

Note

• Failure to use code as subject of the mail automatically disqualifies candidate
• Only qualified candidates will be contacted.