Assistant Revenue and E-Commerce Manager
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Dubai, AE
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelors degree in Hospitality Business Marketing Finance or related field
- 35 years of experience in hotel revenue management reservations or e-commerce
- Strong knowledge of PMS RMS CRS channel managers and OTAs
- Solid analytical and forecasting skills with understanding of pricing and yield strategies
- Familiarity with digital distribution website performance and online sales channels
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across departments
- Detail-oriented organized and able to work in a fast-paced environment
Full description
How does your working day look like
- Manage the availability of rooms against demand and maximize the property occupancy by applying yield management and e-commerce strategies to elevate the hotel business via direct and indirect channels to ensure optimal business mix driving RevPAR and Direct Digital goals through effective yielding and well-executed strategies and campaigns.
- Monitor reservations and revenue systems and ensure accurate and up-to-date availability rates and inventory across all channels.
- Develops Action Plans to reach daily / monthly / yearly KPIs.
- Completes all rooms forecasting to accurately project demand and pick up for groups and transient both short and long term.
- Maintains records pertaining to market segments transient pace numbers forecasts and other rooms data.
- Coordinate updates/stay restrictions or rate changes to reflect the hotel selling strategy in response to the market demand.
- Records competitive set pricing and yield strategies and completes analysis on the market and its opportunities based upon the competition and previous history.
- Makes sure rate leakages are handled and solved in a timely manner. Use Fornova system to resolve all the rate leakages for all connected partners.
- Develop and implement strategies to optimize room revenue and occupancy levels.
- Analyse market trends competitor pricing and demand patterns to make informed decisions in collaboration with Cluster Director of Revenue Management.
- Monitor and adjust room rates based on market conditions and demand fluctuations in collaboration with Cluster Director of Revenue Management.
- Makes sure rate plans are correctly indexed / loaded and distributed to all channels
- Utilize revenue management tools and systems to forecast demand and maximize revenue potential.
- Analyse data to identify trends opportunities and areas for improvement.
- Provide insights and recommendations to the management team based on analysis.
- Group rate evaluation of high demand exhibitions.
- Prepares the weekly RevMax meetings and ensures completion of slides by all allied departments.
In collaboration with appointed Agency and Regional E-Commerce Team:
- Measure/evaluates hotel performance SEO SEM and PPC Campaigns
- Continuously optimize content (across all languages) - Ensure efficient use of researched keywords and recommends data-driven amends
- Review and monitor the content and search engine ranking of competitors websites and react appropriately to maintain competitiveness.