Revenue Management / Pricing and Distribution
- To optimise forecasting through the use of Business Intelligence and Revenue Management applications (IDeaS software where available).
- To ensure correct inventory controls are in place for FIT / Group and for the hotel as a whole.
- To provide strategic, critical input for the weekly yield meeting.
- To monitor and constantly adapt pricing strategies in the context of competitor strategies and market fluctuations.
Technical
- To be familiar with the technical set up of the local Cognos solution, general dataflow, database structure and monthly extract procedure.
- To be familiar with the escalation procedure in case of support issues with the local Cognos solution.
- To be familiar with the technical set up for all tools including revenue management system (where available) used throughout the strategic marketing process.
Marketing and Business Intelligence
- To actively participate in the formulation and submission of the annual business plan.
- To provide the hotel Marketing Team with business intelligence based on Cognos data mining solutions and secondary resources (PMS reports).
- To ensure the accuracy and validity of the data presented in the Cognos.
- To provide the hotel with external market intelligence using tools such as Competitive Intelligence, Rate View / Phaser, Hotelbenchmark.com, access to a Global Distribution System (i.e. Gallileo Focalpoint / MySabre), Internet web sites and corporate resources.
