Job Title: Pricing & Strategy Analyst                             

Department: Revenue

Job Level: 5           

Position of Line Manager: Head of Commercial Pricing and Analytics 

Overall Job Purpose

• The primary aim of this role is to provide commercial analysis and support to the Revenue Team
• Commercial outlook with ability to quickly identify areas of interest/concern form large data sets, working autonomously to formulate decision prior to cascading to wider audience
• Key focus will be on delivering a RevPAR growth with an aim to over deliver planned revenue targets and gain competitive advantage
• Support the Head of Commercial Pricing and Analytics with project work

Responsibilities:

• Maintain Travelodge’s pricing structure and policy across all systems
• Develop and manage a suite of reports to enable the Revenue Team to make faster commercial decisions
• On-going measurement, and monitoring to ensure IDeaS is being optimised
• Review data to identify business trends and identify opportunities
• Measure the impact of major price changes within each market and provide analysis for the Director of Revenue and Area Revenue Managers
• Provide weekly analysis and reporting
• Production of the revenue performance monthly balanced scorecard
• Provide ad hoc reporting as required
• Support the Head if Pricing Strategy with project work
• Responsible for promotional rates and allocations, e.g. Friends & Family
• Support team to cover holiday, sickness and project work as required

Stakeholders:

Internal: Head of Pricing Strategy, Revenue Managers, Area Revenue Managers, Inventory Managers, Director of Revenue, Hotel Booking Support Team

External: IDeaS Teams (ROA & Client Relationship Manager)

Person Specification: Skills, Knowledge & Qualifications

Essential:

• Good commercial acumen
• Ability to analyse data and identify trends, turning this into commercial actions
• Educated to at least degree level
• Strong Excel skills

• Very detail orientated
• Highly numerate
• Ability to work in a high pressure environment
• Excellent prioritisation and organisation skills
• Flexible and able to embrace change to meet the varying needs of the business
• Proactive, tenacious, self-motivated, enthusiastic, personable and energetic
• Effective communication skills

   

  Desirable:

• Experience of IDeaS RMS an advantage
• Previous experience with report building and database querying an advantage (e.g. Visual Basic, SQL, Access, SAS etc)
• Educated to at least degree level in a numerical subject

Values to be demonstrated at all times in the role

CARE ABOUT PEOPLE

DRIVE FOR RESULTS