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
ATTENTION TO DETAIL