Revenue Manager

About the role

JW Marriott is hiring a full-time Revenue Manager for its Palm West Beach property in Dubai. The role maintains the transient rooms inventory, maximizes transient revenue, releases group rooms back into general inventory and keeps booking windows clear. It also recommends pricing and positioning for cluster properties and oversees the inventory management system to check that agreed selling strategies are appropriate.

Key responsibilities

• Analyze and report revenue management data: compare actual sales with projections, identify trends and future demand periods, and generate periodic updates on the transient segment
• Manage rooms inventory to maximize cluster room revenue and use reservations and demand forecasting systems to control selling strategies
• Conduct sales strategy analysis, prepare meeting agendas and brief executives, peers and subordinates on relevant information
• Ensure hotel strategies conform to brand philosophy, communicate brand initiatives and demand analysis to hotels, clusters and franchise partners, and protect brand equity
• Keep rate restrictions and sales strategies aligned with market conditions, check distribution channels and competitor positioning, and run revenue tests
• Provide revenue management expertise to cluster general managers and market sales leaders, and liaise with regional and corporate systems support

Required profile

• 2-year degree in Business Administration, Finance and Accounting, Economics, Hotel and Restaurant Management or a related field, with 3 years of experience in revenue management, sales and marketing or a related area
• OR a 4-year bachelor's degree in one of those fields with 1 year of experience in revenue management, sales and marketing or a related area