GF Hotels & Resorts has an exciting opportunity in Chicago to join our growing company as an Area Director of Revenue Strategy. This is the perfect opportunity for a strategic and analytical hotel revenue management professional looking for an amazing company and portfolio to support. Apply today.

• Control room rates and availability in accordance with established guidelines to maximize occupancy and revenues. 
• Develop, communicate, and implement sales strategies, mix of business, channel management, pricing strategies, as well as reservations systems and related policies. 
• Prepare for and conduct weekly Revenue Management meetings involving rate and inventory strategies, transient/group pace, competitive business analysis, and financial forecasts. 
• Initiate short and long-term revenue forecasts and generate weekly and monthly critiques, identifying areas of opportunity and strategies to improve revenue and overall profitability. 
• Measure and analyze booking trends, pickup, no-shows, and sources of business. 
• Manage, produce, and monitor rate strategy tiers, booking pace by Market Segment, GDS, inventory, and monthly results. 
• Monitor and analyze the competition weekly through competitive shops, internet, and local demand impacts to identify selling strategies and emerging trends. 
• Work with different departments to maximize total yield management and action plans to optimize all revenue streams for the hotel. 
• Establish appropriate goals and benchmarks for each hotel in order to effectively measure performance. 
• Update all channels of distribution as needed with rate or inventory restrictions. 
• Establish and maintain relationships with OTA market managers. 
• Ensure property participation in brand promotions and marketing programs. 
• Participate/lead displacement analysis based on needs. 
• Responsible for the maintenance and implementation of any software programs which contribute to the management of revenue. 
• Achieves and exceeds goals including performance goals, budget goals, team goals, etc. 
• Communicates company initiatives, demand, and market analysis to hotels. 
• Serves as a liaison, when necessary, between property and regional/corporate systems support. 

• Prior experience with hotel revenue management.
• Multi-unit experience preferred.
• Diverse brand experience.
• Proactive personality.

GF Hotels and Resorts, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is a full-service hospitality ownership and management company that, through its operating affiliates, works on behalf of a variety of individual owners, real estate funds, and institutional lenders. GF believes in the entrepreneurial spirit with a promise of integrity and an overall passion for hospitality. 

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