Senior Group Strategy Manager

• Provides business evaluation functional expertise to market sales leaders
• Responds to leads from Sales
• Provides targeted and timely communication of results, achievements and challenges to the stakeholders
• Provides recommendations to improve effectiveness of revenue management processes
• Communicates brand initiatives, demand and market analysis to hotels/clusters/franchise partners/owners
• Understands and communicates the value of the brand name as it relates to franchise partnerships and revenue management opportunities
• Promotes and protects brand equity
• Participates in quarterly regional reviews
• Understands and accurately represents individual property sales needs
• Develops and manages short and long term group and catering strategy for the property
• Takes a predetermined strategy and drives the execution of that strategy
• Demonstrates knowledge of job-relevant issues, products, systems, and processes
• Observes, receives, and otherwise obtains information from all relevant sources
• Works with other people to gather the information necessary to manage projects, achieve goals, and resolve problems
• Performs displacement analysis
• Determines pricing options for leads – group, transient and catering
• Conducts need date evaluations and communicates information to Market Strategy and Revenue Analysis
• Conducts Diary Audit
• Creates group and catering forecasts for the property
• Enters, transcribes, records, stores, or maintains information in written or electronic form
• Identifies the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts
• Generates and provides accurate and timely results in the form of reports, presentations, etc.
• Analyzes information, identifies current and potential problems and proposes solutions
• Submits reports in a timely manner, ensuring delivery deadlines
• Develops constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintains them over time
• Develops and manages internal key stakeholder relationships
• Informs and/or updates the executives, the peers and the subordinates on relevant information in a timely manner

• 2-year degree from an accredited university in Business Administration, Finance and Accounting, Economics, Hotel and Restaurant Management, or related major
• 2 years experience in the revenue management, sales and marketing, or related professional area
• 4-year bachelor's degree from an accredited university in Business Administration, Finance and Accounting, Economics, Hotel and Restaurant Management, or related major

Bonus Eligible