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Revenue Manager
Hotel Okura Amsterdam is entering an exciting new phase, with a renewed room and suite product, a sharpened luxury positioning and a strong commercial ambition for the coming years. To support this transformation, we are looking for a commercially driven and analytically strong Revenue Manager with solid experience in luxury hospitality.
This is a key role in supporting the commercial repositioning of Hotel Okura Amsterdam. The Revenue Manager is responsible for optimising room revenue, profitability and market share through strategic pricing, inventory management, forecasting, budgeting and distribution control.
The ideal candidate combines strong analytical skills with commercial instinct and understands the dynamics of a five-star luxury hotel environment. Experience with SynXis, Duetto and Opera is required.
What will you do?
- Develop and implement strategies to optimize the hotel's total revenue and market share, with a focus on room and banquet revenue.
- Improve the business mix (e.g., pick-up, releases, no-shows).
- Maximize profitability per channel and direct bookings to the most profitable channels, working closely with the Marketing department.
- Analyze past business performance and gain insights into market dynamics to make informed decisions for the future.
- Prepare ongoing forecasts, including explanations for any changes.
- Analyze, monitor, and reduce distribution costs.
- Provide detailed information to the organization on past and future booking activities, demand changes, and business mix.
- Deliver detailed insights into the current booking situation.
- Develop short-, mid-, and long-term commercial strategies in collaboration with other team members.
- Review all RFPs for groups & events and discuss acceptance, pricing strategy, and distribution with the Director of Groups & Events and the Director of Sales.
- Yield management of room revenue in line with established targets.
- Analyze data and translate findings into concrete actions for commercial and operational departments.
- Set and achieve ambitious KPIs and report on results.
- Support further technical improvements to enhance efficiency within the commercial team.
- Assist with E-Commerce-related tasks, including conversion optimization, pre-arrival upselling, and meta-search optimization.
- Take functional ownership of various systems such as the Revenue Management System, CRS (including Channel Manager), Booking Engine, and Business Intelligence solutions.
- Work weekend shifts (once per quarter).
- Closely collaborate with other departments, including the Commercial Director, Sales, Groups & Events, Marketing & Communications, and Reservations.
Working Days & Hours
Preferably, you are available five days per week. Working days and hours are Monday to Friday, from 09:00 to 17:00.
What do we offer?
- Contract: 1-year contract with the possibility of extension – we want you to stay!
- Salary: We offer a competitive salary in line with the responsibilities of the role and your experience.
- Bonus: 1-month salary upon achieving your SMART goals
- Parking spot during work days in the hotel garage
- 8% holiday allowance (pro rata)
- 25 vacation days per year (pro rata)
- Compensation for national holidays
- Hospitality Collective Labor Agreement (Horeca CAO) applies
- General pension scheme for Hospitality and Catering
- General survivor’s pension
- Attractive family & friends rates for stays at Hotel Okura Amsterdam
- Annual staff discount (50%) in one of our restaurants
- Staff discount (20%) in our restaurants
- Travel allowance from 10 km (one way)
- After successfully completing the probation period, you will receive a complimentary overnight stay with breakfast for two, allowing you to experience the hotel as a guest!
Who are you?
- You work accurately and have strong analytical skills.
- You have 3-5 years of experience in revenue management.
- You have excellent communication skills and are skilled in building relationships.
- You have strong decision-making abilities and good judgment.
- You monitor progress and set measurable goals.
- You are results-oriented, precise, and innovative.
- You have a strategic vision and the ability to think long-term.
- You speak fluent English; fluency in Dutch is a plus.
- You have a luxury mindset.
- Experience in the hospitality industry is preferred but not required.
Are you interested in this role?
Would you like to be part of the experienced and enthusiastic team at Okura? Apply now via the button below!
Application Procedure
Below is a brief overview of our application process.
Introduction via phone
Once your application has been evaluated, we will call you for a brief chat and ask you a few questions about your application. We will also explain the next steps in the application process.
First interview
In this interview, we get to know each other better. We are pleased to share information about Hotel Okura Amsterdam and the position and there is room for you to ask your questions. Of course, we are also curious about you and whether we are a match!
Reference check
We will ask you to provide a reference from your previous employer(s) and we will ask them a few short questions.
Case
For this position, we ask you to prepare for a case. You will receive more information about the content of the case after the first interview. You can prepare the case from home and shall present it during the second interview.
Second interview
In this interview, we will dive a bit deeper into the position itself as we will ask you questions about your competencies and more detailed questions about your previous experience in relation to the position.
Offer
Congratulations on your new position! We much look forward to welcoming you as our new colleague soon! We will call you to shortly talk you through our offer and you have the opportunity to ask your questions. After that, you will receive the offer via email.
