Hotel Revenue & Ops Associate
Posted 1 day 22 hours ago by Michael Page (UK)
Our client acquires, manages and operates high grade hospitality assets (€100-€500m hotels) in key cities around Europe. They're committed to delivering outstanding experiences for their customers and expanding their portfolio through organic growth in key locations. They are a specialist investor with a long-term view and globally recognised (Top 5) institutional backing.
Job DescriptionThis role manages detailed, task-driven processes such as data collection and analysis, presentation preparation, and post-meeting follow-up on a monthly and quarterly basis. On the commercial side, it oversees forecast coordination, reporting cycles, and strategic initiatives-adding value through report building, data validation, commentary drafting, and action tracking. Operationally, it supports guest satisfaction, service delivery, and cost optimisation, playing a key role in turning strategy into results.
General / Cross-functional
- Own the full cycle for monthly business reviews, quarterly commercial deep dives, and restaurant & bar performance reviews-managing timelines, inputs, data consolidation, presentation decks, commentary drafts, and presentation quality
- Produce concise pre-meeting summaries for leadership, visualising key performance trends, cost risks, and opportunity areas
- Develop reporting and presentations for internal and external purposes, including board meetings, with a focus on continuous improvement
- Take structured meeting notes and maintain a central action tracker, recording agreed actions, deadlines, and responsible parties
- Escalate overdue or blocked actions to relevant department heads
Commercial
- Manage the master forecast tracker: gather hotel inputs, validate formulas and comments, align deadlines, and ensure timely upload to Fairmas
- Coordinate with hotel teams to ensure commentary meets expectations-clearly explaining variances ("why and what") before submission
- Perform variance analysis across key metrics (e.g. YoY, budget, forecast, STR, guest mix, segment performance), highlighting anomalies and recommending corrections
- Identify untapped revenue opportunities by analysing STR data, channel performance, up-selling results, and segment mix-suggesting targeted actions
- Integrate OKR reporting into monthly and quarterly cycles by updating dashboards and reports
- Translate commercial strategies into operational actions, linking guest satisfaction, service quality, cost controls, and up-selling performance
- Liaise with hotel-based commercial leads to gather and refine inputs for planning, reporting, and performance tracking
Operations
- Support hotel openings and renovations by tracking milestones and dependencies
- Evaluate up-selling performance using POS and pre-arrival data, premium room sales, and F&B metrics-recommending revised incentive structures
- Assist in implementing a hotel compliance framework, including a tracker and cyclical follow-up checks
- Collaborate on solutions to audit findings, guest experience gaps, and service delivery risks
- Monitor operational KPIs with commercial impact (e.g. service scores, guest feedback, audit compliance) and integrate into portfolio reporting
- Liaise with hotel-based operational leads to gather and refine inputs for planning and performance tracking
- Support roll-out of LQA across the portfolio-developing analysis and optimisation strategies
- Work with the Sustainability team and Head of Operations to implement environmental strategies and ensure hotel teams follow guidance
System & Data Management
- Pull, clean, and consolidate data from Opera, BI tools, Excel trackers, and other relevant sources
- Maintain central dashboards, trackers, and tools for portfolio performance, commercial delivery, and forecast accuracy
- Identify and implement improvements to reporting processes and system outputs
- Build and test new tools, dashboards, or analysis frameworks-ensuring scaleability and usability
- Support light implementation of automation or AI tools for reporting and insight generation, including vendor testing, AI commentary drafts, and Excel macros
The successful Hotel Revenue & Ops Associate should have:
- 4-6 years' work experience (ideally including pre-covid), in commercial or operational support roles at Hotels, Area or Cluster level
- Revenue management or commercial analysis (Hotels) background with operational exposure preferred
- Understanding of hotel P&L structure and key performance metrics essential
- Advanced Excel and strong PowerPoint skills
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities with strong organisational skills
- High attention to detail and comfort with numerical analysis
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Competitive basic salary
- Annual bonuses (subject to year on year increments)
- Market-leading benefits
- Excellent in-house & external training / professional courses
- For the right, successful candidate our client has the ability to sponsor an existing visa