Pricing Project Manager

Job Description

Accor Tech & Digital is the innovation and technological transformation lab of the world leader in hospitality.

Our teams, known as Heartists®, bring together the best of hospitality with the best of tech and digital. Our ambition is to provide our customers with personalized, memorable, and sustainable experiences.

Here, we create new ways to travel within each of our 5,500 hotels, connecting closely with our 100 million clients in 110 countries.

Here, we are at the heart of an incredible playground for technological transition and the design of digital products and services for our customers and hotel teams.

Here, your scope will know no boundaries;

So join us and dare to make an impact on the world!

Here is where your greatest challenge awaits you: 

As a key contributor within the Global Pricing Excellence team, the Pricing Project Manager will play a crucial role in enhancing our pricing framework by designing and maintaining robust pricing standards and the related documentation. You will lead and support critical projects aimed at optimizing our rate structures and referentials across Accor. This embarks a unique chance to contribute to a complete overhaul in the context of our upcoming CRS change.  

This position requires a detail-oriented individual with strong project management skills, a solid understanding of pricing principles in the hospitality sector, and proven analytical capabilities to diagnose issues, interpret performance, and leverage data-driven insights.

Your mission:  
  

1. Pricing Project Management & Evolution: 

• Project Execution: Manage the lifecycle of assigned pricing projects, ensuring timely delivery, adherence to scope, and coordination with various stakeholders. 

• Performance Analysis: Evaluate the impact of new pricing initiatives on key business metrics. 
    

1. CRS Modernization Support: 

• System Transition Assistance: Act as a key support for the transition to our new CRS, assisting in the meticulous design, building, and migration of rate libraries and referentials, ensuring pricing methodologies and practices align seamlessly with technological advancements, providing operational support throughout this transformation. 

• Project Rollout Contribution: Support the successful execution and rollout of key pricing projects within the new CRS, including contributing to the segmentation rollout, rate clean-up initiatives, and potential room type migrations. 
    

1. Pricing Documentation & Governance: 

• Pricing Documentation Maintenance: Develop, update, and maintain comprehensive pricing documentation, including the global opening book and the detailed rate referentials, ensuring accuracy and accessibility. 

• Rate Governance Support: Support the operational aspects of rate governance frameworks, contributing to the establishment and enforcement of pricing rules and guidelines, with regions, brands and loading teams. 

• Referential Management: Ensure the integrity and accuracy of our rate referential data, acting as a key point of contact for related updates and queries. 

Qualifications

And you? 

• Proven experience in revenue and pricing management (3+ years), preferably in the hospitality or travel industry. 

• Strong working knowledge of CRS (central reservation systems), PMS (property management systems), RMS (revenue management systems), Channel Management, and other hotel systems and onward distribution. 

• Deep knowledge of hospitality and tourism sectors, preferably international, with very good overview of distribution landscape and coherence between used systems and available solutions 

• Technology savvy with understanding of BI tools/processes 

• Strong organizational, project management skills required, particularly in the context of technology implementations, with experience in managing diverse teams across different cultures 

• Strong numerical and analytical background, with the ability to derive insights from data 

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - Excellent verbal and written communication skills 

• High engagement and ability to work in a team 

• Ability to autonomously work in high-pressure situations 

• Passionate about helping leading hotels to capitalize on technology opportunities 

• Fluent English skills 

Additional Information

Accor dares to impact: 

- the world  

• Accor is committed to the world around us, with a strong employer culture focused on the development of our 300,000 talents. 
• We adopt a continuous improvement approach to reduce the impact of digital on the environment across all our projects.

- your career:  

• We enable all our employees to manage their work-life balance and offer them the means to shape their work environment according to their preferences. 
• Training and career paths are defined both individually and collectively, allowing us to grow together on a daily basis. 

- Specifically, at Accor Tech & Digital:

• Remote work available several days per week from France, with flexible work options: work from home, from our offices, or even from our hotels and coworking spaces through Worklib.
• Every Wednesday afternoon, dedicate your time to deep work and personal development.
• Work in a multicultural and English-speaking environment.
• Continuous improvement & training: hackathons, exceptional technology partnerships, dedicated talent management, certifications and a dedicated learning platform.

and also,

• ALL - Heartist® Program: unforgettable stays and experiences at all Accor locations and partner venues worldwide. 
• Heartist® for Good Program: commit to supporting an association of your choice from those available on our volunteering platform (1 day offered per year by the Group during your working hours). 
• An Employee Social Committee (CSE) supporting the financing of your cultural and sports activities. 
• Sustainable Mobility Package for the use of eco-friendly transportation or access to a company bike program in partnership with Zenride.
• Coverage of urban public transport subscriptions between home and workplace, in accordance with the rates set by French law “Loi Finance”.
• €11 meal vouchers.
• A mandatory health insurance plan funded at 50% by Accor without additional costs in case of enrollment of your dependents. 
• Attractive working conditions with collaborative workspaces, restaurants, and recreational areas as well as wellness and sports facilities, on-site or through Gymlib.

Your talent and motivation are our only selection criteria.

We value the richness of diverse nationalities, personalities, and professional backgrounds.

We know how to adapt to the specific needs of our employees, including those with disabilities.
We encourage all applications, regardless of gender, so go ahead and apply!

Recruitment is all about people!  

Is this mission appealing to you? Apply, and we will offer you: 

1. A meeting with our recruitment team to present the essential aspects of the position to you or guide you towards the role that may suit you. 
2. An interview with the team manager responsible for the role you are interested in.  
3. For some roles, you might also be required to complete an assessment (use case and motivation questionnaire. 
4. A final interview with our Human Resources team to discuss our Group's culture, work environment, training program, career prospects, as well as various benefits offered by the Group. 
5. A personalized feedback. 

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