Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday
Location: Hybrid role with 3 days a week in our VHQ, Crawley, West Sussex
Contract: 12 Months FTC/Secondment
Closing Date: Tuesday, 20th May 2025
At Virgin Atlantic Holidays (VAH), we’re just as passionate as we’ve always been about becoming the most loved travel company. We know that the right people are key to creating success – so we’re looking for a Route Analyst to join our #VirginFamily to help us achieve our vision. Perhaps that’s you? We’d love to find out.
In this role, you will have responsibility for route pricing strategies across multiple brands, ensuring they are effectively controlled to achieve group margin and contribution targets. Working closely with Virgin Atlantic Revenue Management, Virgin Holidays Product and Sales teams, you will play a vital role in optimising revenue through working closely with key internal departments as the first point of contact for departmental queries. Providing weekly and monthly trading reporting, detailing concerns, and highlighting opportunities to the business.
- Ensure controls are in place to track the accuracy of margins and progress toward forecasts.
- Apply revenue management principles at route (macro) and accommodation (micro) levels throughout the product lifecycle.
- Manage profitability throughout the booking curve – track rate of sale and margin profiles throughout the booking curve at the component level.
- Implement Revenue Management methodologies to optimise performance.
- Provide weekly and monthly trading reporting, detailing concerns and highlighting opportunities against forward departure date budget requirements, detailing actions taken and to be taken.
- Compile, utilise, and present competitor data analysis ensuring information is accurate and that we are well-priced within our competitive set.
- Investigate Competitor / Pricing / Margin and availability issues ensuring communication with relevant departments.
- Support Commercial Trading Manager in reviewing and optimising processes within VAH Revenue Management Team.
- Provide support and coaching when required to assist with the development of the Executive – Route team.
Are you able to build trust quickly with your peers in a team environment? Then this could be the role for you!
Alongside the above, we're looking for the following to be successful in your application:
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to use initiative, analyse large amounts of data, draw conclusions, and make action plans.
- Ability to constructively challenge business decisions and provide alternative suggestions that are well-thought-out.
- Great attention to detail and an ability to present data in a dynamic, insightful, and informative format that is easy to understand.
If the above sounds like you, then we'd love to hear from you!
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