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Uganda Airlines Jobs – Fares and Distribution Executive
Job Title: Fares and Distribution Executive
Organisation: Uganda National Airlines Company Limited
Duty Station: Entebbe, Uganda
Reports to: Assistant Manager, Ticketing and Reservations
About US:
Uganda Airlines is the flag carrier of Uganda. The company is a revival of the older Uganda Airlines which operated from 1977 until 2001. It began flying in August 2019.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Achieve load factor and revenue KPIs through the application of class-mix management.
- Analyze data to identify booking trends, product performance, network transfers, etc. to take proactive measures to enhance and protect AWA’s diverse revenue streams.
- Devise control strategies to prevent revenue loss due to spoilage due to duplicate, fake, and/or partly paid bookings.
- Evaluate market conditions and trends to inform inventory management decisions
- Monitor route performance vis-à-vis agreed targets and liaise with the sales team to identify opportunities and threats proactively and take appropriate measures to ensure route revenue targets are achieved.
- Liaise with other units and departments to identify and capitalize on potential revenue generation opportunities.
- Provide support to interline and codeshare partners as required; conduct analysis of interline traffic being received from various partners.
- Provide revenue performance reports on a weekly basis.
- Ensure the fare filing process for quick and accurate fare filing is adhered to by all relevant parties.
- Work closely with ATPCO and SITA for opportunities to improve the fare filing efficiency of Uganda Airlines.
- Perform administrative processes such as updates of the Passenger Air Tariff Manual and passenger tax filing and ensure they are done in a timely and accurate manner.
- Administer contracts and ensure billing with fare filing-related vendors are done in a timely and accurate manner.
- Support any review of system enhancement and process reengineering to improve fare distribution efficiency.
- Be the point of contact for all fare filing-related issues with stations and the pricing team.
- Perform direct fare filing into ATPCO if necessary.
- Provide advice to pricing teams in Head Office and overseas stations for filing approaches that achieve the desired commercial outcome by fully exploiting the capability of the fare filing system.
- Research and develop a filing approach to achieve commercial objectives for cross-selling, ancillary bundling, and personalization.
- Effective dissemination of tariff updates to the pricing team or relevant frontline sales and marketing staff.
- Monitor SLA compliance with fare filing vendor.
- Assist in managing a team of support staff in fare filing activities.
- Perform fare filing and coding directly into ATPCO Fare Manager or any tools that may be made available for fare and product distribution.
- Support customization of corporate contracts
- Assess and improve the effectiveness of fare filing by the vendor. Monitor SLA of fare filing vendor.
- Any other administrative duties required to support the activities of the department.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the Uganda Airlines Fares and Distribution Executive must hold a Bachelor’s degree
- An IATA diploma an added advantage.
- At least four years of experience in fares management, preferably in the Airline, Travel or Hospitality industry
- Experience in pricing, tariff, and distribution
- Prior fare filing experience using ATPCO will be a significant advantage
How to Apply:
All candidates who wish to join Uganda Airlines in this capacity should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 31st July 2023
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