Who are we looking for?

Choice Hotels, one of the world’s largest lodging franchisors, has an exciting new opportunity as our Senior Analyst, Third-Party Distribution. The Third-Party Distribution team is the team who maintains relationship, evaluate, track performance and business trends for Online Travel Agents (OTAs’), Wholesalers and Global Distribution Systems (GDS) among other ad hoc strategic insights across the business. As a key member of our Third-Party Distribution team, you will support the Distribution Manager, Third-Party Distribution by producing impactful analysis for these above-mentioned channels.

If this role aligns with your experience, w e invite you to apply today for our Sr. Analyst, Third Party Distribution role today and #MakeItYourChoice.

Your Responsibilities

• Analyze OTAs’ performance metrics to understand how our business is performing, and work with the Distribution Manager, Third-Party Distribution to understand the context behind the performance utilizing analytical tools, market intelligence and systems.

• Assist Distribution Manager with lead scoring and other revenue generating initiatives.

• Communicate performance insights to leadership both inside and outside Third-Party Distribution through structured reporting as well as ad-hoc requests.

• Proactively search for gaps and find areas of improvement to present to the Distribution Manager to impact performance.

• Manage all initiatives, reporting and assessing value of promotions, new strategies and opportunities that would impact OTAs’ performance.

• Build analytical models and apply analytics competencies in SQL, SAS, Python, and Tableau to assess historical and future performance.

• Partner with business intelligence to obtain new data sources and methods for measuring performance of initiatives.

• Conduct market research on actions taken by competitors and provide recommendations.

• Perform other tasks assigned by the Distribution Manager, Third-Party Distribution.

  Your Experience, Skills & Competencies

• Bachelor's degree strongly preferred or equivalent experience

• 2-3 years of strategy experience and/or industry related experience preferred.

• Skilled at translating data and research into key insights, operational implications, and making recommendations based on findings.

• Advanced PowerPoint skills required. Ability to tell a story and advise strategy based on data.

• Strong organizational, time-management, communication, and presentation skills

• Proficiency with MS Office applications such as Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel

• Ability to query data and leverage various platforms such as Tableau, Salesforce.com, SQL, SAS, Python and Lanyon strongly preferred.

• Must be able to uphold Choice’s Values & Performance Principles of collaboration, performance excellence, sense of urgency, openness to new ideas, inclusion & diversity, integrity, customer focus, and respect.

• Background in travel or hospitality a plus.

  Your Team

  This is an individual contributor role that will report to the Distribution Manager, Third-Party Distribution. You will have one peer teammate and collaborate with cross functional departments on a regular basis.

About Choice

Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH) is one of the largest lodging franchisors in the world. With nearly 7,500 hotels, representing nearly 630,000 rooms, in 46 countries and territories as of September 30, 2022, the Choice® family of hotel brands provides business and leisure travelers with a range of high-quality lodging options from limited service to full-service hotels in the upper upscale, upper mid-scale, midscale, extended-stay, and economy segments. The award-winning Choice Privileges® loyalty program offers members a faster way to rewards, with personalized benefits starting on day one. For more information, visit www.choicehotels.com.

At our worldwide corporate headquarters in North Bethesda, MD and St. Louis Park, MN as well as our technology center in Scottsdale, AZ, and through our associates around the globe, we keep Choice hotels thriving by serving as a champion for our franchisees and providing cutting-edge technology.

About Choice Hotels Financial Performance

Total revenues were $425.6 million for third quarter 2023, a third quarter record and a 3% increase compared to the same period of 2022. Please click here (https://media.choicehotels.com/2023-11-07-Choice-Hotels-International-Reports-Third-Quarter-2023-Results) to review highlights of our results.

* PLEASE NOTE: This role is not eligible for sponsorship *

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