Fares & Distribution Executive

Qualifications, Skills, and Competencies:

• A bachelor degree combined with 4+ years of experience in fares management, preferably in the Airline, Travel or Hospitality industry
  
• An IATA diploma an added advantage.
  
• Experience in pricing, tariff and distribution
  

• 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 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 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 fare filing efficiency of Uganda Airlines.
  
• Perform administrative processes such as updates of 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 timely and accurate manner.
  
• Support any review of system enhancement and process reengineering to improve fare distribution efficiency.
  
• Be point of contact for all fare filing related issues with stations and pricing team.
  
• Perform direct fare filing into ATPCO if necessary.
  
• Provide advice to pricing teams in Head Office and overseas stations for filing approach that achieve the desired commercial outcome by fully exploiting capability of fare filing system.
  
• Research and develop filing approach to achieve commercial objectives for cross selling, ancillary bundling, and personalization.
  
• Effective dissemination of tariff updates to pricing team or relevant frontline sales and marketing staff.