Gaurav Vaid Email & Phone Number

Ahmedabad, GJ, IN

India

fifty8® is a knowledge processing business outsourcing and consultancy firm delivering services in hotel revenue & commercial strategy, accounting, bookkeeping & finance and IT software solutions.Operating in four key business areas with each area providing services across multiple geographic locations to clients that include accountants, businesses.

India

A start-up building an automated cloud based SaaS solution for hotel commercial data analytics which will deliver at least 50% more efficiency for hotel commercial team. A business intelligence solution providing interactive data visualization dashboard for hotel commercial and operations team.Deliver an extensively comprehensive data analytics solution to.

Miami

• Lead the revenue strategy functions for North & South America (city hotels, resorts and all-inclusive resorts)
• Implemented dynamic pricing model across all the key segments and thus ceasing the legacy of static pricing
• Structured and implemented the Revenue Strategy organization and functions in the region - incorporating the area structure in to the region
• Lead the pricing decisions of wholesale contracting for all the key hotels in the portfolio
• Key member of a strategic team on the selection of a revenue management system for the company
• Lead various pre-opening, re-opening, refurbishment and conversion projects for price positioning and revenue strategies

Holiday Inn Singapore Orchard City Centre (324 rooms)

• Lead front office, food & beverage, catering, sales & marketing and revenue strategy teams at Holiday Inn Singapore Orchard City Centre (324 rooms)
• Assisted General Manager in the development, implementation and monitoring of financial and operational plans for the hotel
• Ensured optimum guest satisfaction, sales potential and profit delivery for the key stakeholders
• Collaborated with Director of Finance in the preparation and management of the departmental budget to deliver operational and business efficiency
• Developed best practices for the financial reporting to the COO and CFO and also deliver financial results during monthly performance meetings
• Lead and performed as acting General Manager in GM's absence

Shanghai City, China

• Lead revenue management functions for 20 hotels across 15 markets in Asia Pacific including China
• Established the revenue strategy culture, practices, systems and tools in Asia Pacific region including China to support brand expansion and business delivery
• Lead the e-commerce and distribution strategy for the region to maximize the potential inbound and outbound revenue for the company
• Lead the Human Resources RM strategy (talent management and succession planning) for the Region

Singapore

• Excelled in four different performance driven roles with IHG
• Area Revenue Manager, Singapore (post merger of IMEA and Asia Australasia region in to AMEA)
• Assistant Area Revenue Manager - Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines
• Director of Revenue Strategy at Holiday Inn Singapore Orchard City Centre (324 rooms)
• Revenue Manager at Holiday Inn Bangkok Silom (684 rooms)
• Lead commercial strategies in multiple markets to deliver revenue and profit objectives

Ahmedabad / Hyderabad

• Performed in two different roles while with Marriott International
• Revenue Manager at Courtyard by Marriott, Ahmedabad (164 rooms)
• Assistant Revenue Manager, Hyderabad Marriott Hotel & Convention Centre (293 rooms) and pre-opening Courtyard by Marriott, Hyderabad (164 rooms) as a complex set-up
• Positioned sales and pricing strategy for pre-opening hotels
• Developed the Catering revenue management culture and tools while in Hyderabad involving all the key stake holders at Hyderabad Marriott Hotel & Convention Centre - a pilot project for India and Malaysia Area

The Leela Kempinski (Mumbai), India

• Started my career as a management trainee in operations and performed to grow in to revenue management function
• Developed multiple excel based tools & models for forecasting, pricing and business evaluation to support the revenue strategy culture implementation
• Undertook the additional responsibility of web co-ordinator and set up of IDeaS RMS
• Lead the switch over of Ideas PMS to Opera and also set up of the reservations department at The Leela Kempinski, Kovalam after the switch over from Ideas PMS to Opera PMS