Samar Rana Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Currently overseeing the Revenue Management vertical for Rosewood Hotel Georgia and Rosewood Sand Hill, California based out of Vancouver, Canada.

Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada

Revenue Strategy head for the dubai based company. Responsible to maximise the scope of work for hotels in International markets. # Some key assignments included DUR Hospitality Group with managing their 3 key Makarem hotels in Saudi Arabia along with other independent hotels located in regions like Dubai and Vietnam. Also handled the portfolio of Residency group of hotels based in South India.

Gurgaon, India

- Founded the Revenue Management vertical to maximize organization's scope of work. - Exhibited Intrapreneurship to create complete framework for revenue management. - Designed short, medium and long-term strategies for the hotel, optimal market segment mix, booking traffic analysis to marketplace and working with hotel teams to achieve the optimal results.# Key assignments - The Leela Palace New Delhi, Radisson Blu Plaza Delhi Airport, Radisson Blu Nagpur, Indore and Noida, Select Hotels - Heritage Resort Manesar & Goa, The Residency Group, HRH Hotels, Peerless Inn Hotels and assisted over 30 other hotels.

Gurgaon, India

Managed big portfolio brands like Accor, Taj, Marriott, Intercontinental and Radisson hotel group with hotels like Goa Marriott, Taj City Centre Gurgaon, Fairmont Jaipur, Intercontinental Marine Drive, Radisson Blu Plaza Delhi Airport, Sheraton Dushanbe, Renaissance Bangalore.- Responsible for delivery of revenue, operating profit and other financial/non-financial KPIs of operating assets to achieve the annual business plan. - Determining annual budgets; conducting detailed cross-sectional P&L analysis, market assessment and competitive set analysis to identify opportunities in revenue and cost reduction.- Review and analyze monthly operating performance of hotel assets in detail to include P&L statements, market data, brand metrics, guest loyalty feedback and sales performance.- Participate in the planning an execution of capital projects and renovations.- Assisted with legal-related issues include retail leases, joint venture agreements, license agreements, management agreements, etc.

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

# Managed big portfolio brands like Accor, Taj, Marriott, Intercontinental and Radisson hotel group like Goa Marriott, Taj City Centre Gurgaon, Fairmont Jaipur, Intercontinental Marine Drive, Radisson Blu Plaza Delhi Airport, Sheraton Dushanbe, Renaissance Bangalore.- Responsible for delivery of revenue, operating profit and other financial/non-financial KPIs of operating assets to achieve the annual business plan. - Planning and managing asset level interventions - new F&B concepts, refurbishment/renovations, energy savings.- Monitoring operations quality, asset quality and upkeep; Identifying opportunities to better leverage the real-estate. - Conducting periodic performance reviews and providing recommendations to operating assets to ensure business plan achievement. - Managing operator relationships and negotiating management agreements. - Conduct benchmarking analyses against other hotels to help identify areas of improvement for the individual assets.

New Delhi Area, India

Pullman Aerocity - 270 keys and Novotel Aerocity - 400 keys- Successfully launched portfolio of Pullman & Novotel New Delhi, Aerocity- Launched Aerocity first 24hours check-in, check-out rates within the micro market along with introducing hourly pricing in the Aerocity cluster as part of Airport Transit strategy.- An integral part of deciding the hotel’s overall commercial, financial and personnel strategy.- Part of the hotel’s representation team towards the ownership- Involved in set up of key RMS - MICROS Opera, TARS, Resa Web, EzRMS(RM software)

Gurgaon, India

The Leela Kempinski, Gurgaon322 Guest Rooms and 90 Service Apartments- Positioned the Leela Ambience, Gurgaon in Top 3 hotels in Gurgaon within a year of operation.- RFP 98% Revenue Growth and 100% Room Night growth with over 100 RFP's for 2 consecutive years.- Increasing the brand penetration from 2.7% to 8.6% within 2 years.- Forecasting 3 consecutive months, top of the league table in India with 0% - 0.6% variance- Transient 32% growth over 2011 & 2012 by identifying non-traditional booking sources.- Developing MICE business for hotel With RevPAS over INR 60 per sq.ft - TGOP 19% growth YOY

Gurgaon, India

Trident, Gurgaon 136 keys- Number 1 RGI hotel in Delhi NCR for 2006 and 2007- TripAdvisor Attaining 1 ranking within a year of opening in 2006.- Increasing the brand penetration from 2.1% to 5.2% within 2 years.- Transient Over 40% increase in Non-Qualified/ Retail Mix in 2006 & 2007.

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