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Pricing Specialist

1 month ago

Chester Cheshire, United Kingdom SYKES COTTAGES LTD Full time €25,000

Our Revenue Management Team have the opportunity for a Pricing Specialist totake up their latest career challenge within a leading name in holiday industry.
This is a 10 month Fixed Contract position starting as soon as possible.

  • Paying a salary up to £25,000 per annum
  • Plus access to our annual STIP (annual company-wide bonus) scheme with up to an additional 10% of your salary
  • 33 days annual leave including bank holidays
  • Plus anadditional day off for your Birthday
  • Plus an additional two volunteering days per year
  • A flexible hybrid-working policy, with a min two days a week from our Chester head office
  • An enhanced maternity and paternity policy
  • Inclusive and supportive work environment
  • Employee discounts and benefits with your wellbeing at the centre
  • Opportunities for career progression, personal development and opportunities to be recognised
  • Comprehensive training and development programs to set you up for success
  • Study support for additional qualifications, courses and accreditations
  • Numerous dedicated wellbeing initiatives and access to 24/7 mental health support
  • On-site gym at our Chester HQ

The Pricing Specialist role contributes to the success of both Market Pricing and New Property Pricing Teams. As a whole team we are focused on optimising revenue for our property owners and for the business by setting optimal pricing for new and existing owners.


This role plays a key role in the department as a pricing expert who is a point of contact for owners and a support to internal stakeholders in the Property Recruitment and Operations teams.

Your Responsibilities

Handling inbound and outbound contact with owners to discuss property pricing and give data led advice

Developing a thorough understanding of Revenue Management processes, initiatives and decisions and using this information to provide expert advice to owners and internal stakeholders

Promoting revenue management initiatives such as Super Income Maximisation & short breaks to owners by selling the benefits. This requires a detailed understanding of the various options and commercial terms in order to maximise income and revenue for both owners and Sykes

Working with the Revenue Management team to create owner friendly compelling evidence to support the promotion of income and short break options

Using various data sources to prepare thoroughly researched pricing proposals and income projections for new property leads

Providing logical guidelines to the Negotiation team on pricing flexibility based on Income Maximisation and Short Break options, creating a negotiation range for them to work within

Assessing and approving pricing proposals as submitted by our Property Consultants

Liaising with Property Consultants to provide feedback on pricing, and coaching where necessary

Implementing and championing new pricing strategies generated by the Pricing Research team into pricing proposals, and promoting this to the Negotiation and field teams

The team operates 6 days a week on a shift-based rota and open hours are from 9am-7pm Mon Fri and 9-5:30pm Saturdays. These hours rotate between 9am-5:30pm and 10:30am-7pm but may change seasonally as responding within tight deadlines to meet SLAs is essential in this role.

The role holder will be an analytical, results oriented individual who is an excellent communicator and has a commercially focused mindset.

Skills and Qualifications

We are looking for those who can share in our company goals, values and ethos, who can grow alongside us and whose skills can aid our ongoing success
ByBeing One Team, Owning it, Communicating Honestly and showcasing a devotion toLearning, Growing and Innovating, we remain true to our original ethos and ensure we stay true to our Customers, Owners and Colleagues alike.
First and foremost we are interested in those who have the potential to hold these values, as for this position, we ask you to have the following key skills:

  • Good numeracy and data interpretation skills
  • Customer Experience Skills
  • Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
  • Understanding of factors affecting price levels
  • Proven negotiator in difficult situations
  • Strong commercial awareness (ideally within the holiday lettings or travel and tourism industry)
  • Understanding of browser based IT systems
  • Experience using MS Office suite (Excel etc)
Although standouts will also have:
  • Data analysis experience
  • Pricing background
  • Understanding of demand elasticity and revenue management
  • Experience of contract and commercial terms negotiation
  • Ability to effectively communicate with other teams to influence change
  • Experience of working within the travel and tourism industry and/or property sectors (e.g. estate agency or residential lettings)
??If you are actively seeking your next career challenge, keen to join a diverse, exciting team, or want to grow your career within an industry leader, we welcome you to get in touch or apply
Who we are

Sykes Holiday Cottages is a business with big dreams and bursting with ambition. We have pinned our sights on becoming the UK's number one holiday rental agency and will stop at nothing to reach our goal, combining over 30 years industry experience with our fierce company drive to become the best in the market for what we do. What started as a small, family-run company has now grown to be an 2000-strong workforce of ambitious, passionate professionals working under the Forge Holiday Group parent brand.

The Forge Holiday Group encompasses Sykes Holiday Cottages, Forest Holidays, UKcaravans4hire and Bachcare in New Zealand and unites us under four company values, which are the foundations of every aspect of our business and remain at the heart of everything we do. By Being One Team, Owning it, Communicating Honestly and showcasing a devotion to Learning, Growing and Innovating, we remain true to our original ethos and ensure we stay true to our Customers, Owners and Colleagues alike.

Sykes Holiday Cottages is extremely proud to be B Corp Certified, which means we are part of a global community of businesses leading a worldwide movement for an equitable, inclusive and regenerative economy.

Diversity and Inclusion:

Here at the Sykes Cottages Family, we encourage and welcome our people to bring their authentic and best selves to work every day. We know the power that comes from different ideas, backgrounds and perspectives. We recognise the role diversity plays in achieving our goals as a business. We actively welcome applications from as wide a range of backgrounds as possible. If you need any particular support or accommodations as part of your application process, please get in touch - our recruitment team are happy to help.

Hybrid Working:

We are proud to support hybrid-working across the business, with a mixture or remote and office working available. This will be discussed during your interview.

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