Uganda Airlines Jobs – Fares and Distribution Executive

Job Title:    Fares and Distribution Executive

Organisation: Uganda National Airlines Company Limited

Duty Station: Entebbe, Uganda

Reports to: Assistant Manager, Ticketing and Reservations

About US:

Uganda Airlines is the flag carrier of Uganda. The company is a revival of the older Uganda Airlines which operated from 1977 until 2001. It began flying in August 2019.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• 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 the 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 the 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 the fare filing efficiency of Uganda Airlines.
• Perform administrative processes such as updates of the 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 a timely and accurate manner.
• Support any review of system enhancement and process reengineering to improve fare distribution efficiency.
• Be the point of contact for all fare filing-related issues with stations and the pricing team.
• Perform direct fare filing into ATPCO if necessary.
• Provide advice to pricing teams in Head Office and overseas stations for filing approaches that achieve the desired commercial outcome by fully exploiting the capability of the fare filing system.
• Research and develop a filing approach to achieve commercial objectives for cross-selling, ancillary bundling, and personalization.
• Effective dissemination of tariff updates to the pricing team or relevant frontline sales and marketing staff.
• Monitor SLA compliance with fare filing vendor.
• Assist in managing a team of support staff in fare filing activities.
• Perform fare filing and coding directly into ATPCO Fare Manager or any tools that may be made available for fare and product distribution.
• Support customization of corporate contracts
• Assess and improve the effectiveness of fare filing by the vendor. Monitor SLA of fare filing vendor.
• Any other administrative duties required to support the activities of the department.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant for the Uganda Airlines Fares and Distribution Executive must hold a Bachelor’s degree
• An IATA diploma an added advantage.
• At least four years of experience in fares management, preferably in the Airline, Travel or Hospitality industry
• Experience in pricing, tariff, and distribution
• Prior fare filing experience using ATPCO will be a significant advantage

How to Apply:

All candidates who wish to join Uganda Airlines in this capacity should apply online at the link below.

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Deadline: 31st July 2023