SVO is Hiring VP Inventory Yield & Club Development

[clsmit]

Want to be in charge of how many weeks the owners get v. Starwood can rent as hotel rooms? This job is for you! The job was recently posted on the SVO careers site. You have to live in Orlando, though.

VP Inventory Yield & Club Development
(excerpts from job posting)


Responsible for the overall strategy for effective utilization of all Inventory including developing inventory forecasts and use analysis to meet Owner, Rental and Timeshare Marketing demand, and ensuring revenue maximization.

Ensure that inventory is utilized and managed appropriately and in accordance with all legal restrictions (e.g. Developer, Owner, 60 Day, etc). This includes owning the annual Exchange audit process for SVO's varied internal exchange entities/clubs.

Responsible for overall development and maintenance of SVN rules and valuation methods and strategies for both StarOption and SPG programs. This includes determination of member and transaction fees for SVN.

Lead the Divisional effort to determine the highest and best use of room night inventory (yield per occupied room nights, YPOR). Identify risks in occupancy and (assess) marketing strategies to (ensure positive) effect outcome against company goals.

Responsible for the management of SVO exchange programs and maintain advantageous working relationships with the external exchange companies (Interval International, RCI).

Responsible for all budgeting and forecasting processes for Room Drivers (e.g. room nights) for the division.

Provides global analytical support to determine such things as Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) Conversion cost budget and forecasts, Gross Arrivals budgets, inventory available for sale, etc.
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Any takers?

www.starwoodcareers.com

 

[DavidnRobin]

I hear nodge may apply...

 

[tomandrobin]

I hear nodge may apply...

Where is Nodge?

 

[DeniseM]

Where is Nodge?

He visited TUG today...but not posting much.

 

[tomandrobin]

He visited TUG today...but not posting much.

I guess to be fair.....I don't post much any more either.

 

[nodge]

Alright I’ll bite . . . . .

I ran this job description through the SVO decoder we all got a few years ago. I’m a little rusty so bear with me, but here is what I’m seeing through my decoder. Decoder provided supplemental text is underlined:

Job Listing:

VP ... OWNER MILKER

Responsible for . . . ensuring revenue maximization.

Ensure that . . . .we don’t get sued by owners while we are busy maximizing revenue.

Responsible for . . .determination of new and larger member and transaction fees for SVN so as to ensure revenue maximization.

Lead the Divisional effort to determine the highest and best use of room night inventory (yield per occupied room nights, YPOR). Identify risks in occupancy and (assess) marketing strategies to (ensure positive) effect outcome against company goals of ensuring revenue maximization for us at the expense of owners but not so much that you get us sued.

Responsible for the management of SVO exchange programs and maintain advantageous working relationships with the external exchange companies (Interval International, RCI) so as to maximize revenue for us but not so much that you get us sued.

Responsible for all budgeting and forecasting processes for Room Drivers (e.g. room nights) for the division (we don’t know what this means either, but it sounded important and sort of like we know what we are talking about so we threw it in).

Provides global analytical support to determine such things as Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) Conversion cost budget and forecasts, Gross Arrivals budgets, inventory available for sale, etc. . . . oh come on, if you haven’t figured it out yet we need someone to take a fresh look at our captive cash cow owners and figure out how we can further milk them even drier without getting sued. . .. We would really, really, really like to make more money from our owners, but there are these law things we have to deal with that could get in the way of that. So, we’re willing to pay good money in the form of a salary with full benefits (... it’s not even our money now is it so what do we care anyway? In fact, it’s the money of the very owners that we’re gearing up to go after . . . . how ironic don’t 'cha think? It’s good being us. . .) to the right person that can help us make more money without getting sued.

If we can’t find anyone with this particular skill set because they are all in jail somewhere, we’ll just make this yet another “do nothing” VP job that we’ll give to one of our relatives that’s been sitting around the house watching “Honey Boo Boo” all day so it’s a “win” for us either way.

-nodge

 

[GrayFal]

Love Ya nodge! I knew you would get to the bottom of this

 

[lizap]

Hilarious

 

[DeniseM]

He visited TUG today...but not posting much.

To the person who reported my post: Any dummy can click on anyone's user name and see when they visited TUG last - so get a grip.

 

[tomandrobin]

LOL....Good seeing you Nodge!

That's great stuff.....

 

[tomandrobin]

To the person who reported my post: Any dummy can click on anyone's user name and see when they visited TUG last - so get a grip.

lol....That's funny too!

 

[clsmit]

Thanks nodge! I knew you'd come through to help us out! May your next WKROV visit include neither the portapotty view nor the garbage view!

 

[DavidnRobin]

nodge - perfect - thanks for the belly laugh.