Lead Business Strategy

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We are proud to be the vacation-industry leader with global brands — including Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises and Silversea Cruises — the most innovative fleet and private destinations, and the best people. Together, we are dedicated to turning the vacation of a lifetime into a lifetime of vacations for our guests.

This position will be working onsite from Miami.

Position Summary:

This role is responsible with supporting the Sr. Manager, Brand Strategy, in contributing to the development of strategic plans for the Silversea brand, ensuring current operations align with the brand’s current and long-term strategic goals, with a focus on fleet growth initiatives such as fleet modification and newbuild programs, and tracking the brand's long-range financial performance to drive insights and recommendations for leadership. The position will assist with business case development, identifying value-creation opportunities, and help improve brand profitability, including financial modeling and operational support for fleet modification business cases and serving as the brand's financial liaison to the newbuild commercial strategy team. Acting as an internal consultant and working lead without direct reports, this role supports cross-departmental projects and analysis, communicates key strategic updates to the management team, assists with prioritizing brand initiatives, helps lead the executive board presentation and reporting process with the Brand President, supports creation of all board materials, and provides analytical insights to drive business improvement opportunities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leads the development and financial modeling of fleet modification business cases, partnering with operations and finance to validate assumptions and returns.
• Serves as the primary financial liaison for fleet growth initiatives, coordinating modeling and operational support across cross-functional teams.
• Monitors and analyzes brand KPIs and initiatives aligned with the brand’s operating plan and five-year strategic plan.
• Leads newbuild financial modeling, including capital planning, revenue, and profitability projections for new vessel deliveries.
• Acts as the brand's connection point to the newbuild commercial strategy team, ensuring alignment between newbuild plans and brand strategic priorities.
• Leads the monthly brand performance reporting and review process, delivering actionable insights to brand leadership.
• Tracks brand long-range financial performance and analysis, and is responsible for driving insights and recommendations to brand leadership.
• Leads the executive board presentation and reporting process, partnering directly with the Brand President.
• Owns the creation and quality control of all board materials, ensuring consistency and accuracy across presentations.
• Builds and maintains financial models with different scenarios, developing alternative approaches to fleet modification, newbuild, cost, and revenue opportunities.
• Sizes investment and cost-savings opportunities across all brand areas and initiatives.
• Guides and reviews the analytical work of junior team members supporting fleet and newbuild initiatives, without formal direct-report responsibility.
• Partners with brand operating teams and senior leadership on special projects and key strategic initiatives tied to fleet growth.
• Continually assesses Silversea's fleet and newbuild strategy against market opportunities and threats, promoting actionable proposals.
• Leads financial modeling related to fleet modification and newbuild business opportunities.
• Leads development of strategic plan financials tied to fleet growth initiatives.
• Leads development of long-range capital plan, including newbuild capital requirements.
• Leads development and analysis of financial models supporting fleet growth and newbuild investment decisions.
• Supports financial objectives of Silversea through the identification of additional revenue and cost reduction, and serves as financial liaison between Brand Strategy and the Newbuild Commercial Strategy team, partnering with the Brand President's office on executive board reporting.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• 6-7+ years of finance, business analysis and/or revenue management experience.
• Possess strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working effectively with senior management including executive level presentations.
• Experience working on highly analytical projects.
• Advanced working knowledge of Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Experience leading projects and mentoring junior analysts in a similar planning / analysis function, without formal supervisory responsibility.
• Critical thinker, who demonstrates drive and a desire to improve processes where appropriate.
• Able to build good working relationships with personnel at all levels located at the corporate offices and global offices.
• Experience of using database query tools (such as Power BI or Hyperion).
• Strong business writing skills.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those requirements employees must meet to perform the essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodations.
• While performing job functions the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, write, review and type reports, compile data, operate a computer, communicate, listen, and assess information.
• The employee may move about the office complex, may travel to other office locations, and may lift, push, pull or move 10 - 15 pounds.
• Visual requirements include distant, close and color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

We know there's a lot to consider. As you go through the application process, our recruiters will be glad to provide guidance, and more relevant details to answer any additional questions. Thank you again for your interest in Royal Caribbean Group. We'll hope to see you onboard soon!

It is the policy of the Company to ensure equal employment and promotion opportunity to qualified candidates without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, sexuality, gender identity or expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Royal Caribbean Group and each of its subsidiaries prohibit and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment.

No immigration sponsorship offered.

Agency and Third-Party Submissions: Please note this is a direct search by the Company, and applications through agencies and other third parties will not be accepted, nor will fees be paid for unsolicited resumes. Any unsolicited resumes will be considered the Company's property.