Sr. Lead – Deployment Planning

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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.

The Royal Caribbean Group’s CelebrityTeam has an exciting career opportunity for a full-time Sr. Lead, Deployment Planning reporting to the Senior Manager, Program Management.

This position will be working onsite from Miami.

Position Summary:

The Sr. Lead, Deployment Planning leads the cross-functional planning and decision-making process to maximize the profitability and strategic value of Celebrity River Cruises' fleet. This role partners across commercial and operational functions to develop and execute the brand's deployment strategy, balancing stakeholder priorities to optimize where and how ship assets are deployed. The position drives strategic direction through quantitative analysis, market insights, itinerary development, and portfolio planning, while continuously enhancing deployment and itinerary management processes. Serving as the primary liaison across key departments, including Revenue Management, Finance, Product Development, Operations, Sales, Newbuild, and Port, Marine, and Deployment Execution teams, this role has significant influence over deployment decisions that shape the brand's performance and growth.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Drives the development of the near- and long-term strategic planning to maximize fleet profitability and guest experience for the Celebrity River Fleet
• Creates and maintains active deployment blockings and itinerary plans
• Leads quantitative analysis to support deployment and itinerary planning, including financial & profitability analysis, competitive benchmarking, and consumer analysis
• Leads qualitative analysis of market trends and competitive insights to support deployment planning
• Creates and delivers presentations to executive management team with deployment strategy recommendations
• Project manages end-to-end deployment and itinerary planning processes from macro deployment strategy through micro planning and deployment opening
• Supports Destination teams with profitability analysis and financial business modeling to evaluate prospective port and destination investment projects
• Research new destinations and itinerary options which support our brand specific strategic plans and utilize market research and guest feedback to maximize both market value and guest experience.
• Monitors performance of future Deployment performance to proactively identify opportunities
• Drives continuous improvement of planning and processes as well as the enhancement and creation of tools.

Financial and Quantitative responsibilities include:

• Program and itinerary net itinerary yield and profitability analysis, requires understanding of financial P&L and working cross functionally with input owners (revenue management, operations, finance, etc.)
• Ability to build multi-step models that build itinerary and blocking plans and summarize key stats (e.g., itinerary volumes, port volumes, passenger volumes)
• Competitive analysis to quantify deployment portfolios and metrics from competition that can inform long-term planning
• Consumer analysis, leveraging consumer survey inputs, satisfaction data, and other indicators to create wholistic view of portfolio guest appeal and experience performance

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• Six to eight years of business analytics, strategy, or financial analysis experience
• Prior experience in management consulting, high visibility corporate strategy, finance, or revenue management analytical roles is preferred
• Strong analytical skills, with proven ability to digest and synthesize large amounts of data and information into executive-level reports and documents.
• Robust problem solving and critical thinking skills, with proven ability to structure problems and independently drive towards solutions
• Experience leading cross-functional projects. Proven track record of collaborating effectively with all levels and functions in an organization.
• Pro-active and collaborative approach.
• Ability to manage, coach and develop others 

Physical Demands:

• 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, and stand, write, review. 

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.

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