Lead, Integrated Business Planning

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd • Miami, FL

89d

About The Position

The Lead of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) functions as an integral part of the Finance Transformation Hub team. The role will promote best in class IBP practice as well as utilization of data to create insights to guide our strategy and provide recommendations to optimize existing processes and generate value. The role will be required to collaborate with multiple departments including Supply Chain, Accounting/Finance, AI/Data Science, and multiple program/project teams. This role will collaboratively influence decision making related to strategy, operational efficiency, and IBP strategy execution. In addition, the role will be managing the demand/supply forecast tool, metrics reporting, database management, data modeling and visualization tools for the department.

Requirements

• Four-year Bachelor's or equivalent required; MBA preferred; 7+ years related business analysis / data science / finance / strategy experience and/or training.
• Candidate must possess strong written and oral communication skills and be able to work effectively with all levels of personnel.
• Advanced Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills are required.
• Advanced MS Power BI and Oracle SQL required.
• Understanding of backend systems and data architecture (Oracle, SQL Server, Azure Data Studio, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of the cruise industry preferred.
• Leadership: Ability to influence, inspire and develop a team while driving team culture of inclusion, engagement, and self-starting.
• Foundational Knowledge: Strong understanding of project management, operations, marketing, and finance principles to lead management on short and long-term strategies.
• Complex Problem Solving: Ability to identify the root cause of complex problems, develop options and recommend solutions.
• Analytical: Data combined with critical thinking to identify strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities.
• Presentation: Strong aptitude to present complex data analyses into simple, concise, and engaging stories that bring insights to the forefront using Power Point.
• Results-driven: Ability to complete tasks efficiently and thoroughly by meticulously ensuring data and insights presented are accurate.
• Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are communicating and taking time to understand points being made.
• Negotiating and Persuasion: Ability to bring others together to try to reconcile differences and persuading others to your point of view.
• Financial Modeling: Evaluating data, determining optimal way to spend to accomplish company goals.
• Technical Skills: Intermediate to advanced SQL, Power BI, Tableau, or other Data Visualization tool, Advanced Excel and PowerPoint required.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the oversight, performance, coaching, and career development of a small team potentially including analysts who support integrated business planning.
• Passionate about IBP centric analytics, deriving insights, and driving value creation in the enterprise.
• Working in coordination with stakeholders, establishing alternative scenarios, evaluating financial impacts, maintaining market models, applying statistical tools and data sets, and ensuring that customer requirements are integrated into a single business demand/supply plan.
• Lead projects to drive improvements in supply chain performance as a project and change manager.
• Lead the development of Power BI business content for reporting purposes.
• Manage our journey to continuously make data driven decisions by helping create viable business intelligence products such as intuitive visual dashboards, while being cognizant on repeatability, scalability, and automation.
• Explore new ways to gather data internally and externally that can assist with future innovation.
• Support data analytics required to provide Brand Finance teams required forecast information.
• Development and recommendation of the financial forecast as it pertains to IBP.
• Performs other duties as required.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Excellent career development opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees