Manager, Corporate Strategy

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd•Miami, FL

23h•Onsite

About The Position

The Manager of Corporate Strategy leads initiatives by partnering with leaders across Royal Caribbean Group on the most critical challenges facing the business, looking beyond the immediate term and focusing on issues outside the day-to-day operations and opportunities with potential for long-term growth and value creation. This team is enterprise-wide in scope, across all brands and the full dimension of business issues. This position is responsible for leading multiple high-priority initiatives simultaneously, while helping develop and mentor direct reports (including Leads, Sr. Analysts, and Analysts). Initiatives include long-term growth strategy, capital allocation, total shareholder returns analyses, strategic reviews, consumer insights and customer data analysis, commercial due diligence for mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, underwriting significant investments (organic and inorganic), working with brands and shared service areas on key strategic initiatives driving revenue or margin expansion, and other strategic projects that lead to profitable growth. The Manager will plan, design, and successfully execute solutions that impact the business and deliver results, while building strong relationships across the organization. The ideal individual for this role will have growth strategy consulting experience, understand the greater travel, consumer and hospitality industries, and has the energy and intellectual curiosity to unearth the key value drivers of world-class companies. This individual will have experience linking industry and financial drivers across the hospitality space and is expected to produce in-depth and insightful research to help us more effectively capitalize on business opportunities and mitigate key business risks.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or Economics.
6+ years of capital markets experience; sellside, buyside, management consulting or corporate strategy experience is preferred.
Strong written and verbal communication skills are required.
Strong leadership, motivation, and communication abilities.
Comfortable presenting publicly and skilled at communicating complex ideas to senior leadership.
Skilled in analyzing information, problems, situations, practices, or procedures.
Ability to analyze information and form conclusions to summarize and present to senior leadership.
Experience with corporate and industry analytics and research techniques.
Excellent interpersonal skills to communicate across business units with all levels of management and employees.
Proven working knowledge of personal computers, with associated financial, analytical, desktop software and communication packages

Nice To Haves

MBA preferred.
Experience with cruise, hotel, airline, restaurant, consumer, travel/OTA companies preferred.
Detailed knowledge of the competitive landscape of cruise line, consumer, and travel/hospitality industries is preferred.
experience with Microsoft Power BI is preferred.

Responsibilities

Supervise a team of 1-3 Senior Analysts, and/or Analysts on long-term strategy initiatives at the enterprise level and in support of our existing brands.
Work closely with AVP, Corporate Strategy, and SVP, Corporate Strategy & Development, who interact with senior leadership levels across multiple departments, including the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Committee, Corporate Strategy/Development, Accounting, and other branded Officers throughout the organization.
Produce in-depth research and white papers on topics and critical business drivers across the consumer and travel/hospitality industries.
Lead consumer research initiatives in collaboration with Consumer Insights and other areas of the business to inform consumer-led strategies, both to support initiatives within the core and in the broader vacationing market.
Provide content and idea generation for how we as a company can take our business, both financially and operationally, to the next level.
Identify and work with Corporate Planning and Corporate Strategy to socialize the key value drivers of our business and regularly benchmark our performance versus hospitality peers.
Contribute key insights to the Executive Committee, Corporate Planning, Corporate Strategy, and Brand Strategy and Finance teams. These insights will be incorporated in annual Operating and Strategic Planning process presented to the Board of Directors and investment community.
Create a corporate value creation roadmap that helps us as an organization consistently increase our market value and trading multiples.
Perform other duties as required.