Manager, Deployment Planning

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd•Miami, FL

20h

About The Position

Royal Caribbean Group’s Finance team is hiring a full-time Manager, Deployment Planning. The role focuses on improving deployment decision quality across Royal Caribbean, Celebrity Cruises, and Silversea by combining rigorous financial underwriting with competitive intelligence and performance insights. The position partners with brand teams throughout the planning process and develops an objective point of view for senior leadership, including the CFO and CEO. The manager evaluates deployment proposals from value-creation and risk-management perspectives, develops and challenges business cases, tests assumptions, assesses risks and opportunities, and communicates expected outcomes. The role also synthesizes competitive, commercial, consumer, market, and financial information; evaluates performance against expectations; and establishes repeatable learning processes to improve future decisions. The manager leads and mentors a Senior Analyst and works across teams to support clear, evidence-based decisions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Mathematics, or a related field.
At least 5 years of experience in strategic finance, investment analysis, revenue management, corporate strategy, consulting, underwriting, or another analytically intensive environment.
Strong financial modeling capabilities and command of core modeling principles, with the ability to independently build, evaluate, and challenge business cases.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree.
Deployment or network planning, cruise, travel, hospitality, revenue management, or similar experience.

Responsibilities

Underwrite deployment decisions across all three brands by building and challenging business cases, stress-testing forecasts and assumptions, assessing risks and opportunities, and quantifying an independent view of expected outcomes.
Synthesize financial, commercial, competitive, consumer, and market insights into a data-based perspective for Deployment Strategy and senior leadership, including the CFO and CEO.
Constructively challenge prevailing views when data supports a different conclusion.
Partner with Deployment Systems, Revenue Planning, Destination Development, Corporate Strategy, Revenue Management, and other teams to assess the competitive landscape and its implications for deployment.
Identify and communicate important competitive actions, opportunities, and risks with speed and clarity.
Evaluate deployment performance across brands, maintain decision scorecards, and lead post-mortems comparing actual results with expected outcomes.
Identify root causes of performance and build repeatable learning loops to improve future underwriting, forecasts, and accountability.
Prepare executive presentations, briefing materials, and written memos that explain analysis, recommendations, risks, and tradeoffs clearly.
Facilitate productive debate, influence without authority, and adapt communications to different audiences while maintaining objectivity and analytical integrity.
Manage and mentor a Senior Analyst, setting expectations for financial modeling, insight generation, communication, curiosity, and accountability.