Sr. Lead, Deployment Planning

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd•Miami, FL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Journey with us! Combine your career goals and sense of adventure by joining our incredible team of employees at Royal Caribbean Group. We are proud to offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, and excellent career development opportunities, each offering unique ways to explore the world. 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 Celebrity Team 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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree required
6 to eight years of business analytics, strategy, or financial analysis experience
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

Nice To Haves

Prior experience in management consulting, high visibility corporate strategy, finance, or revenue management analytical roles is preferred

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.
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