Manager, Corporate Strategy

Royal Caribbean Group; Miami, Northern (FL, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Caribbean Group in Miami seeks a Manager, Corporate Strategy to lead enterprise-wide initiatives with senior leaders across brands. You will oversee long-term growth, capital allocation, and strategic reviews, mentoring analysts.

Ideal candidate has growth strategy consulting background, knowledge of travel and hospitality, and ability to translate industry drivers into actionable plans for revenue and margin expansion.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or Economics.
• MBA preferred.
• 6+ years of capital markets experience; sellside, buyside, management consulting or corporate strategy experience is preferred.
• Experience with cruise, hotel, airline, restaurant, consumer, travel/OTA companies preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are required.
• Detailed knowledge of the competitive landscape of cruise line, consumer, and travel/hospitality industries is preferred.
• Strong leadership, motivation, and communication abilities.
• Comfortable presenting publicly and skilled at communicating complex ideas 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; 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.
• Work with AVP and SVP interacting with senior leadership across functions.
• Produce in-depth research and white papers on critical business drivers in travel and hospitality.
• Lead consumer research initiatives to inform consumer-led strategies.
• Provide content and ideas for growing the business financially and operationally.
• Identify key value drivers and benchmark performance against hospitality peers.
• Contribute insights to Executive Committee and planning processes for Board presentations.
• Create a roadmap to increase market value and trading multiples.
• Perform other duties as required.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Communication skills

Financial analysis

Public speaking

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or Economics

MBA preferred

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Power BI

Job description

Journey with us!

Combine your career goals and sense of adventure by joining our exciting team of employees. Royal Caribbean Group is pleased to offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, and excellent career development opportunities, each offering unique ways to explore the world.

The Royal Caribbean Group has an exciting career opportunity for a full-time Manager, Corporate Strategy reporting to the AVP, Corporate Strategy.

This position works on-site in Miami, Florida.

Position Summary:

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 immediatetermand 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 positionis responsible forleading 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 formergers and acquisitionsandjoint ventures, underwriting significantinvestments (organic and inorganic),working with brands and shared service areas on key strategic initiatives drivingrevenue or margin expansion,and other strategic projects that lead to profitable growth.

The Manager will plan, design, and successfully execute solutions thatimpactthe 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.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervise a team of1-3Senior 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 interactwith 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.
• Producein-depthresearch 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.
• Identifyand 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 inannualOperating and Strategic Planning process presented to the Board of Directors andinvestment community.
• Create a corporate value creation roadmap that helps us as an organization consistently increase our market value and trading multiples.
• Perform other duties asrequired.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to perform any other job-related duties assigned by their supervisor or management.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or Economics.
• MBApreferred.
• 6+ years of capitalmarketsexperience;sellside, buyside, management consulting or corporate strategy experience is preferred.
• Experience with cruise, hotel, airline, restaurant, consumer, travel/OTA companies preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills arerequired.
• Detailed knowledge of the competitive landscape of cruise line, consumer, and travel/hospitality industries is preferred.
• Strong leadership, motivation, and communication abilities.
• Comfortable presenting publicly and skilled at communicating complex ideas to senior leadership.
• Skilledin 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, withassociated financial, analytical, desktop software and communicationpackages;experience with Microsoft Power BI is preferred.

The position is not eligible for work authorization sponsorship.

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 Groupand each of its subsidiaries prohibit and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment.