Manager, Corporate Strategy

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The Royal Caribbean Group has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Manager of Corporate Strategy reporting to the AVP of 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 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, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, underwriting significant deals, 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 substantial capital markets 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 of 3-5 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, who interacts 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. This intelligence gathering initiative is intended to drive culture change whereby we are collectively more outward looking as an 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 the hospitality peers.
• Contribute key insights to the Executive Committee, Corporate Planning, Corporate Strategy, and Brand 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.
• Lead our capital allocation process, including indirect supervision of our long-range model and directly supervising analyses around company valuation, growth, total shareholder returns, and value creation.
• Perform other ad hoc duties as required.

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.
• Master’s degree or CFA 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 is 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; experience with Microsoft Power BI is preferred.

We know there's a lot to consider. As you go through the application process, our recruiters will be glad to provide guidance, and more relevant details to answer any additional questions. Thank you again for your interest in Royal Caribbean Group. We'll hope to see you onboard soon!

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

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