Manager, Deployment Planning

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Royal Caribbean Group’s Finance team has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Manager, Deployment Planning reporting to the Deployment Planning.

The Opportunity:

Deployment is one of the company’s most consequential value-creation levers, shaping revenue, profitability, competitive positioning, and long-term growth across Royal Caribbean, Celebrity Cruises, and Silversea. As the Manager / Senior Lead of Deployment Underwriting, Intelligence & Insights, you will help the company make better deployment decisions by bringing independent financial rigor, relevant competitive intelligence, and disciplined performance insights to the decision process. You will work closely with the brand teams throughout the planning process offering thought partnerships and analysis recommendations. In parallel you will developan objective point of view on behalf of RCG for senior leadership, including the CFO and CEO, and communicate complex analysis in a way that enables productive debate and clear action. The objective of this role is to improve deployment decision quality by combining rigorous underwriting with relevant competitive and performance intelligence.

You Will...

Underwrite deployment decisions and develop an independent point of view: Evaluate deployment opportunities through both a value creation and risk management lens. Underwrite proposed deployment across all three brands by building and challenging business cases, stress-testing forecasts and assumptions, assessing risks and opportunities, and quantifying an independent and unbiased view of expected outcomes. Synthesize financial, commercial, competitive, consumer, and market insights to develop a clear and data-based perspective shared both with Deployment Strategy as well as with the CFO and CEO. Constructively challenge prevailing views when the data supports a different conclusion.

Drive competitive intelligence and deployment insights: Partner with Deployment Systems, Revenue Planning, Destination Development, Corporate Strategy, Revenue Management, and other teams to develop a forward-looking view of the competitive landscape and its implications for deployment decisions. Your role is to synthesize these inputs to identify implications, opportunities, and risks for deployment planning, and to identify and communicate important competitive actions and their potential implications with speed and clarity.

Generate performance insights and institutionalize learning: Evaluate deployment performance across brands to determine what is working, what is not working, and why. Maintain deployment decision scorecards and lead post-mortems that compare actual results with expected outcomes, identify root causes, and clarify what would need to change to improve performance. Build repeatable learning loops that strengthen future underwriting, increase confidence in deployment forecasts, reinforce accountability, and ensure lessons from prior decisions are carried forward.

Communicate with clarity and influence: Tell compelling stories supported by data across underwriting, competitive intelligence, and performance insights. Develop concise executive presentations, briefing materials, and written memos that make the analysis, recommendation, risks, and tradeoffs easy to understand. Facilitate productive debate, influence without authority, and adapt the message to the audience while maintaining objectivity and analytical integrity.

Lead and develop talent: Manage and mentor a Senior Analyst, setting a high bar for financial modeling, insight generation, communication, curiosity, and accountability. Foster an environment in which team members (both direct report and partners) are expected to ask thoughtful questions, develop a point of view, and continuously raise the quality of decision-making.

You Are...

Analytical and intellectually curious: You enjoy solving complex problems and understanding the why behind business performance. You ask thoughtful questions, seek additional context, and look beyond surface-level explanations to uncover meaningful insights.

Skilled at connecting the dots: You synthesize financial performance, competitive intelligence, consumer behavior, market dynamics, and strategic context into a coherent story. You see patterns and relationships others may miss and translate them into actionable implications.

An independent thinker and a trusted challenger: You develop your own point of view and respectfully challenge prevailing assumptions when the evidence supports a different conclusion. You use facts, analysis, and insight to facilitate productive debate in a way that strengthens both decisions and relationships.

An exceptional storyteller: You transform complex analysis into clear, convincing narratives. Whether through PowerPoint, an executive briefing, or a written memo, you communicate with precision, credibility, and impact.

Proactive and enterprise-minded: You are proactive, resourceful, and willing to roll up your sleeves to move from an ambiguous question to a decision-ready recommendation. You build strong partnerships across teams, influence without authority, and develop talent through clear expectations, coaching, and a shared commitment to better enterprise outcomes.

Future-forward: You see AI and emerging technology as force multipliers for analysis to improve speed, depth, repeatability of analysis, not substitutes for judgment. You experiment thoughtfully, keep humans in the loop, and maintain accountability for the conclusions you draw.

You Have...

• A bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Mathematics, or a related field; an advanced degree is a plus.
• 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 a command of core modeling principles, with the ability to independently build, evaluate, and challenge business cases.
• Deployment or network planning, cruise, travel, hospitality, revenue management, or similar experience.

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!

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