Senior Analyst, Commercial Strategy

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.

Royal Caribbean Group’s Celebrity Cruises Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Lead, Integrated Strategic Planning reporting to the Director, Integrated Strategic Planning.

This position will be working onsite from Miami.

In this position, you will function as an integral part of the Celebrity Cruises Product Development Team, and more specifically the Commercial Strategy team. The role will use analysis to guide strategy by understanding gaps, performance, and insights to assist in the recommendation and justification of a portfolio of products to be developed as well as recommendations on profit and guest experience maximization.

This role will significantly influence decision making related to brand strategy, new revenue streams, Newbuilds, Fleet Modernization, Private Destinations, and other Fleetwide strategies focused on maximizing total enterprise value and the guest experience. This role will support business case modeling and influence cross functional teams to gain alignment and buy‑in from executive leadership for initiatives focused on delivering the long‑term financial, marketability, and strategic goals of Celebrity Cruises.

The ideal candidate will possess a combination of financial modeling, strategic and analytical skills, and complex problem solving as well as strong communication, collaboration, and influencing skills.

• Maintain financial models for brand, product, and commercial initiatives by evaluating data and determining optimal spend to accomplish company goals.
• Partner cross-functionally to develop P&L statements for new initiatives and benchmark to existing experiences. Leverage analytics, logic, and reasoning to identify the strengths and opportunities of alternative solutions and conclusions.
• Partner with Finance to develop, submit, and monitor capital requests to secure funding for brand strategy and innovation projects, including building and substantiating business cases, and once approved, tracking financial spend and updating forecasts in partnership with brand finance and newbuild finance.
• Lead ad‑hoc analyses to guide decision‑making on design of future strategies and products by identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop options and implement solutions.
• Partner cross‑functionally with newbuild, hotel operations, revenue management, onboard revenue, deployment strategy, product development, and brand/corporate finance to develop, and consistently update, reasonable assumptions based on performance benchmarks.
• Develop presentations and business case memos that articulate complex details into simple, persuasive, and thoughtful stories for executive leadership alignment to drive decision making.
• Foster collaboration within a cross‑functional team, where cross‑discipline dynamic communication is paramount to success by actively listening to various perspectives and bringing teams together to persuade and reconcile differences.
• Strong understanding of marketing principles to support management on strategic initiatives and guide analysis.

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, marketing, finance, or another relevant field of study
• 3+ years of experience in business, strategy, analysis, brand/product marketing, or another relevant field
• Advanced experience using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, including intricate knowledge not only of advanced formulas (such as index‑match), but also Excel problem…