Strategic Data Solutions Advisor

Strategic Data Solutions Advisor

Contract Role

Senior Strategic Advisor – Data, Innovation & Experience Transformation

We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior Strategic Advisor to work directly with the Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Data Officer (CDO), and Chief Innovation Officer (CInO) of a global enterprise. This pivotal role will serve as the connective tissue between technology, data, and business leadership—helping drive the company's most important strategic data and digital transformation initiatives.

This individual will play a critical role in shaping the data and insights strategy across the company's Parks, Experiences, and Cruise Lines (PECL) business—an ecosystem deeply centered around people, experiences, and storytelling. The Senior Strategic Advisor will help translate rich data and analytics into actionable insights that enhance guest experience, operational efficiency, and commercial performance across physical and digital touchpoints.

• Act as a trusted advisor to the CIO, CDO, and CInO, providing thought leadership on enterprise data, innovation, and customer experience strategies.
• Collaborate closely with business VPs, Directors, and functional leaders to align data-driven strategies with enterprise experience objectives.
• Drive cross-functional alignment between technology, operations, and creative teams to ensure that data and insights directly enhance guest satisfaction and loyalty.
• Translate business priorities in parks, resorts, and cruise operations into measurable data and analytics initiatives.
• Provide executive recommendations to influence long-term investment decisions, operating models, and transformation roadmaps.

• Shape and advance the enterprise's data and insights vision, ensuring that every guest interaction, operational process, and digital moment is informed by intelligent data use.
• Partner with data and analytics teams to strengthen the organization's data architecture, governance, and intelligence frameworks.
• Identify opportunities to monetize insights, optimize pricing and yield management, and personalize guest experiences through predictive analytics, AI, and ML.
• Help establish experience data hubs and cross-domain analytics capabilities that enable seamless storytelling from data—bridging guest behavior, operational trends, and sentiment.

• Champion experience innovation by leveraging emerging technologies (AI, digital twins, IoT, real-time analytics) to elevate park and cruise experiences.
• Collaborate with creative, operations, and digital experience teams to embed data-informed decision-making into every layer of the experience lifecycle.
• Drive innovation councils, ideation workshops, and proof-of-value initiatives to pilot next-generation guest and operational capabilities.
• Serve as the strategic conduit between technology innovation and experiential design.

• Lead or support enterprise transformation initiatives across multiple business units, ensuring alignment to corporate priorities.
• Establish structured governance, milestone tracking, and performance measurement frameworks for strategic programs.
• Oversee delivery of executive communications, dashboards, and transformation scorecards for stakeholders.

• Partner with senior leaders across technology, parks, experiences, cruise, marketing, and operations to ensure cohesive execution.
• Represent the CIO / CDO / CInO organizations in internal and external forums as a key voice for data‑influence, aligning multiple stakeholders toward shared goals through insight-driven storytelling and executive-level communication.

• Years of progressive experience in enterprise data strategy, digital transformation, or innovation leadership within global or large-scale organizations.
• Proven experience partnering with or advising C-level executives on data, analytics, and business transformation initiatives.
• Deep understanding of data ecosystems (cloud, analytics, AI / ML) and how they apply to guest…