Job Description

This position is on – site in our Royal Caribbean Headquarters 1050 Miami

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’s Onboard Deployment & Destination Strategy team has an exciting career opportunity for a full Senior Analyst, Deployment & Destination Strategy reporting to the Manager, Deployment Strategy & Projects.

This position is primarily responsible for leading deployment optimization efforts, with a strong focus on advancing automated deployment tools and enhancing reporting capabilities for the Deployment Strategy & Projects team. The senior analyst will play a major role in supporting destination development projects through strategy initiatives, volume forecasting, and tools. The Senior Analyst will collaborate to design, build, and optimize technology-driven solutions that enable faster, more agile deployment decisions and improve the accuracy and sophistication of volume projections supporting development project business cases.

This role plays a critical function during the transition to a more technology-driven operating model, driving innovation in how deployment planning is executed. The Senior Analyst will proactively identify opportunities to enhance analytical frameworks, improve process efficiency, and scale deployment capabilities through automation and advanced data solutions.

The individual in this role must demonstrate a willingness to learn PowerBI, Python and SQL, and will lead our destination development project work from a deployment perspective. They will operate with a high degree of autonomy while closely with management to shape the team’s analytical roadmap and project work. The Senior Analyst will partner cross-functionally with Data Science, Revenue Management, OBR, Deployment, and other internal teams to integrate complex data sets, influence decision-making, and deliver scalable, high-impact solutions that support strategic business priorities. This role is expected to own key workstreams, lead project forecasting, and drive continuous improvement across deployment planning processes.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead deployment optimization analyses, including scenario modeling and tradeoff evaluation, to support data-driven recommendations for destination and itinerary decisions.
• Enhance automation tools that streamline deployment planning, improve decision speed, and increase process scalability across the team.
• Develop and maintain analytical tools, dashboards, and reporting solutions that provide clear visibility into deployment performance, planning assumptions, and strategic opportunities.
• Use Python, SQL, and reporting platforms to solve complex business problems, automate recurring analyses, and deliver scalable data solutions for deployment planning.
• Integrate, validate, and manage data from multiple internal and external sources to build reliable datasets that support deployment decisions and destination development initiatives.
• Forecast passenger volume for future destinations and development projects, strengthening the business cases that support investment and deployment decisions.
• Lead the implementation of new analytical tools and planning solutions by coordinating testing, validating outputs, and helping drive adoption across deployment workflows.
• Document methodologies, data definitions, assumptions, and reporting logic to ensure consistency, transparency, and long-term scalability of analytical products.
• Partner closely with Deployment, Data Science, Revenue Management, OBR, and other internal stakeholders to gather requirements, validate outputs, and influence high-quality deployment decisions.

Performs other 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 and Education

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Economics, Analytics, Industrial Engineering or a related field.
• Experience developing dashboards, reporting solutions, and data visualizations using tools such as Power BI, Excel, or similar platforms.
• Proven analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights, scenario analyses, and business recommendations.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present technical concepts and analytical findings clearly to non-technical and executive audiences.
• Business acumen and the ability to connect analytical outputs to operational, financial, and strategic decision-making.

• Demonstrated initiative, curiosity, and continuous-improvement mindset, with a track record of identifying opportunities to enhance processes and analytical capabilities.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across functions, build credibility, and influence partners at multiple levels of the organization.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and stakeholder needs in a fast-paced environment.
• High attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy, quality, and consistency.
• Ability to thrive in a collaborative team environment while taking ownership of work and driving projects forward independently.

Working Conditions

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodations. The environment includes office location, and /or moving inside/outside the office. Responsibilities include traveling between numerous offices. A high noise level is possible if visiting shipboard or offsite locations.

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.

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.