Manager, Product Innovation

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The Royal Caribbean Group’s Royal Caribbean International brand has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Manager, Product Innovation on the Private Destination Development Team reporting to the Senior Manager, Product Innovation.

This position will work onsite in Miami, Florida

Position Summary:

The Manager, Product Innovation will lead a variety of strategic projects and initiatives related to experiences that deliver the best vacations for the Royal Caribbean International guests. In this role, you will develop strategies that directly respond to consumer insights, white space opportunities, and business needs in order to define the future of the vacation experience for the Royal Caribbean brand. This entails the ability to lead and influence functional teams and executive leadership across the organization to gain alignment and buy-in is critical to success in this role. You will need to possess a combination of strategic, analytical, and creative thinking skills. Additionally, strong written and verbal communications skills including storytelling and presentation abilities are essential. This role requires the ability to direct teams by demonstrating and fostering a culture of excellence rooted in a data-driven and guest-focused approach.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops guest-centric product strategies that are grounded in consumer insights and ladder up to the Royal Caribbean brand promise.
• Develops concepts that enhance the guest experience and creates meaningful differentiation.
• Leads the product innovation process to define the Brand’s approach, strategy, idea generation, organizational buy-in, and final concepts for new guest experiences.
• Partners with the Insights and Analytics Teams to develop research plans that result in uncovering new, relevant insights.
• Analyzes diverse data sources to make data driven recommendations for strategies and concepts.
• Partners cross functionally to gain alignment on strategic vision/direction and concepts.
• Creates presentations showcasing the strategy and concepts to share recommendations and gain buy-in from senior management and CEO.
• Builds and develops the critical thinking, strategic thinking, and creativity of team members.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field of study required, MBA highly preferred.
• 5+ years of management consulting, strategy, product innovation, or CPG experience.
• Great passion for hospitality and guest-centric industries.
• Must be a quick learner, highly driven, highly accountable, very comfortable with ambiguity, and quick to adjust to shifting priorities.
• Strategic thinking and critical problem solving.
• Ability to apply strong analytical, conceptual, and strategic thinking.
• Ability to analyze data and research results to make recommendations.
• Ability to grasp the complexities of the business and to effectively translate business and guest needs into a cohesive strategy.
• Experience developing concepts that meet strategic objectives.
• Ability to develop innovative ideas and creative solutions.
• Willingness to take personal initiative.
• High sense of accountability and ownership.
• Ability to assemble, lead, and influence cross functional teams to develop strategies that include input and buy-in from all stakeholders.
• Proven ability to effectively interact with all levels of the organization.
• Experience briefing and leading agencies to deliver strategic projects.
• Communication skills and standards of excellence.
• Strong storytelling and presentation skills, experience presenting to executive leadership.
• Strong balance of strategic thinking and creativity with a problem-solving mindset.
• Attention to detail and follow-through.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong business acumen.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively at the senior-most executive levels of a company.

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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