Senior Manager, IT Newbuild Construction

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Royal Caribbean Group’s IT - Shipboard Newbuild Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Senior Manager, IT Newbuild Construction reporting to the Senior Director, IT Program Newbuild.

 

 

Position Summary

The Senior Manager, IT Newbuild Construction manages the portfolio of IT shipboard construction projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope, and within budget. The role includes developing and implementing IT strategies and initiatives that align with the overall business objectives. Managing and leading a team of IT professionals, providing guidance, support, and mentorship. Collaboration with other key departments and stakeholders to ensure seamless integration and delivery of IT scope as part of the New Build Start Up Team. Monitoring and reporting on the performance of IT projects, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing corrective actions as needed are also part of the responsibilities. Ensuring compliance with IT policies, procedures, and standards, managing the allocation of resources, including personnel, budget, and equipment to optimize project delivery, and staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies are also crucial.

 

With financial oversight of $50M-$100M in project budgets, this role ensures optimal resource allocation, cost efficiency, and adherence to financial and IT governance policies. The Senior Manager monitors project performance, identifies risks, and drives process improvements to enhance operational effectiveness. Additionally, they stay ahead of industry trends, ensuring IT infrastructure and solutions support Royal Caribbean’s evolving fleet and innovation goals.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Create collaborative partnership with the IT Shipboard Product Teams to influence and drive priority of New Technologies for New ships in construction.
• Manages the intake process of NB programs through the governance process, inclusive of IT projects and broader Royal Caribbean Group initiatives.
• Create a collaborative partnership among portfolio stakeholders that enables resource demand planning, budget management, initiative strategic alignment, change management, and project pipeline planning decisions.
• Works with IT Finance to support labor forecasting and reporting needs on projects and programs across the organization.
• Partners with other business departments (Marine, Logistics,  Newbuild, Engineering, Architecture) to engage and onboard needed resources in order to implement scope.
• Oversees portfolio artifacts, decisions, communications, metrics, and reporting.
• Manages $50-120M annual budget across multiple NB projects including budget expenditures, spend analysis, variances and developing controls and metrics for ensuring on-budget performance KPIs.
• Supports Delivery Leads, Program and Project Managers within portfolio with delivery and reviews to confirm adherence to Delivery Team methodology. 
• Develops and delivers program and project management training to improve consistency and quality in project delivery. 
• Develop and deploy project and program auditing strategy with a focus on visibility into trends, communication to steering committees, risk mitigation.
• Support product integration within RCG Fleets with insight contributions from within, and across, portfolio activities.
• Build strong relationships within Royal Caribbean Group to understand the business challenges and opportunities.
• Manages Executive Portfolio views and reports, provide timely and actionable stakeholder updates in reduce roadblocks and risks.
• Support the development, innovation and adherence to the Royal Caribbean Group’s IT Delivery Team methodologies including the support & creation of project management best practices, tools, and