Associate, Program

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Position Summary :

The function of the Program Associate is to provide assistance and support to the Program Manager / Asst. Program Manager with the management of the New Generation program of Newbuilds, special projects, or revitalization and refurbishment of vessels. The Program Associate consults with internal clients in various departments (shore side and shipboard) to gather, analyze, and report data for recommended courses of action. Projects assigned are typically top priority, high profile, and multi-departmental initiatives for the organization and thus require continuous communication and interaction in a fast-paced environment with the Program Manager / Asst. Program Manager. Manage all aspects of project planning, tracking, and status reporting.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Project management coordination to support the development, tracking / monitoring and reporting of several small to medium size special projects from inception to completion, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery of project outputs.
• Consults with design and brand teams to ensure executive direction and feedback are effectively implemented into the project.
• Interfaces with the RCCL European site office and shipyard teams to ensure alignment on executive deliverables.
• Utilizes project management tools and techniques to develop and maintain project scope.
• Administrates team meetings (attendees, agenda, and official minutes) and drafts reporting of project status for executive review.
• Plans, coordinates, and structures project management workshops, ensuring clear objectives are established, executive involvement is secured, and agreed-upon deliverables are met.
• Consults with client to ascertain and define need or problem to obtain data required for solution.
• Conducts analysis & recommends solutions, based on gathered insight, to continuously improve methods and procedures in ways-of-working and utilizing best practices.
• Performs vendor consultations / assessments to monitor progress and ascertain and define problems and obtain solutions.
• Communicates effectively with outside vendors / contractors to ensure contracted deliverables are met in a timely fashion.
• Facilitates risk reviews and ensures adherence to the risk-centric ways of working for Miami-based workstreams.
• Aligns risk status and provides feedback on risk criticality as it relates to the entire project scope.
• Develops processing methods and practices for communicating project status to extended teams and executive management.
• Supports project teams in collection of quantitative / qualitative statistics, performs basic numerical analysis (financial, statistical).
• 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.

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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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