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Royal Caribbean Group

Director, Architectural Design

Royal Caribbean Group, Miami, Florida, us, 33222


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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 & benefits package, and excellent career development opportunities, each offering unique ways to explore the world.Position Summary:The Design Director provides a primary leadership role and expertise to the new building projects as assigned by the EVP of New Buildings. In doing so, the incumbent continually directs the activities of architects, designers, and computer aided design professionals to achieve brand specific design concept goals for the various brands. Also serves as a conduit of information and intelligence from the corporation and/or the brand to the design staff, and outside architects/design firms, ensuring the success of these groups.Essential Duties and Responsibilities:Directs, develops and maintains entire overall design process for all assigned projects, forming and maintaining brand specific design concepts.Fosters and leads highly collaborative forums used in developing total brand conceptual program per ship and class.Evaluates the talent and effort of architects, designers and consultants.Communicates brand concepts to global building site offices and shipyards.Presents large to small-scale presentations at executive level and other groups.Analyzes and compares statistics, ratios, and other metrics of various ships within our fleet and across our competition.Creates planning models that support the organization's mission and value.Confers with peer management in Newbuilding and other key departments.Evaluates monthly and quarterly results.Attracts, trains, grows, rewards, and retains diverse talent.Exercises the usual authority of a director concerning staffing, performance appraisals, promotions, salary recommendations and terminations.Management of multimillion dollar projects in range of $1.5 billion or more for newbuilds.Works with senior management budgetary planning.Oversees and is accountable for yard building cost complexity balancing.Qualifications:Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Interior Design or Architecture required; Architectural background preferred. MBA preferred.Minimum requirement of 15 years’ experience within design industry, preferred within mid to large high-end hospitality environment.Proven management experience with direct subordinate manager(s) and staff.Ability to travel internationally or domestically 25% of the time.Knowledge and Skills:Excellent interpersonal skills with strong ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management and employees.Requires a high level of written and verbal communication skills.Requires strong teamwork and collaborative leadership skills.Possesses self-motivation with ability to mobilize people and resources to action.Working knowledge of personal computers with associated presentation, communication, and financial software packages.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!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.

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