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Position Summary :
The Manager, Customer and Lifecycle Marketing (Internal Title - Senior Lead, Customer and Lifecycle Marketing) leads the Digital Commerce communications function, converting strategy into action across CRM and web channels for international markets. This role drives cross-functional alignment and collaborates with a team of channel managers responsible for executing CRM and web programs across the full prospect, pre-cruise, and post-cruise guest journey. This role is responsible for translating communications strategy into operational plans, driving initiative delivery across channel teams, and ensuring all CRM and web programs are aligned to commercial priorities, grounded in data, and consistently optimized for guest engagement and revenue performance across international markets.
The Manager, Ecommerce Communication Strategy drives cross-functional alignment with Tech & Development, international market leads, business intelligence, paid media, creative, and commercial teams to ensure communications are integrated and commercially aligned across all markets. This position reports to the Director, Digital Commerce & Experience.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities :
• Lead the translation of the Digital Commerce communications strategy into operational plans, channel briefs, and delivery priorities across CRM and web programs for international markets.
• Drive the Digital Commerce communications strategy across CRM and web channels, ensuring initiatives are sequenced, resourced, and delivered in alignment with commercial booking windows and business objectives.
• Lead the application of audience segmentation direction and content frameworks across channel plans, ensuring CRM and web programs are informed by behavioral data, performance insights, and regional market needs.
• Drive cross-functional alignment with Tech & Development, international market leads, commercial teams, revenue management, and creative partners to ensure communications initiatives are integrated, commercially relevant, and regionally adapted.
• Coordinate cross-functional workstreams with Growth & Measurement, Creative/Content, Commercial, and International Markets teams, proactively surfacing dependencies and ensuring seamless delivery across initiatives.
• Lead cross-channel integration between CRM and web programs, ensuring consistent messaging, sequencing, and guest experience across all digital touchpoints throughout the guest journey.
• Oversee the delivery and performance of CRM programs across email (Tactical, Pre-Cruise, Engagement, Lifecycle), ensuring channel plans are on brief, on schedule, and optimized against performance targets.
• Oversee the delivery and performance of web merchandising and digital experience programs, including targeted offers, homepage promotions, and cross-sell and upsell placements across international markets.
• Oversee the pre-cruise communications program across CRM and web, driving execution of ancillary product remerchandising, cross-sells, upsells, and engagement offers to support revenue goals.
• Lead real-time interpretation of performance results, driving dynamic plan adjustments that maximize what is working and course-correct what is not.
• Lead competitive analysis and performance reporting, translating channel and market insights into forward-looking recommendations for program and strategy refinement.
Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills :
• Bachelor's degree in a related field required. Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum of 8–10 years of progressive experience in digital marketing, CRM, or ecommerce communications.
• Minimum of 5 years of lifecycle communications experience, including email marketing, audience segmentation, and personalization.
• Minimum of 3–5 years of experience leading teams in a matrixed environment, with demonstrated ability to develop managers and drive cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience working in or with international markets preferred; travel, hospitality, cruise, or consumer subscription brand experience a plus.
• Strong working knowledge of CRM and email marketing platforms, marketing automation, and web channel operations sufficient to lead channel teams and drive program quality.
• Experience with Adobe Marketing Cloud products (Adobe Campaign, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Audience Manager, Adobe Target) or equivalent enterprise martech stack.
• Proficiency in interpreting channel performance data, audience segmentation outputs, and A/B testing results to drive optimization decisions across programs.
• Experience with project and program management tools such as Jira, Confluence, or Asana; ability to coordinate cross-channel workstreams and drive delivery governance across multiple teams.
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and marketing scripting languages (e.g., AMPscript) to enable effective collaboration with technical and production teams.
• Strong people leadership skills with demonstrated ability to lead, align, and develop a team of channel managers across multiple functional disciplines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present initiative performance and strategic recommendations clearly to senior leadership.
• Highly detail-oriented with strong organizational and project management skills; advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Self-starter able to lead through ambiguity, coordinate competing priorities across teams, and maintain delivery quality in fast-moving, high-volume environments.
• Energy and enthusiasm to drive results; must be self-motivated, proactive, poised, and flexible.
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!
No im migration sp onsorship is offered.
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