Carnival Cruise Lines

Summer Intern Demand Strategy & Fleet Deployment Miami, Fla.

Job Description:

Carnival Cruise Lines ("CCL") is a branded division within Carnival Corporation, a publicly traded company founded in 1972 and headquartered in Miami. Carnival Corporation has over 90,000 employees worldwide operating 100 ships and produces over $15 billion in revenues. At any given time, there are over 270,000 people cruising with Carnival. Carnival Corporation owns a number of different cruise lines and has become the largest corporation in the cruise industry. Carnival's portfolio of 10 leading cruise brands includes Carnival Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, and Seabourn in North America; P&O Cruises and Cunard Line in the United Kingdom; AIDA in Germany; Costa Cruises in southern Europe and P&O Cruises in Australia.

The Summer Intern will be a (temporary) core member of the Demand Strategy and Fleet Deployment team. The Summer program will be project based. Projects will be discussed with the intern and will leverage his/her strengths. Some examples of projects include: finding opportunities to grow and harvest North American cruise demand for Carnival Cruise Lines, financial analysis of deployment decisions, competitive analysis and scenario building, deployment optimization based on profitability, new market assessments, deployment design, building insights based consumer research, etc.

Collaborate with other team members on assignments and special projects, for example:

Integrated assessment of demand by region in North America:

Ongoing demand analytics and reporting

Identify and prioritize demand improvement opportunities in current business (by product, homeport, region, etc.)

Analytics and recommendations on marketing investment prioritization to grow demand

Fleet Deployment:

Deployment economics & performance by ship, program, itinerary mix

Deployment optimization based on profitability

Organize knowledge base related to itineraries, destinations, etc

Projects will vary and the candidate will have the opportunity to team up with different members of our group. This role involves collaboration with Consumer research, Marketing, Sales, Revenue Management, Port Operations, Nautical/Marine Operations. He/she will creatively utilize internal and external data sources to drive business decisions.

Perform other job related functions as assigned.

Requirements: BS in Business, Computer Science or Engineering; MBA or Graduate Degree in Management Information Systems, Quantitative Methods is a plus.

The ideal candidate must demonstrate excellent analytical, interpersonal and strategic planning skills as well as the ability to work across all levels of the organization

Quick learner, curious, and inquisitive

Creative, independent thinker, risk-taker, thinks "out of the box"

Entrepreneurial, high potential, overachiever

Forward thinkers/planners who can begin with a question, build a roadmap to the answer, obtain necessary data, adapt and evolve the roadmap during process, and create actionable conclusions from analytical process

Detail-oriented, accurate

Self-motivated, relentless in finding better solutions, desire to drive change

Strong team player, cooperative, collaborative, diplomatic to work with other people

Clear, concise written and oral communication

Professional posture in interfacing with others

Organized, can set priorities and communicate with managers, can flexibly move between projects

Proficiency in spreadsheet and database tools a must: Excel, Powerpoint, Word, Access, SQL/Oracle

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