Sr. Director, HR CEL Shipboard

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General Summary

The Sr. Director HR (Shipboard) is responsible for providing strategic HR business partnership and leadership that results in a high performing, engaged global shipboard workforce while meeting the rigorous and complex needs of highly compliance and operations driven shipboard environment. This role contributes to the health and success of the organization by having a deep understanding of the brand business priorities and deep knowledge of the complexity of shipboard operations to proactively collaborate with business leaders and COE partners to identify, develop, and implement talent strategies, workforce planning, forecasting, and staffing to meet the brand growth objectives.

Also responsible for the development, implementation, and sustainability of the organization-wide values and The Celebrity Way brand culture that ignite our team’s talent and engagement.

To be successful, this role must develop and sustain strategic and day-to-day consultative relationships with senior business leaders and their respective teams and act with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility as a trusted coach, advisor and subject matter expert on business and talent related issues and opportunities. The Sr. Director must also build a highly effective HRBP team and collaborate with VP of HR for CEI, Brand Leadership and HR COE partners in Manila HR Operations (Scheduling & Onboarding), Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Talent Management, HR Operations, HR Analytics, Compensation/Benefits, and other departments.

The Shipboard HR Sr Director and HRBP team are responsible for the functional execution for all HR programs and initiatives in a consistent and compliant manner across a global fleet. This team acts as main point of contact for Marine and Hotel division leaders related to all employee matters related to shipboard daily HR operations and HR strategy execution.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Looking 5+ years out- develops and implement in partnership with VP of HR & business leaders an overriding Shipboard HR strategy that positively supports the business, is at the leading edge of HR practices and ensures the function adds value, considering the high growth, complexity and compliance driven nature of a shipboard, global workforce.
• Dedicated focus to build out an effective HR operating model and effective business consulting to support daily shipboard operations, new builds, revitalizations, and the successful launch of increasing complex product offerings and global deployment.
• Provides strong voice and strategic direction to shipboard operations on the employee value proposition and complexities of crew life in a diverse and global workforce onboard.
• Is a Culture Champion and ensures the ongoing support and development of the Celebrity Way to continue to develop and reinforce the values and continue to evolve the program.
• Maintain good understanding of critical business issues relating to supported business units and ensure that the HR strategy continues to provide appropriate initiatives and results in desired outcomes.
• Actively participates in the Newbuilding planning and reporting process to ensure the startup is properly staffed and there is a minimal impact to the fleet because of the drawdown of talent.
• Provide strategic thought leadership to business leaders on workforce planning on talent and organizational impacts of business plans and decisions.
• Work with the business to identify the org structures, competencies, and processes needed to help the business run more effectively and grow according to projections and budget targets.
• Actively monitor any variances to CAM and understand the drivers. These situations would need to be reviewed with operations leaders to ensure the right decisions are made and the accountability of the financial l decisions are in place.
• Proactively identify trends and risk factors and provide solutions and recommendation to positively impact crew satisfaction, engagement, and productivity.
• Takes a leadership role in responding to all critical incidents involving crew safety, disaster recovery and compliance.
• Drive talent management and succession planning activities within the business resulting in healthy shipboard pipeline and career progression to meet growth objectives. Will pro-actively partner with the business and COE partners in Talent Acquisition, Talent Management and Learning & Development to accomplish these goals.
• Implement rigor and focus on workforce skill, capabilities and planning to meet brand growth objectives- including closely partnering with Talent Acquisition, Scheduling, Onboarding and HR Operations functions to develop brand specific recruiting and retention strategies and support processes to ensure that the most effective sourcing and selection strategies are utilized and meeting CEI brand defined PAR levels, crew nationality mix, skill mix, etc.
• Ensure compliance with local legal…