Director, Facilities Management

Director, Facilities Management

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The Royal Caribbean Group’s Operations Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Director, Facilities Management reporting to the Sr Director, Workplace Solutions.

The position is onsite and based in Miami, Florida

The position is also not eligible for work authorization sponsorship.

The Director, Facilities Management reports to the Sr Director of Global Facilities Management and provides enterprise leadership for corporate real estate projects, transaction coordination, workplace planning, and portfolio optimization across the global property footprint. This role is accountable for translating business strategy, workforce demand, and portfolio priorities into executable real estate and workplace plans that support operational performance, employee experience, cost discipline, and long-term organizational growth.

The Director leads complex capital and occupancy initiatives from strategy, due diligence, and business case development through design, construction, occupancy, and closeout, ensuring alignment with financial, contractual, operational, and stakeholder expectations. This leader also oversees global space planning for all properties, manages and develops a team of three space planning professionals, and serves as a senior liaison to external real estate consultants, brokers, landlords, architects, contractors, and advisory partners.

The ideal candidate is a seasoned corporate real estate and workplace leader with deep experience managing complex portfolios, influencing senior stakeholders, leading cross-functional teams, mitigating commercial risk, and establishing scalable governance, reporting, and decision-making frameworks in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.

• Set the strategic direction for corporate real estate projects, workplace planning, and space utilization across the global portfolio, ensuring alignment with business priorities, workforce plans, and long-range facilities strategy.
• Lead complex, high-visibility capital projects, occupancy initiatives, restacks, relocations, tenant improvements, and workplace transformation efforts from concept through execution and closeout.
• Develop business cases, scenario plans, portfolio recommendations, and executive-ready materials to support real estate investment decisions, lease events, space optimization, and capital prioritization.
• Oversee global space planning for all properties, including capacity planning, headcount forecasting, occupancy analytics, workplace standards, neighborhood planning, restacks, and utilization strategies.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of three space planning professionals, establishing clear priorities, performance expectations, operating rhythms, service standards, and accountability measures.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders, HR, Finance, Legal, Procurement, Facilities, Security, IT, and other stakeholders on real estate strategy, project impacts, occupancy planning, cost implications, and risk tradeoffs.
• Act as the primary business liaison with external real estate consultants, brokers, landlords, architects, engineers, contractors, and advisory partners to coordinate transaction support, market input, project delivery, and portfolio planning.
• Establish and maintain project and portfolio governance, including decision frameworks, reporting cadence, risk registers, milestone tracking, budget controls, escalation protocols, and executive updates.
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