Strategic Project Coordinator - Temporary 6 months

Where passion meets opportunity

Discover your journey into the extraordinary.

Your Purpose

Explora Journeys is a vibrant, cosmopolitan, European luxury brand, imagined in the heart of Swiss hospitality in Geneva. Leveraging our parent company MSC Group’s hundreds of years of maritime expertise, our fleet of six luxury ships (three currently in the pipeline) are being built and designed in a totally different and unique way that will transform and redefine the cruise experience, creating a category of its own, appealing to the next generation of luxury travellers. 

An exciting opportunity exists for a talented Strategic Project Coordinator to join our luxury travel brand Explora Journeys and support the Head of Business Strategy in the coordination, tracking, and successful delivery of strategic initiatives across the company. The role will work closely with internal teams, senior stakeholders, technology teams, and external partners to help translate business priorities into clear project plans, timelines, reporting routines, and follow-up actions. In addition, the role will contribute to the strategic insights function by supporting research, data gathering, analysis, and the synthesis of market, commercial, operational, and competitive intelligence into clear, actionable insights for decision-making. This role is based in the office out of our Headquarters in Geneva.

Your Impact

1. Project Coordination & Delivery Support
•    Assist in the planning, coordination, execution, and monitoring of strategic projects across departments, ensuring alignment with agreed timelines, budgets, and business objectives.
•    Support the Head of Business Strategy in translating strategic priorities into actionable project plans, milestones, deliverables, and follow-up actions.
•    Coordinate multiple project workstreams, tracking dependencies, risks, issues, and required inputs to help maintain delivery momentum.
2. Stakeholder Liaison & Cross-Functional Alignment
•    Act as a coordination point for cross-functional teams, supporting clear communication and alignment between departments, technology teams, external partners, and senior stakeholders.
•    Prepare agendas, meeting notes, action trackers, decision logs, and follow-up materials to ensure accountability and transparency across project workstreams.
•    Help identify bottlenecks, clarify ownership, and support timely follow-up with relevant teams to keep projects progressing.
3. Reporting, Documentation & Administrative Support
•    Support the strategic insights function through desk research, market scans, competitor benchmarking, commercial analysis, and the consolidation of internal and external data points.
•    Analyse data and information from multiple sources to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and key implications for strategic initiatives and business priorities.
•    Translate research findings and data analysis into clear summaries, presentations, dashboards, and recommendations that support leadership discussions and decision-making.
•    Support the preparation of project reports, presentations, dashboards, and briefing materials for leadership, project sponsors, and key stakeholders.
•    Maintain accurate project documentation, including timelines, status updates, risks, issues, decisions, and lessons learned.
•    Provide administrative support to the Head of Business Strategy, including preparing materials for meetings with senior leadership, internal stakeholders, and external partners.

Your Journey so far

• You hold a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, Marketing, Hospitality, Tourism, or a related field; an MBA or project management certification would be an advantage.
• You have at least 3 years of experience in project coordination, business support, PMO, consulting, hospitality, luxury travel, cruise, or another complex international environment.
• You understand the fundamentals of project planning, execution, monitoring, and reporting, and are comfortable working with project timelines, action trackers, and status updates.
• You bring strong analytical skills and are comfortable gathering, structuring, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information to support business insights and recommendations.
• You have experience or a strong interest in business research, market analysis, competitor benchmarking, and the synthesis of insights into concise, executive-ready outputs.

Your Essentials

• You are highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously while maintaining accuracy and follow-through under pressure.
• You communicate clearly and professionally, with strong interpersonal skills and the confidence to work with internal teams, senior stakeholders, and external partners.
• You are proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Outlook; advanced Excel skills and familiarity with data visualisation, business intelligence, or project management tools would be a plus.
• You bring a proactive, solution-oriented mindset and are comfortable navigating evolving priorities, ambiguity, and cross-functional environments.

At Explora Journeys, we are redefining luxury ocean travel — where discovery, well-being, and a deep respect for the seas come together in harmony. 
We seek passionate professionals who share our vision of a more immersive, transformative way to discover the world’s most inspiring destinations by sea.
Are you ready to turn your passion into something extraordinary? Join us at Explora Journeys, where an ocean of opportunities awaits. Your journey to the Ocean State of Mind starts here.