Carnival UK

PR Manager

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Job ID 11588 Date posted 09/10/2025 Date closes 23/10/2025 City SOUTHAMPTON State HAMPSHIRE Country United Kingdom Job Type Full Time

Job Description


Cunard is looking for a talented PR Manager to join our award-winning PR team. 

When people think of iconic travel brands, Cunard is always one of the first names that comes to mind. For more than 185 years, we’ve set the standard for luxury ocean travel. As Walpole’s Luxury Brand of the Year, we’re proud to be recognised for the exceptional experiences that we offer and our storytelling that captures the imagination of guests around the world.

Role Overview

In this role, you will help share the Cunard story through UK and global media relations, exciting partnerships, and world-class PR campaigns that showcase our unique blend of heritage and innovation.

You will be developing, managing, and delivering a range of communication, PR and event activities and strategies that drive brand awareness of Cunard through great press coverage and interesting and engaging content. This role is designed to keep us focused on activity that really makes a difference to our guests, turning insight into great communication strategies and PR activations that deliver results.

Key accountabilities include:

  • Manage media relations by delivering proactive stories and responding to media enquiries. 
  • Develop relationships with key media and collaborate with partners and talent to support events and campaigns. 
  • Assist the Global Director of PR & Events with internal communication requirements and support building a successful network with international PR teams. 
  • Drive brand awareness through communication, PR, and event activities that result in great press coverage and engaging content.

Positioned within our internal structure from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President), this role is classified as a CUK08, offered as a full-time position, on a permanent basis, we offer hybrid work including up to two days from home.

Requirements: Your Expertise and Leadership

To thrive as a PR Manager within the Cunard team, we're looking for:

  • Experience in planning, developing, and delivering media engagement plans that support global newsrooms. 
  • Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to write in various styles for different audiences. 
  • Proven relationship management skills for building multi-faceted relationships with stakeholders and third parties. 
  • Understanding of luxury brand media activity and how it supports long-term strategy and commercial success.

About You: A Catalyst for Change

We believe that diversity enriches our team. We're interested in candidates who:

  • Insightful and resourceful in proactively building and maintaining relationships with media, stakeholders, and partners. 
  • Collaborative, working effectively with internal teams and external partners. 
  • Timely and effective communicator, ensuring information is shared promptly and accurately. 
  • Results-driven, focusing on activities that make a difference to guests and deliver measurable outcomes.

Why Join Us?

Working with us is about more than a job. It's about creating unforgettable holiday happiness for our guests and a fulfilling career for you. 

Read our employee experience guide to learn more about life as a Carnival UK colleague.

CUK-employee-experience-guide-July-2025.pdf

Our benefits package reflects our commitment to your wellbeing:

  • Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
  • Annual bonus 
  • A friendly welcome with help settling in
  • Regular office events including live entertainment, lifestyle events and charity partner fundraisers 
  • Extensive learning and development opportunities 
  • Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
  • Employee-led networks
  • Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programmes
  • Recognition scheme with prizes and awards
  • Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme
  • Company paid private medical and dental insurance and health assessment
  • In-house Occupational Health help and access to digital GP
  • Life Assurance
  • Parental and adoption leave
  • Employee Shares Plan 
  • Electric Car and Cycle to Work schemes
  • Onsite restaurant offering range of healthy cooked and grab and go meals
  • Discounted retail and leisure via discounts portal

Ready to Lead?

If guiding a guest experience team to new heights excites you, we're eager to hear from you. Apply now to start your journey with us, where your performance-led leadership will make a difference in our shared success. 

Recruitment Journey

For more information on your recruitment journey, please visit https://bit.ly/CUKCandidateJourney. 

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About Us

Holidays are one of life’s greatest pleasures. Having the chance to relax, escape and explore is a magical thing. And there is no better holiday than a cruise.

No one knows cruising like Carnival UK, where talented people from across the globe come together to create unforgettable holiday happiness. As part of the world’s largest holiday travel and leisure company, we take enormous pride in bringing to life two of the most iconic brands from Britain’s rich seafaring heritage, P&O Cruises and Cunard. Collectively they have been delivering unbridled joy, boundless adventure and lifelong memories to millions of people for over 350 years. And in a multi-million pound global holiday market, where cruising has barely scratched the surface, we have the opportunity to do that for many, many more people.

Our diverse yet tight knit teams share high standards, heartfelt values and passion for our purpose. Our Culture Essentials describe the expectations we have for ourselves and of each other, in building a culture that supports safe, sustainable, compliant operations and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion.

It’s through the successful delivery of these extraordinary travel experiences for our target markets and our distinctive culture, that we hope to become Travel’s Employer of Choice.



About the Team

The Cunard Sales and Marketing team are instrumental in the success of Cunard and our aim to be the benchmark of luxury travel.  Our marketing teams maximize opportunity and create focused, meaningful communications that help to grow existing audiences as well as appealing to new ones.  We have experts across advertising, CRM, brand, PR, digital, loyalty and the creative studio who work together collaboratively to create unforgettable holiday happiness.  Our sales teams develop and grow partnerships ensuring they have the finest knowledge of our products. Our teams also manage sales communications, systems, and events to provide the best tools and support, ensuring that our travel trade partners are at the centre of all that we do. In addition to supporting travel agents, the sales team provide support to a team of ship based sales managers and work with third parties to find new routes to market for our brand. 
Join us on our journey - apply now.

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