Product Manager
Job ID 9944 Date posted 03/02/2025 Date closes 17/02/2025 City SOUTHAMPTON State HAMPSHIRE Country United Kingdom Job Type Full TimeJob Description
Carnival UK is in search of a Product Manager, who will be crucial in supporting our technological direction and nurturing a high-performing team.
Carnival UK is building an industry-leading Digital function dedicated to crafting exceptional experiences that delight our guests, fulfil our promise of holiday happiness, whilst driving substantial revenue growth. Our mission is to constantly transform the guest experience through innovative digital solutions, fostering a culture of innovation, agility, and curiosity. We want to empower our teams to deliver exceptional results, and the Product Manager will play a pivotal role in shaping the way we do this.
The Product Manager will provide strategic leadership, product vision and strategy, overseeing the entire product lifecycle from conception, growth, maturity, decline to retirement.
Your responsibilities:
- Develop and communicate a clear product vision and strategy that is aligned to company goals
Analyse market and user research, feedback, expert opinion, and usage data to understand needs and opportunities. - Develop product propositions and determine product positioning and variants for different customer and user segments
- Lead the ideation phase, directing activities of the Product Owner and development team, and collaborating with Engineering, Delivery, eCommerce, Marketing and Design teams to ensure seamless product delivery
- Manage the full product life cycle to ensure that customer/user needs are met and that financial and other targets are achieved. Selects, adopts, and adapts appropriate product development and implementation methods, tools, and techniques
Positioned within our internal structure from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President), this role is classified as a CUK06 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 Product Manager, we're looking for:
- Experience as a Product Manager, ideally within E-Commerce, knowledge on pricing, promotions and optimisation would be advantageous
- Previous exposure to supporting declining products whilst leading the ideation phase of a new product
Solid understanding of principles and software methodologies, including Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, DevOps.
About You: A Catalyst for Change
We believe that diversity enriches our team. We're interested in candidates who:
- Possess impactful communication skills (oral, written and presentation) in both formal and informal settings, articulating complex ideas to broad audiences
- Strong stakeholder management skills, confident driving engagement, negotiating and influencing to drive delivery and collaboration
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. Our benefits package reflects our commitment to your wellbeing:
• Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
• Annual bonus
• Car allowance
• Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
• 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
• 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 technology 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
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