Job Description

We recognise the value in having people with a variety of backgrounds, experience, and skills in our business. That means the role requirements here should be seen as a guide, not a checklist. If you have more, less, or different experiences, but really relevant skills, we’d love to hear from you.

We work flexibly and will help you to find a healthy balance of remote working and time in our fantastic Southampton office, collaborating, taking part in events, and getting to know people that makes working with us so rewarding. We welcome the opportunity to discuss reduced hours and job share arrangements.

The Role

The Maritime Team here at Carnival UK aligns all of the key elements of maritime operations together with integrated strategy, planning and operational delivery. It unifies both ship and shore as a cohesive team and ensures that the fleet is operated in a safe, reliable, efficient, and compliant way. 

The role of Project Manager is to lead the delivery of agreed projects within maritime. Projects that are managed by this team are often large capital expenditure projects that have significant technical elements. 

The primary responsibility of the role is to ensure the project deliverables are attained on time, in adherence with protocols and within budget. The right candidate will possess effective communications skills and the expertise to shape, define and manage a comprehensive project plan. They will be courageous and decisive, effectively prioritise and see the action through to delivery.

• Applies best practice and manages within Carnival UK project governance & assurance frameworks.
• Clearly define, document, and deliver the project objectives.
• Implement and manage agreed governance standards across the project lifecycle.
• Identify and manage dependencies across the project.
• Manage changes (to scope, time and budget) within agreed tolerances and escalate risks.
• Define, manage, and report the project budget.
• Complete project reports as required.

Our role categories range from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President) so you can clearly see internal development opportunities. This role is a CU07 and is offered on a 12 month fix term basis with at least three days based in our Southampton office. 

About You
Fresh ideas and different perspectives are what excite us most and help us to succeed. Alongside bringing these to the role, you’ll also need:

• Hold a recognised project management qualification, and well versed in application of industry standard project management techniques in a real project environment
• Experience of developing project management tools including plans, tracking progress, and managing risks and issues.
• Competency with Microsoft Suite of products including MSP.

Being part of our team has its advantages…

We’re a holiday company so we know there’s more to life than work. Our comprehensive range of benefits are designed to help your personal and financial health and wellbeing.

• A friendly welcome with help settling in
• Home and office-based hybrid working (minimum three office days)
• Regular office events including live entertainment, lifestyle events and charity partner fundraisers 
• Extensive learning and development opportunities 
• Annual bonus 
• 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
• Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
• 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

Please note: Being able to create unforgettable holiday happiness is a brilliant opportunity so we often receive high volumes of applications for our roles. In these cases, we may close our job adverts early and aren’t able to consider applications once this happens.

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