Maritime Planning & Performance Senior Manager

This role focuses on supporting Business Planning and Performance within the Maritime & Sustainability team. You will collaborate closely with the Vice President to ensure clear, documented processes and plans for our key deliverables across the entire Maritime & Sustainability domain. In this position, you will coordinate and support key initiatives across the Maritime & Sustainability function, engaging stakeholders at all levels. You'll work with the Maritime Data and Analytics team to identify performance improvement areas and collaborate with stakeholders to develop actionable improvement plans. You will take ownership of the "on the business" agenda and related activities, effectively managing the monthly operating rhythm for Maritime. Your responsibilities will include overseeing Business Risk, Knowledge Management, and Objective Tracking, while also enhancing culture and communication efforts with the Maritime & Sustainability Leadership Team (MSLT). You will also coordinate meetings of the Shore Senior Management Team (SSMT) and other key business forums, facilitating communication between business units. This includes managing performance communications to ships, streamlining interactions between ship and shore teams, and compiling relevant themes and issues to share with leadership. In partnership with the VP of Maritime Planning and Performance, EVP of Maritime and Sustainability, and MSLT, you will ensure visibility of business issues and risks, assisting in the development and management of strategies to address them.,

• Work closely with the Vice President to support key initiatives and projects. This will include working directly with the EVP Maritime and Sustainability and MSLT as required.
• Providing a point of contact within Maritime & Sustainability to respond to issues/risks and work with the relevant stakeholder to ensure plans are in place and progressed bridging communication between business units as required.
• Responsible for managing the Maritime "On the business" calendar. Ensuring a collective view on tactical activity across the Maritime & Sustainability team and ensuring the relevant teams are engaged. This includes working with Maritime & Sustainability teams to ensure that it is up to date and flagging key activities and concerns with leadership and working with the Project team to understand operational ship load.
• Key conduit within Maritime & Sustainability within operational and tactical forums, being an integrator with Brand and other teams across the business.
• Coordinate and respond to matters on behalf of the VP or EVP, deciphering urgency and ensuring that relevant actions are identified and progressed at an appropriate pace delivering briefings as required
  
  In our pursuit of excellence within our maritime department, we're seeking individuals who can drive our planning and performance agenda for our Maritime Business Planning & Performance Senior Manager position. We are looking for someone with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. At our core, we believe in the strength of a diverse and skilled team to drive our business forward. Your skills and qualifications are valuable to us., Our ideal candidates are those who possess not only the technical skills required for the maritime team, but also a passion for the industry and a keen eye for detail. Your professional certifications will be the foundation of your role within our team., Strong Stakeholder Management skills with a proven record of driving collaborative teams across multiple teams.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal. Able to communicate issues and plans clearly and succinctly across a range of mediums. Ability to understand the bigger picture across the organisation.
• Influencing skills to drive resolution across multiple issues.
About You You are someone who thrives in a collaborative environment yet is capable of working with a high degree of accuracy and accountability. Your qualifications in the maritime industry are just the beginning; we're looking for team members who are eager to learn, grow, and contribute to our collective success.

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.

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, with hybrid working including up to two days from home. We offer a dynamic and inclusive workplace where your work makes a real impact. Beyond competitive salaries and benefits, here's what we offer:
• Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
• Annual bonus
• Extensive learning and development opportunities
• Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
• Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programmes
• 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