Job Description
Carnival UK is seeking an enthusiastic, dynamic, and delivery-focused Senior Technology Programme Manager to lead a portfolio of technology-enabled business change initiatives, primarily focused on physical infrastructure enhancements across our ships. This high-impact role will directly influence guest experience and operational excellence.
We are looking for someone who brings energy, adaptability, and a flexible approach to delivery styles, capable of navigating complex programmes with confidence and creativity. If you thrive in fast-paced environments and are passionate about driving meaningful change, we want to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee strategically aligned technology-enabled business projects through a programme of change to achieve business objectives.
- Manage and deliver large-scale change initiatives with competing priorities and stakeholders.
- Ensure clarity on priorities, deliverables, and financial planning across the programme.
- Lead and mentor a diverse, high-performing programme team.
- Engage with senior stakeholders to ensure alignment and successful outcomes.
Positioned within our internal structure from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President), this role is classified as 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
- Lead the delivery of complex, multi-disciplinary programmes aligned with our strategic goals.
- Manage large-scale infrastructure-focused change initiatives, ensuring clarity on priorities, deliverables, and financial planning.
- Build and mentor a high-performing programme team, fostering collaboration and accountability.
- Engage with senior stakeholders across the business to ensure alignment and successful outcomes.
To thrive as a Senior Manager, Technology Programmes, we're looking for:
- A recognised project management qualification (e.g., PRINCE2, PMP).
- Proven experience delivering large-scale business change programmes with a strong emphasis on technology infrastructure.
- A background in physical systems implementation (e.g., onboard systems, shipboard infrastructure, or similar environments).
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- A pragmatic understanding of delivery methodologies (Agile, Waterfall) and when to apply them.
About You: A Catalyst for Change
We believe that diversity enriches our team. We're interested in candidates who:
- Reflect, seek feedback, and resolve issues.
- Embrace change and seek improvements.
- Champion diversity and safeguard wellbeing.
- Take ownership and manage expectations.
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
- 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 a 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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Functions: Product Management; Project Management
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.