department manager Southampton, England
Job description
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 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 Training Compliance Manager works in collaboration with the Fleet Recruitment, Onboarding and Rotation teams to deliver unforgettable holiday happiness to our guests & support delivery of the required number of safe & compliant crew to the business.
Responsible for the scheduling, utilisation and fulfilment of training compliance for our fleet. They are passionate about the ‘crew journey’ to a ship for both our new and returning colleagues and are ‘customer centric’ in their approach
- Ensure policy and procedures are crew focused and strive to improve the crew experience of training compliance, providing support and knowledge to all crew.
- Maintain full training compliance of the Fleet through effective use of CUK training matrices, course priority lists and training reports
- Take a future focused approach to manage and mitigate compliance risks through analysis of issues and data associated with mandatory, compliance and operational training requirements. Effectively and clearly communicate training compliance risk.
- Identify the opportunities for cost containment across the training compliance function. Support budget holders to accurately forecast training spend, key SME for internal and external audits, CUK audits and inspections
Our role categories range from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President) so you can clearly see internal development opportunities. This role is a CUK08 and is offered on a full-time, permanent basis, with at least two 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:
- Appropriate experience with robust track record
- Good knowledge of Maritime Training requirements
- A passion for customer service, placing the crew member at the forefront of all Training Compliance activity
- Experience and track record of managing compliance and governance processes and procedures.
- Comfortable working in both a reactive and proactive space.
- Well established stakeholder engagement skills with effective communication approaches.
- Passionate about team growth and development with a well-developed coaching style
- Experience of managing a team in a fast paced and dynamic Operational environment
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.
- Home and office-based hybrid working (minimum two office days)
- Annual bonus
- Recognition scheme with prizes and awards
- Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
- Regular office events including live entertainment, lifestyle events and charity partner fundraisers
- Extensive learning and development opportunities
- Employee-led networks
- Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programmes
- Company paid Health Cash Plan 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
- Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
- Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme
- A friendly welcome with help settling in
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About Us
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.
To keep everyone on board fit and well, colleagues who visit or work on our ships must be fully vaccinated, including boosters. We’re reviewing this requirement regularly.
About Carnival
CEO: Arnold W. Donald
Revenue: $10+ billion (USD)
Size: 10000+ Employees
Type: Company - Public
Website: jobs.carnival.com
Year Founded: 1994
