Project 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 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 organisation 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. Maritime is responsible for delivering refits and projects across the cuk fleet and this role will support one or more of those projects.
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. Projects are allocated based on project manager’s skills and experience.
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.
Working collaboratively across departments to achieve success, this role requires strong influencing and relationship skills, professional organisational ability, competent and effective communication styles.
- Applies best practice and manages within CUK project governance & assurance frameworks
- Provides governance &assurance on project delivery and contributes to their review
- Uses the appropriate level of governance, assurance and expertise required to deliver effective projects.
- Clearly define, document and deliver the project objectives
- Define and plan the business scope of the project and the resources required to develop and apply them effectively
- 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
- Identify, track, manage, escalate and resolve risks and issues through the maintenance of the RAID register
- Define, manage and report the project budget
- Complete project reports as required via ‘Perform’, for the PMO and for CarnivalUK
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 full time, permanent, 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:
- Degree educated or equivalent
- Prince2/Agile Practitioner
- PMBOK
- Lean Six Sig- or equivalent experience
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 two 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
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.
