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Carnival Cruise Line Senior Digital Projects Manager in Southampton, United Kingdom

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Our Digital team is in search of a Senior Digital Projects Manager, who will be crucial in supporting our technological direction and nurturing a high-performing team.

It is an exciting time to join Carnival UK as we build an industry-leading Digital function dedicated to crafting exceptional experiences that delight our guests, fulfil our promise of holiday happiness, whilst driving substantial revenue growth.

Our mission is to constantly transform the guest experience through innovative digital solutions, fostering a culture of innovation, agility, and curiosity. We want to empower our teams to deliver exceptional results, and the Senior Digital Projects Manager will play a pivotal role in shaping the way we do this.

Some of the key responsibilities:

  • Providing leadership across multiple projects, aligning programmes with business priorities and ensuring successful delivery of digital transformation initiatives

  • Leading a team consisting of analysts, project managers, and senior project managers, ensuring that projects are well-scoped, well-managed, and delivered to the highest standards, whilst fostering a culture of collaboration and empowerment

  • Managing relationships with third-party vendors and suppliers involved in digital projects, ensuring they meet service-level agreements and deliver value to the project.

  • Providing communication at a strategic level, ensuring that digital project goals are clearly articulated to senior leadership and across the organisation.

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. We offer hybrid work including up to two days from home.

Requirements: Your Expertise and Leadership

To thrive as a Senior Digital Project Manager, we're looking for:

  • Extensive experience in digital project management or program management roles, already proven in a senior management capacity, leading teams of business analysts and project managers in a technology function

  • Proven background managing large-scale, complex digital projects, particularly in fast-moving, delivery-focused environments.

  • Demonstrated expertise in both Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies.

About You: A Catalyst for Change

We believe that diversity enriches our team. We're interested in candidates who have:

  • Strong leadership and team-building skills, with a track record of creating a high-performance culture

  • Have excellent project management capabilities, with a focus on delivering complex projects on time, within scope, and budget.

  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, capable of interacting with senior executives and technical teams.

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

  • Car allowance

  • Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme

  • 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

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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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.

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