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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

We are re-shaping Technology to deliver a new vivid vision for Technology in Carnival UK by 2025. To enable the business to grow, evolve and transform from a traditional legacy estate, we are taking our thought leadership and practical delivery experience to help the business innovate through the application of leading digital technologies and agile methodologies.

As part of this we are looking to welcome a Product Manager within our Fleet based Technology team to drive the development and implementation of predominantly our POS products and services, through their full life cycle from design, test, implementation, and deployment.

You will

• Prioritise product requirements, develops product and implementation roadmaps, and own the product backlog

• Manages the product life cycle to meet customer/user needs and support the wider business in achieving financial or other targets

• Leads implementation of products to the business including engagement with the shore and shipboard teams, directing user testing, and driving communications and training

• Analyses market and/or user research, feedback, expert opinion, and usage data to understand needs and opportunities to develop the products.

• Facilitates uptake of products by developing content, training materials, and monitoring product performance.

Our role categories range from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President) so you can clearly see internal development opportunities. This role is a CUK07 and is offered on a full time, permanent basis. Due to the nature of our Product services being Fleet based, this role does require some international travel estimated at 20% of the time, the remaining time is Hybrid in our Southampton offices.

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:

• Previous full Product lifecycle experience as either a Product Owner or Manager, knowledge of Hospitality, Payment technology or travel operations would be an advantage but not essential

• Excellent Stakeholder relationship skills, with the ability to thoughtfully consult and challenge, using clear and transparent communication

• Understanding of Agile Methodologies

• Flexibility to extensively travel

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 with exciting travel to our ships across the world

• 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

Please note: Being able to create unforgettable holiday happiness is a brilliant opportunity so we often receive high volumes of applications for our roles. In these cases, we may close our job adverts early and aren’t able to consider applications once this happens.

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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.