Job Description

Carnival UK is in search of a Crew Planning Manager - Maritime, who is crucial in supporting our People direction and nurturing a high-performing team.
As Crew Planning Manager - Maritime, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring our fleet is staffed with the right talent at the right time. This is a high-impact leadership position where you'll manage complex planning, drive compliance with new policies, and influence cost strategies-all while leading a dedicated team and collaborating with senior stakeholders across the business. If you thrive in a dynamic environment and want to make a real difference in operational excellence, this is your opportunity.
Role Overview

• Oversee strategic and operational Maritime crew planning, ensuring vessels are resourced with qualified and experienced personnel.
• Drive adherence to updated policies and processes, maintaining consistency and operational compliance across crew planning activities.
• Manage budgets and cost strategies, providing governance and oversight on unplanned events whilst maintaining team strength
• Build strong relationships across the business, influencing at senior levels to deliver best-in-class crew planning.
• Lead and coach a team, fostering engagement, development, and high performance.

Positioned within our internal structure from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President), this role is classified as CUK07, offered as a full-time position, on a fixed-term contract (12-14 months) basis. We offer hybrid work including up to two days from home.
Requirements: Your Expertise and Leadership
To thrive as a Crew Planning Manager - Maritime, we're looking for:

• Proven experience in the maritime sector and understanding of Officer and Rating roles and structures.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence at senior levels.
• Leadership experience managing teams and budgets in a complex operational environment.
• Familiarity with planning systems and data-driven decision-making

About You: A Catalyst for Performance
We believe that diversity enriches our team. We're interested in candidates who:

• Are resilient and adaptable, comfortable with high exposure and operational complexity
• Collaborate effectively and challenge constructively to drive improvements
• Demonstrate commercial awareness with a focus on cost control and compliance
• Motivate and empower teams while role modelling cultural values

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
• Extensive learning and development opportunities
• Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programmes
• Company paid Health Cash Plan and health assessment
• Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme
• Life Assurance
• 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

Recruitment Journey
For more information on your recruitment journey, please visit https://bit.ly/CUKCandidateJourney.
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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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