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\xc3\xa2\xc2\x80\xc2\x99d 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

Reporting into the Commercial Planning Manager, the role of Commercial Planning, Senior Executive will form an integral part of the team assisting with both the strategic and tactical planning for P&O cruises.

This exciting role has the opportunity to interact with senior stakeholders across both commercial departments (Sales, Marketing, Brand, Revenue Management, PR, Insight, CCO and Finance) as well as the wider business.

You will:

• Assist the Commercial Planning Manager with the coordination of guest facing promotional campaign- and programme launch strategies
• Build, maintain and evolve the long term commercial plan for the brand
• Lead on all commercial readiness forums, such as \xc3\xa2\xc2\x80\xc2\x98Launch Squad\xc3\xa2\xc2\x80\xc2\x99, chair meetings and coordinate any tactical planning activities to support our immediate trading requirements
• Work with our reporting and revenue management teams to track in-campaign performance
• Work with our reporting team (MIS) to evolve commercial planning reporting to improve our ability to track performance against key initiatives and highlight risks and opportunities to the business
• Communicate any new fares and/ or offers to key internal stakeholders, ensuring all business areas are engaged and gaps are communicated to relevant stakeholders
• Be involved in collation of key business reports, ensuring these are of a suitable standard to be presented to company\xc3\xa2\xc2\x80\xc2\x99s executive leadership team and board of directors

Our role categories range from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President) so you can clearly see internal development opportunities. This role is a CUK09 and is offered on a full time fixed term contract basis until Mid June 2024, 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\xc3\xa2\xc2\x80\xc2\x99ll also need:

• Experience in being able to work with multiple stakeholders and communicate strongly to all levels of seniority
• Ability to interpret complex verbal and numerical information from various sources and make recommendations
• Ability to be well organised
• Experience in managing multiple priorities to strict deadlines

Being part of our team has its advantages\xc3\xa2\xc2\x80\xc2\xa6

We\xc3\xa2\xc2\x80\xc2\x99re a holiday company so we know there\xc3\xa2\xc2\x80\xc2\x99s 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)
• 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

Holidays are one of life\xc3\xa2\xc2\x80\xc2\x99s 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\xc3\xa2\xc2\x80\xc2\x99s largest holiday travel and leisure company, we take enormous pride in bringing to life two of the most iconic brands from Britain\xc3\xa2\xc2\x80\xc2\x99s 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\xc3\xa2\xc2\x80\xc2\x99s through the successful delivery of these extraordinary travel experiences for our target markets and our distinctive culture, that we hope to become Travel\xc3\xa2\xc2\x80\xc2\x99s 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\xc3\xa2\xc2\x80\xc2\x99re reviewing this requirement regularly.

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.

To keep everyone on board fit and well, colleagues who visit or work on our ships must be fully vaccinated. We\'re reviewing this requirement regularly and you will be advised accordingly should requirements change.

Carnival Corporation