Senior Strategy and Change Manager - Entertainment Development (12 months FTC) (8690)

Job Description
We are looking for a forward-thinking individual who wants to challenge the today and help us deliver the future of onboard entertainment experiences that will ensure we continue to exceed our guests’ expectations and deliver our aspirations … if you think this could be you, read on!

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

As Senior Entertainment Strategy and Change Manager for P&O Cruises you will be based in our Southampton head office and reporting directly into the Director of Entertainment. The role will be focusing on future product strategy, the entertainment market and industry future trends, entertainment data, operating models & partnership opportunities that will influence the next chapter of the entertainment vision which will enable us to drive change and exceed guest expectations.

You will identify new opportunities for growth across all touch points of our entertainment product as we look forward to what the next decade of exceeding our guests’ expectations and driving product awareness through entertainment experiences onboard P&O Cruises.

You will:

Create strategic plans that align with P&O Cruises long-term goals, while ensuring that these plans are both innovative, practical, and cost efficient.
Ensuring the future development direction of an entertainment product is in line with P&O Cruises Entertainment vision and brand goals.
Identification of strategic partners, contract negotiations opportunities and implementation process.
Report on current trends, costs, and scores to stakeholders to drive development in the right spaces.

Our role categories range from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President) so you can clearly see internal development opportunities. This role is a CUK06 and is offered on a full time, 12 months fixed term contract basis, with hybrid working in our Southampton office, including up to two days from home.

Please note that regular travel will be required as part of this role. This will include visiting our P&O Cruises ships around the world, international entertainment suppliers and meetings and events across the United Kingdom.

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:

Be a creative and innovative leader with experience in the conceptualisation, design, and development of a wide range of entertainments products and formats and be able to balance costs with benefits.
Be a creative thinker with the ability to inspire a product vision that is unique and industry leading.
Experience of the leisure and entertainments sector having worked within Cruise / Hotels / Resorts / Theme parks / Theatre.
Have project management skills.
Experience within commercial operations where you have managed costs and driven revenue through product offerings.
Have knowledge of the entertainment industry including current and future trends, partnership, and talent connections.

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 (up to 2 days from home)
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
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.

Carnival UK is committed to protecting against potential risks to safeguarding, security and/or fraud risks. This post is subject to the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks in the event of an individual being offered the position. We will only ask about convictions which are defined as 'not protected'.