Crew Planning Consultant (12 Month FTC)

Job Description

In our continuous journey of growth and innovation at Carnival UK, we are seeking a Crew Planning Consultant to bring fresh insights and expertise to our People department.

We’re dedicated to engaging, empowering, supporting, recognising and rewarding colleagues, and it’s our job to make sure that our people have brilliant opportunities and extraordinary experiences. Future ready, we support our awesome leaders to build awesome teams. And we strive to do the right thing every time, keeping colleagues safe and well.

The Role

The Crew Planner is responsible for effective crew planning for their designated area, ensuring all vessels are properly resourced as per required complement levels, with appropriately qualified and experienced crew members. The Crew Planner is required to respond to change, ensuring optimal efficiency of both planned and unplanned scheduling.

The Crew Planner will act as a subject matter expert, ensuring that all seafarers are fully utilised, and the fleet has the establishment always required. They will have a continuous improvement mind set, ensuring they maintain critical thinking to drive optimal results. This role will involve:

• Providing a professional and optimal partnership with key Stakeholders both ship and shore and Global Talent Partners. Ensuring optimum business outcomes with effective collaboration and challenge.
• Builds strong relationships with stakeholders both internal, external, shore and fleet
• Effectively plan in line with the Crew Repatriation Schedule, maximising the use of green ports and working towards the delivery of efficiency KPIs including forward planning.
• Effective interaction with our Global Talent Partners to ensure delivery and performance, escalating as required through the appropriate mechanisms
  
  

This role is positioned at CUK10 level within our organisation and is available on a full-time 12-month FTC basis. We offer hybrid work including up to two days from home.

Who We Are

Carnival UK are a leading name in the holiday sector, dedicated to delivering unforgettable holiday happiness to our guests. Our success is built on a foundation of diverse talents and perspectives, and we believe in fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.

What You'll Bring

Your unique background and skills are what will make you stand out. We're looking for:

• Proven experience of scheduling and workforce planning
• Experience of managing a variety of stakeholders
• Strong customer service experience
• Experience of working with a large remote workforce
  
  

About You: The Ideal Candidate

You are more than just your CV. You're someone who brings:

• Experience of ship, airline, or complex scheduling
• Familiar with using data to make decisions
  
  

Application Guidance

Diversity is our strength, and we encourage applications from those with varied experiences, whether you meet every listed requirement or not. If you’re passionate about People and looking for an opportunity to grow, we’d love to hear from you.

Why Join Us?

Working with us means more than just a role in the People team. It’s about being part of a team that values well-being and personal growth. Here’s what we offer:

• Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
• Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
• Recognition scheme with prizes and awards
• 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
• Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme
• A friendly welcome with help settling in
  
  

Take the next step

Due to the popularity of our roles and our commitment to finding the best talent, we may close applications earlier than advertised. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to join a team dedicated to creating unforgettable holiday happiness. Apply today to start your journey with us

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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.