Director, Future Workforce: Skills Strategy & Insight

Costa Crociere S.p.A.; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Medical insurance

Pension scheme

Leave allowance

Employee Shares Plan

Life Assurance

Wellbeing programmes

Discounts portal

Job summary

Carnival UK is seeking a Director, Future Workforce to define strategic workforce planning for our P&O Cruises and Cunard portfolios. This high-impact role requires turning insights into action, shaping capability across ship and shore, and partnering with senior leaders to forecast demand and investment in skills.

The role blends strategic thinking with hands-on governance, data-led decision making, and change leadership to embed a mature, skills-led workforce planning capability across the

Qualifications

• Deep strategic workforce planning and business foresight expertise.
• Ability to design and govern enterprise-wide workforce planning methodologies, frameworks, tools and policies, including scenario planning, workforce modelling, data inputs and risk identification.
• Strong analytical capability, with experience of combining workforce assumptions, financial data and business insight to create clear and actionable recommendations.
• Strong influencing and change leadership capability, with the credibility to build stakeholder confidence, coach the business in skills-based thinking and embed workforce planning into strategic decision making.
• Strategic and pragmatic thinking, translating high-level ambition into practical, commercially grounded solutions.
• Self-starting approach with drive, ownership and execution.
• Strong collaboration skills with the confidence to engage senior stakeholders through change.

Responsibilities

• Owning and continuously evolving Carnival UK's strategic workforce planning methodology, cycles, data standards and governance.
• Leading scenario planning and workforce risk identification for senior leaders with clear strategic options.
• Translating workforce insights into coordinated actions across learning design, employer brand, capability building, recruitment and location strategy.
• Shaping data, tooling and system requirements to support strategic workforce planning and ensure insights are embedded in decisions.

Skills

Strategic workforce planning

Stakeholder engagement

Scenario planning

Data analytics

Change leadership

Business partnering

Talent strategy

Job description

Carnival UK is seeking a Director, Future Workforce to define strategic workforce planning for our P&O Cruises and Cunard portfolios. This high-impact role requires turning insights into action, shaping capability across ship and shore, and partnering with senior leaders to forecast demand and investment in skills.

The role blends strategic thinking with hands-on governance, data-led decision making, and change leadership to embed a mature, skills-led workforce planning capability across the