Manager, Business Change

Carnival UK; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Onsite restaurant

Employee discounts

Learning and development opportunities

Employee assistance programmes

Private medical and dental insurance

Job summary

Carnival UK seeks a Senior Manager, Business Change to define and govern enterprise change strategy, mentor change champions, and provide decision-ready insight to governance forums. You will manage cumulative change across teams, ensuring coherent planning and effective delivery within a hybrid work model.

The role requires significant experience in large-scale transformations, cross-functional collaboration, and formal change management training.

Qualifications

• Formal change, programme or portfolio management training, such as Prosci, APM, PMI, MSP or Agile change in complex environments.
• Significant experience architecting the change strategy and leading business change across multiple projects or programmes, with accountability at portfolio, domain or enterprise level.
• Demonstrable experience managing cumulative change load, saturation and collision risk and advising senior stakeholders on sequencing and trade-offs.
• Professional experience in business, organisational change, transformation, HR, operations or a related discipline.
• Proven track record leading business change teams across large scale, enterprise-wide complex transformations and digital adoptions in a matrix organisation.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern the enterprise business change strategy and framework, setting portfolio-level principles, priorities and standards.
• Mentor and coach change champions providing change management guidance, principles and objectives
• Maintain a forward-looking view of cumulative change impacts across teams and enterprise, identifying saturation, collisions and capacity constraints.
• Provide decision-ready insight on change risks, dependencies, readiness constraints and business impacts to support senior governance forums.
• Support change impact, readiness reporting and communications strategy across the business
• Collaborate with key change delivery roles across the enterprise to ensure effective change management is embedded in programme delivery
• Assure the coherence and quality of change planning while building organisational capability, standards and consistent ways of working.
• Significant experience architecting the change strategy and leading business change across multiple projects or programmes, with accountability at portfolio, domain or enterprise level.
• Demonstrable experience managing cumulative change load, saturation and collision risk and advising senior stakeholders on sequencing and trade-offs.
• Professional experience in business, organisational change, transformation, HR, operations or a related discipline.
• Formal change, programme or portfolio management training, such as Prosci, APM, PMI, MSP or Agile change in complex environments.

Skills

Strategic communicator

Influencer

Analytical decision-maker

Inclusive collaborator

Change management

Portfolio management

Education

Prosci/APM/PMI/MSP training

Job description

In our pursuit of excellence within our finance department here at Carnival UK, we're seeking individuals who bring a wealth of business change knowledge and qualifications to the table for our Senior Manager, Business Change position. At our core, we believe in the strength of a diverse and skilled team to drive our business forward. Your skills and qualifications are valuable to us.,

• Define and govern the enterprise business change strategy and framework, setting portfolio-level principles, priorities and standards.
• Mentor and coach change champions providing change management guidance, principles and objectives
• Maintain a forward-looking view of cumulative change impacts across teams and enterprise, identifying saturation, collisions and capacity constraints.
• Provide decision-ready insight on change risks, dependencies, readiness constraints and business impacts to support senior governance forums.
• Support change impact, readiness reporting and communications strategy across the business
• Collaborate with key change delivery roles across the enterprise to ensure effective change management is embedded in programme delivery
• Assure the coherence and quality of change planning while building organisational capability, standards and consistent ways of working.
  Our ideal candidates are those who possess not only the technical skills required for business change but also a passion for transformation and a keen eye for detail. Your academic background and professional certifications will be the foundation of your role within our team., Proven track record leading business change teams across large scale, enterprise-wide complex transformations and digital adoptions in a matrix organisation
• Significant experience architecting the change strategy and leading business change across multiple projects or programmes, with accountability at portfolio, domain or enterprise level.
• Demonstrable experience managing cumulative change load, saturation and collision risk and advising senior stakeholders on sequencing and trade-offs.
• Professional experience in business, organisational change, transformation, HR, operations or a related discipline.
• Formal change, programme or portfolio management training, such as Prosci, APM, PMI, MSP or Agile change in complex environments.

About You

About You You are someone who thrives in a collaborative environment yet is capable of working independently with a high degree of accuracy and accountability. Your qualifications are just the start; we're looking for team members who are eager to learn, grow, and contribute to our collective success.

Personal Qualities

• A strategic communicator who can translate complex change landscapes into clear, decision-ready insight.
• A credible and constructive influencer who can challenge senior stakeholders and navigate competing priorities.
• An analytical, evidence-led decision-maker who balances colleague capacity, delivery quality, business performance and risk.
• An inclusive collaborator who coaches change leads and champions a coherent colleague experience of transformation.
  Working across Carnival UK's business and technology-enabled transformation portfolio, your role is to increase the enterprise change maturity to ensure change lands well and maximises return on investment. You will own the enterprise-wide view of change, ensuring its cumulative impact is understood, coordinated and deliverable.
  Positioned within our internal structure from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President), this role is classified as a CUK06, offered as a full-time position, on a permanent basis, with hybrid working including up to two days from home.

Read our employee experience guide to learn more about life as a Carnival UK colleague here. We offer a dynamic and inclusive workplace where your work makes a real impact. Beyond competitive salaries and benefits, here's what we offer:

Benefits

• Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
• Annual bonus
• A friendly welcome with help settling in
• Regular office events including live entertainment, lifestyle events and charity partner fundraisers
• Extensive learning and development opportunities
• 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
• 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, Aida
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