Senior Advertising Campaign Lead – Data‑Driven, Big-Budget

Carnival UK (P&O Cruises & Cunard); Southampton; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discounts

25 days leave

Health plan

Pension scheme

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Carnival UK is seeking a Senior Consultant, Advertising (Advertising Manager) to lead end-to-end campaigns for P&O Cruises and Cunard. You will own media planning, creative delivery and production to support brand and commercial objectives, working with agencies and internal stakeholders to ensure insight-led, compliant, on-brand activity with performance focus.

Role requires extensive media planning experience across paid channels, TV shoots, regulatory compliance, and experience managing large

Qualifications

• Extensive media planning and execution experience across a range of paid media channels.
• Clear understanding of advertising practices and techniques.
• Experience leading large TV shoots and associated production.
• Comprehensive understanding of advertising regulatory frameworks, Clearcast and platform-specific compliance.
• Project management/co-ordination experience.
• Experience of working at management level.
• Excellent influencing skills.
• Extensive experience on a large B2C piece of business from client side, including briefing, approval and production processes.
• Experience managing large budgets.
• Experience planning and delivering TTL communications.
• Experience of creative production across AV media including TV, press, OOH, display, radio, door drops, cinema and social media.

Responsibilities

• Deliver end-to-end media plans and integrated campaigns, optimising channel mix, investment and performance to achieve objectives.
• Monitor and optimise campaign performance against KPIs, providing insights to improve future planning and investment decisions.
• Lead large-scale advertising shoots and productions from planning to post-production delivery.
• Manage the delivery and optimisation of creative assets across channels, ensuring activity is compliant and on-brand.
• Collaborate with agencies and internal stakeholders to align activity with campaign objectives and commercial priorities.
• Use performance data and testing to drive continuous improvement and a joined-up full-funnel approach.

Job description

Carnival UK is seeking a Senior Consultant, Advertising (Advertising Manager) to lead end-to-end campaigns for P&O Cruises and Cunard. You will own media planning, creative delivery and production to support brand and commercial objectives, working with agencies and internal stakeholders to ensure insight-led, compliant, on-brand activity with performance focus.

Role requires extensive media planning experience across paid channels, TV shoots, regulatory compliance, and experience managing large