Senior Manager, Enterprise Business Change – Hybrid

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

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.