Senior Manager, ePMO Governance | Hybrid & Change Delivery

Carnival UK (P&O Cruises & Cunard); Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discounts on cruises

Annual bonus

Flexible hybrid working

Learning & development opportunities

Pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Life Assurance

Employee assistance program

Staff events and entertainment

Career progression opportunities

Onsite restaurant

Gym access

Job summary

Carnival UK is seeking a Senior Manager, ePMO Governance within the Strategy Department. You will guide the Change Delivery Framework, define stage gates, and drive governance standards across Carnival UK. The role blends structured governance with agile/hybrid practices and requires collaboration with senior stakeholders.

You will design training and guidance for PMO teams, foster cross-functional partnerships, and help ensure delivery plans stay on track while enabling continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• A recognised project, programme, portfolio or PMO qualification (e.g. MSP, MoP, P3O, APM PMQ, PRINCE2 Practitioner or PMI) or comparable experience in a complex PMO environment.
• Proven experience designing, implementing and embedding project and programme governance frameworks, including stage-gate governance and delivery standards.
• Strong knowledge of waterfall delivery with working understanding of agile and hybrid approaches within one governance framework.
• Experience creating and delivering training, coaching and guidance on ways of working within PMO/ePMO environments.

Responsibilities

• Owning, embedding and continuously improving the Carnival UK Change Delivery Framework as the single, consistent way of working across Carnival UK.
• Defining and maintaining stage gates, minimum standards, tools and templates for varying project sizes.
• Driving adoption through communications, training, coaching, pilots and rollouts, refining the framework based on feedback.
• Acting as a critical friend to programme teams and building partnerships across Carnival UK.
• Set and drive standards for programme and project management across Carnival UK.

Education

MSP

MoP

P3O

APM PMQ

PRINCE2 Practitioner

PMI

Job description

Carnival UK is seeking a Senior Manager, ePMO Governance within the Strategy Department. You will guide the Change Delivery Framework, define stage gates, and drive governance standards across Carnival UK. The role blends structured governance with agile/hybrid practices and requires collaboration with senior stakeholders.

You will design training and guidance for PMO teams, foster cross-functional partnerships, and help ensure delivery plans stay on track while enabling continuous improvement.