Sustainability & Corporate Affairs Manager

Carnival; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading holiday company in Southampton is seeking a proactive Sustainability & Corporate Affairs Manager to integrate sustainability communication and manage corporate affairs engagement. The role involves stakeholder management and planning campaigns, requiring excellent communication skills and project management experience. The position offers hybrid working, comprehensive benefits, and a focus on personal wellbeing.

Benefits

Annual bonus

Employee Discounted Cruising

Company paid private medical and dental insurance

Generous leave policy

Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programmes

Qualifications

• Experience in planning and executing campaigns.
• Ability to translate complex information into clear messaging.
• Strong project management skills in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and communicate sustainability story.
• Manage stakeholder engagement and partnerships.
• Track actions and progress against KPIs.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Strong project management and delivery experience

Experience in executing external engagement campaigns

Ability to manage stakeholder relationships

Interest in politics and sustainability policies

Job description

We recognise the value in having people with a variety of backgrounds, experience and skills in our business. That means the role requirements here should be seen as a guide, not a checklist. If you have more, less or different experiences, but really relevant skills, we’d love to hear from you.

We work flexibly and will help you to find a healthy balance of remote working and time in our fantastic Southampton office, collaborating, taking part in events and getting to know people that makes working with us so rewarding.

The Role

We are currently looking for a proactive Sustainability & Corporate Affairs Manager, to join our Sustainability & Corporate Affairs Team. This position will hold the unique opportunity to plan, manage, and integrate our sustainability communication and corporate affairs external engagement agenda by highlighting our credentials and impact across a number of economic, social and environmental themes, in a joined-up manner.

Accountabilities include:

• Sustainability communications: Shape the development & communication of our sustainability story at corporate and brand level, ensuring we engage key stakeholders to educate, raise awareness, and build trust.
• Corporate affairs engagement: Manage & improve our network of strategic relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders across central and local government, industry and destinations.
• Planning, Governance and Delivery: Manage the development and delivery of sustainability and corporate affairs engagement plans, calendars and steercos (tracking actions and progress against KPIs), approval of advocacy materials (including briefing packs, stakeholder maps, and position papers)and working closely with our external delivery partners (ensuring alignment with strategic priorities).

The role has dual reporting lines and will report to the VP Sustainability and the VP Corporate Affairs.

Our role categories range from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President) so you can clearly see internal development opportunities. This role is a CUK07 and is offered on a full time, permanent basis, with hybrid working in our Southampton office, a minimum of 3 days per week.

About You

Fresh ideas and different perspectives are what excite us most and help us to succeed. Alongside bringing these to the role, you’ll also need:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including drafting materials for external stakeholders with ability to translate complex information into clear, accessible messaging.
• Strong project management and delivery experience in fast-paced environments.
• Prior experience in planning and executing external engagement campaigns
• The ability to own and manage stakeholder relationships and outcomes.
• Interest in politics and sustainability policies.

Being part of our team has its advantages…

We’re a holiday company so we know there’s more to life than work. Our comprehensive range of benefits are designed to help your personal and financial health and wellbeing.

• Home and office-based hybrid working, working with 3 days per week in the office
• Regular office events including live entertainment, lifestyle events and charity partner fundraisers
• Extensive learning and development opportunities
• Annual bonus
• 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
• Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
• 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

Please note: Being able to create unforgettable holiday happiness is a brilliant opportunity so we often receive high volumes of applications for our roles. In these cases we may close our job adverts early and aren’t able to consider applications once this happens.