Assistant Crew Planning Manager 13 month FTC

Carnival UK are a leading name in the holiday sector, dedicated to delivering unforgettable holiday happiness to our guests. Our success is built on a foundation of diverse talents and perspectives, and we believe in fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.

In our continuous journey of growth and innovation at Carnival UK, we are seeking an Assistant Crew Planning Manager to bring fresh insights and expertise to our People department. 

Role Overview

The Assistant Crew Planning Manager is responsible for annualised Officer planning for their designated team area, ensuring all vessels are properly resourced as per required complement levels, with appropriately qualified and experienced crew members.

This role acts as a subject matter expert for annualised Officer planning, ensuring that all Officers are fully utilised in conjunction with the SMT, Deck and Technical Officers Working Days Policy, working with Fleet Resourcing to ensure the fleet always has the required establishment for their areas of responsibility.

The Assistant Crew Planning Manager is required to respond to change, ensuring optimal efficiency of both planned and unplanned scheduling. You provide support to team members in managing unplanned activity and proactively escalating to the Crew Planning Manager and stakeholders.

You are required to build and create best practice for annualised Officer planning across the operations, working with peers to ensure that their teams are operating to the required standard. You identify areas of improvement, efficiency opportunities and imbed through regular training and supporting to develop consistency amongst the crew planning community.

This pivotal role will involve:

 

• Build and maintain effective relationships with Stakeholders both onshore and onboard, to drive the required business outcomes.
• Takes accountability for planning efficiency for their area, ensuring that teams are making cost effective decisions that balance annualised Officer experience with operational requirements.
• Managing a team, a people leader who provides opportunities for professional development for their team members.
• Support the development of effective reporting, dashboards, and RPAs to enable efficiency gains, including the continued maximisation of the current planning platform.

 

This role is positioned at CUK8 level within our organisation and is available on a full-time 13 month fixed term basis. We offer hybrid work including up to two days from home.

What You'll Bring

Your unique background and skills are what will make you stand out. We're looking for:

• Proven experience of scheduling and workforce planning of annualized Officers
• Experience of managing operational teams

 

• Experience of managing a variety of stakeholders
• Strong customer service experience

About You: The Ideal Candidate

You are more than just your CV. You're someone who brings:

• Experience of ship, airline or complex scheduling 
• Familiarity of financial processes, analysis of deviations and input to annual budgets 
• Shipboard experience 
• Familiar with using data to make decisions 

Application Guidance

Diversity is our strength, and we encourage applications from those with varied experiences, whether you meet every listed requirement or not. If you’re passionate about People and looking for an opportunity to grow, we’d love to hear from you. 

Why Join Us?

Working with us means more than just a role in the People team. It’s about being part of a team that values well-being and personal growth. 

Read our employee experience guide to learn more about life as a Carnival UK colleague.

CUK-employee-experience-guide-July-2025.pdf

Here’s what we offer:

• Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
• Annual bonus 
• Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
• Recognition scheme with prizes and awards
• Regular office events including live entertainment, lifestyle events and charity partner fundraisers
• Extensive learning and development opportunities
• Employee-led networks
• Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programmes
• Company paid Health Cash Plan 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
• Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme
• A friendly welcome with help settling in

 

Take the next step

Due to the popularity of our roles and our commitment to finding the best talent, we may close applications earlier than advertised. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to join a team dedicated to creating unforgettable holiday happiness. Apply today to start your journey with us.

Recruitment Journey

For more information on your recruitment journey, please visit https://bit.ly/CUKCandidateJourney. 

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Holidays are one of life’s greatest pleasures. Having the chance to relax, escape and explore is a magical thing. And there is no better holiday than a cruise.
No one knows cruising like Carnival UK, where talented people from across the globe come together to create unforgettable holiday happiness. As part of the world’s largest holiday travel and leisure company, we take enormous pride in bringing to life two of the most iconic brands from Britain’s rich seafaring heritage, P&O Cruises and Cunard. Collectively they have been delivering unbridled joy, boundless adventure and lifelong memories to millions of people for over 350 years. And in a multi-million pound global holiday market, where cruising has barely scratched the surface, we have the opportunity to do that for many, many more people.
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