Senior IT Procurement Manager - 18 Month FTC

Carnival UK is seeking a Senior IT Procurement Manager to set and drive the organisation’s IT commercial strategy during a major period of technology and business transformation.

As a key member of the procurement leadership team, you will shape how technology suppliers are sourced, governed, and optimised to deliver innovation, resilience, and long-term value.  

Acting as the CIO’s primary commercial counterpart, you will ensure IT strategy is enabled through strong supplier partnerships, effective sourcing, and rigorous commercial risk management. Operating at the intersection of technology, finance, and enterprise risk, you will hold accountability for IT commercial exposure and value sustainability.

 

As Senior IT Procurement Manager, you will:

• Lead high value, complex technology sourcing and negotiations, delivering strong commercial and risk outcomes
• Manage a resilient and high performing portfolio of strategic technology suppliers
• Drive effective commercial lifecycle management, ensuring contracts perform against cost, risk, and value objectives
• Strengthen procurement governance, demand assurance, and sourcing execution to improve pace and consistency
• Apply innovative commercial and contractual models to support cloud, managed services, and major transformation programmes
• Provide clear, trusted commercial input on major investment, renewal, and sourcing decisions

 

Positioned within our internal structure from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President), this role is classified as a CUK06, offered as a full-time position, on a fixed-term (18 months) basis, we offer hybrid work including up to two days from home.

 

Requirements: Your Expertise and Leadership

To thrive as a Senior IT Procurement Manager, we're looking for:

• Significant senior-level procurement experience, with deep expertise in IT or technology-related categories.
• Deep expertise in structuring, negotiating, and managing complex technology agreements, including handling contractual risk and disputes
• Strong commercial contracting, supplier management, and outsourcing experience.

• Experience operating within complex, transformation-led environments.

   

About You: A Catalyst for Change We believe that diversity enriches our team. We're interested in candidates who:

• The credibility and confidence to challenge the status quo, introduce progressive commercial solutions, and ensure maximum value is realised
• The ability to operate calmly and decisively in high pressure, change intensive environments
• Executive presence and the ability to influence, advise, and challenge effectively across senior leadership forums

 

Why Join Us? Working with us is about more than a job. It's about creating unforgettable holiday happiness for our guests and a fulfilling career for you. 
Read our employee experience guide to learn more about life as a Carnival UK colleague here.

• Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers 
• Annual bonus
• Car allowance
• Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
• Company paid private medical and dental insurance and health assessment for you and your family
• In-house Occupational Health help and access to digital GP
• Life Assurance
• Employee Shares Plan
• Electric Car and Cycle to Work schemes

• Discounted retail and leisure via discounts portal

   

Ready to Lead? If shaping IT procurement strategy at senior level and influencing transformation excites you, we're eager to hear from you. Apply now to start your journey with us, where your leadership will make a tangible impact on our shared success.

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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.

Our diverse yet tight knit teams share high standards, heartfelt values and passion for our purpose. Our Culture Essentials describe the expectations we have for ourselves and of each other, in building a culture that supports safe, sustainable, compliant operations and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion.

It’s through the successful delivery of these extraordinary travel experiences for our target markets and our distinctive culture, that we hope to become Travel’s Employer of Choice.