Carnival UK is in search of a Senior Design Manager, who is crucial in supporting our direction and nurturing a high-performing team.
Role Overview
The hotel design team leads the design of guest-facing environments across newbuild and refurbishment projects for P&O Cruises and Cunard. Working with Brand, Finance, Procurement, Fleet, Operations, shipyards and external design partners, the team ensures creative ambition is translated into commercially viable, operationally effective and technically deliverable spaces.
Key accountabilities include:
- Lead end-to-end hotel design delivery across newbuild and refurbishment projects, balancing brand identity, guest experience, cost and operational requirements.
- Establish robust design governance and quality assurance across concept, developed and technical design stages.
- Protect design integrity through procurement, construction and onboard installation, resolving issues with shipyards, suppliers and internal teams.
- Lead and develop the hotel design team while managing external design consultancies and creative partners.
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 permanent basis. We offer hybrid work including up to two days from home.
Requirements: Your Expertise and Leadership
To thrive as a Senior Design Manager we're looking for:
- A degree or equivalent qualification in a suitable interior design discipline.
- Extensive hands-on design experience, including experience leading and developing a design team.
- Experience delivering large-scale interior, multi-use design and architectural projects for major hospitality brands.
- Strong budget and cost management capability, alongside onsite installation experience and the ability to resolve delivery issues.
About You: A Catalyst for Change
We believe that diversity enriches our team. We're interested in candidates who:
- Balance creative ambition with commercial, technical, operational and whole-of-life considerations.
- Build inclusive, high-performing teams through clear expectations, coaching and constructive feedback.
- Influence senior stakeholders and external partners around a clear and deliverable design vision.
- Make evidence-led decisions that protect design quality, guest value, sustainability and long-term asset performance.
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.
Our benefits package reflects our commitment to your wellbeing:
- Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
- Annual bonus
- A friendly welcome with help settling in
- Regular office events including live entertainment, lifestyle events and charity partner fundraisers
- Extensive learning and development opportunities
- 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
- 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
Ready to Lead?
If guiding a team within the Maritime Team here at Carnival UK to new heights excites you, we're eager to hear from you. Apply now to start your journey with us, where your performance-led leadership will make a difference in our shared success.
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Skills Required
- Degree or equivalent qualification in a suitable interior design discipline
- Extensive hands-on design experience
- Experience leading and developing a design team
- Experience delivering large-scale interior, multi-use design and architectural projects for major hospitality brands
- Strong budget and cost management capability
- Onsite installation experience
- Ability to resolve design delivery issues
What We Do
CCL Industries Inc. employs approximately 26,000 people operating 213 production facilities in 43 countries with corporate offices in Toronto, Canada, and Framingham, Massachusetts. CCL is the world’s largest converter of pressure sensitive and specialty extruded film materials for a wide range of decorative, instructional, functional and security applications for government institutions and large global customers in the consumer packaging, healthcare & chemicals, consumer electronic device and automotive markets. Extruded & laminated plastic tubes, aluminum aerosols & specialty bottles, folded instructional leaflets, precision decorated & die cut components, electronic displays, polymer bank note substrate and other complementary products and services are sold in parallel to specific end-use markets. Avery is the world’s largest supplier of labels, specialty converted media and software solutions for short-run digital printing applications for businesses and consumers available alongside complementary products sold through distributors, mass market stores and e-commerce retailers. Checkpoint is a leading developer of RF and RFID based technology systems for loss prevention and inventory management applications, including labeling and tagging solutions, for the retail and apparel industries worldwide. Innovia is a leading global producer of specialty, high-performance, multi-layer, surface-engineered films for label, packaging and security applications. The Company is partly backward integrated into materials science with capabilities in polymer extrusion, adhesive development, coating & lamination, surface engineering and metallurgy, deployed as needed across the four business segments.
