Senior Manager, Business Change

Carnival · Southampton

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In our pursuit of excellence within our finance department here at Carnival UK, we're seeking individuals who bring a wealth of business change knowledge and qualifications to the table for our Senior Manager, Business Change position. At our core, we believe in the strength of a diverse and skilled team to drive our business forward. Your skills and qualifications are valuable to us.

Role Overview

Working across Carnival UK’s business and technology-enabled transformation portfolio, your role is to increase the enterprise change maturity to ensure change lands well and maximises return on investment. You will own the enterprise-wide view of change, ensuring its cumulative impact is understood, coordinated and deliverable.

Key accountabilities include:

  • Define and govern the enterprise business change strategy and framework, setting portfolio-level principles, priorities and standards.

  • Mentor and coach change champions providing change management guidance, principles and objectives 

  • Maintain a forward-looking view of cumulative change impacts across teams and enterprise, identifying saturation, collisions and capacity constraints.

  • Provide decision-ready insight on change risks, dependencies, readiness constraints and business impacts to support senior governance forums.

  • Support change impact, readiness reporting and communications strategy across the business

  • Collaborate with key change delivery roles across the enterprise to ensure effective change management is embedded in programme delivery

  • Assure the coherence and quality of change planning while building organisational capability, standards and consistent ways of working. 

Position Requirements

Our ideal candidates are those who possess not only the technical skills required for business change but also a passion for transformation and a keen eye for detail. Your academic background and professional certifications will be the foundation of your role within our team.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

  • Proven track record leading business change teams across large scale, enterprise-wide complex transformations and digital adoptions in a matrix organisation

  • Significant experience architecting the change strategy and leading business change across multiple projects or programmes, with accountability at portfolio, domain or enterprise level.

  • Demonstrable experience managing cumulative change load, saturation and collision risk and advising senior stakeholders on sequencing and trade-offs.

  • Professional experience in business, organisational change, transformation, HR, operations or a related discipline.

  • Formal change, programme or portfolio management training, such as Prosci, APM, PMI, MSP or Agile change in complex environments.

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