Job Description
Carnival UK is in search of a Media & Promotions Marketing Manager, who is crucial in supporting our Cunard brand direction and nurturing a high-performing team.
Role Overview
Key accountabilities include:
* Leading the planning, execution, and optimisation of offline media campaigns (TV, press, radio, outdoor, partnerships) to drive brand awareness and guest bookings
* Collaborating with internal teams and external agencies to develop promotional marketing tactics aligned with revenue targets
* Managing the UK advertising budget, including PO and invoice tracking, and ensuring alignment with campaign and annual budgets
* Lead creative development and collaborate with global marketing teams to ensure consistent delivery of promotional assets and ATL brand creative across all channels in line with the Cunard brand.
Positioned within our internal structure from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President), this role is classified as a CUK07, 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 Media & Promotions Marketing Manager within the Cunard marketing team, we're looking for:
* Proven experience in multimedia campaign planning and execution across multiple channels
* Strong data literacy, including performance reporting, econometric modelling, and marketing effectiveness
* Commercial acumen with experience in pricing, legal compliance, and budget management
* Ability to build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external agencies
About You: A Catalyst for Change
We believe that diversity enriches our team. We're interested in candidates who:
* Are collaborative and responsive to cross-functional input
* Balance long-term brand building with short-term promotional needs
* Are open, coachable, and committed to team development
* Speak up, listen, and empower others while promoting continuous improvement
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. 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 guest experience team 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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About Us
Holidays are one of lifes 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 worlds largest holiday travel and leisure company, we take enormous pride in bringing to life two of the most iconic brands from Britains 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.
Its through the successful delivery of these extraordinary travel experiences for our target markets and our distinctive culture, that we hope to become Travels Employer of Choice.
About the Team
The Cunard Sales and Marketing team are instrumental in the success of Cunard and our aim to be the benchmark of luxury travel. Our marketing teams maximize opportunity and create focused, meaningful communications that help to grow existing audiences as well as appealing to new ones. We have experts across advertising, CRM, brand, PR, digital, loyalty and the creative studio who work together collaboratively to create unforgettable holiday happiness. Our sales teams develop and grow partnerships ensuring they have the finest knowledge of our products. Our teams also manage sales communications, systems, and events to provide the best tools and support, ensuring that our travel trade partners are at the centre of all that we do. In addition to supporting travel agents, the sales team provide support to a team of ship based sales managers and work with third parties to find new routes to market for our brand.