Job Description
Role Overview
Carnival UK, leadership team is seeking a proactive and efficient Personal Assistant to provide top-notch administrative, organisational, and logistical support to our senior leaders. This role requires excellent coordination, communication, and collaboration skills. The successful candidate will manage diaries, prepare presentations, plan agendas and meetings, and handle general administrative duties across teams.
Key accountabilities include:
* Support assigned senior leader(s) by ensuring they are prepared for upcoming engagements and work priorities.
* Manage and maintain diaries, balancing business meetings, travel, and preparation time.
* Proactively prepare necessary documents to ensure senior leader(s) are fully prepared for engagements.
* Manage regular processes and reports on behalf of senior leader(s).
* Organise meetings, prepare agendas, and take minutes/action points as required.
* Arrange travel and manage travel schedules for senior leader(s).
* Oversee emails, prioritise, and delegate as agreed with senior leader(s).
* Prepare correspondence, reports, and presentations on behalf of senior leader(s).
* Support the wider Leadership Team with event coordination and arrangement.
* Assist with recruitment activities within the department.
* Work flexibly and collaboratively with other Personal Assistants to ensure departmental coverage.
This role is classified as CUK12 and is available on a full-time, permanent basis. We offer hybrid work including up to two days from home.
About you: the ideal candidate
You are more than just your CV. You're someone who brings:
* Be an effective communicator (verbally and written)
* Personal assistant experience at a senior level working within a large business environment
* Experience of making international travel arrangements
* Experience of organising events in house and at external locations
* Excellent working knowledge of MS Office suite in particular PowerPoint and Word
* Awareness of confidentiality of tasks undertaken and use of appropriate discretion
In this role, your unique personal attributes will be essential to distinguishing yourself. If you possess qualities that can drive success, we want you in our Team. Your ability to blend your strengths with innovative thinking will lay the groundwork for growth within our department.
We recognise the value in having people with a variety of backgrounds, experience and skills in our business. That means the role requirements here should be seen as a guide, not a checklist.
Why Join Us?
Our Team are about being part of a community that values growth, work-life balance, and wellbeing.
* Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
* 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
* Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
* 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.
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About Us
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.
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