Strategic Execution & Value Vice President in Southampton

Job Description

Join us in shaping the future of holiday experiences across our P&O Cruises and Cunard brands as VP, Strategic Execution & Value.

This is a senior, enterprise‑level role focused on maximising value realisation from our strategic plan and investments — connecting strategy, portfolio choices, delivery execution, and business and people change to ensure our strategic intent translates into measurable outcomes and sustained value.

Role Overview

Based at Carnival House, you will lead the Strategy Execution & Value team and act as a strategic execution partner to the Executive Leadership Team.

As a VP, Strategic Execution & Value, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring our strategy is translated into execution — strengthening delivery, improving visibility of performance, and protecting value across the organisation.

Key accountabilities include:

• Translate strategy into an executable, value‑focused portfolio, strengthening business cases, optimising investment sequencing and improving visibility of dependencies, risks and return on investment
• Act as an enterprise connector across strategy, portfolio investment decisions, delivery execution and business change to maintain alignment and protect value
• Partner with senior leaders to enable successful execution through insight, challenge and early intervention, while maintaining clear accountability with programme sponsors
• Lead enterprise strategic planning cycles, including the periodic review of the strategic plan and delivery of targeted, ELT‑sponsored initiatives and deep dives

Job Requirements

This role requires a combination of strategic thinking, execution discipline, and senior stakeholder influence. We are looking for someone with:

• Proven experience developing and implementing strategy and embedding effective execution frameworks
• Extensive experience driving delivery through senior leaders across complex, matrix organisations
• A strong track record of delivering results within a target‑driven, performance‑focused environment
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence at Executive and Board level

About You

You are a strategic, enterprise‑minded leader who can translate complexity into clarity and action. You bring:

• The ability to think strategically while driving operational delivery and outcomes
• A curious, forward‑looking mindset, linking external insight to business impact
• Confidence to challenge existing ways of working and influence at the most senior levels
• Gravitas and credibility, with the ability to build trusted relationships across diverse stakeholder groups and lead high‑performing teams

You will role model our values, fostering a culture that is collaborative, inclusive, continuously improving and focused on delivering exceptional outcomes for our guests.

Why Join Us?

Working with us is about more than just a role — it’s about creating unforgettable holiday happiness for our guests and a fulfilling career for you.

Positioned within our internal structure from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President), this role is classified as a CUK03, offered as a full‑time position, on a permanent basis, with an offering of hybrid work including up to two days from home.

Read our employee experience guide to learn more about life as a Carnival UK colleague here.

We offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package, including:

• 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 support and access to a digital GP
• Life Assurance
• Parental and adoption leave
• Employee Shares Plan
• Electric Car and Cycle to Work schemes
• Onsite restaurant offering healthy cooked and grab‑and‑go meals
• Discounted retail and leisure via discounts portal

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.