Port Services Coordinator

5 months ago


Southampton, United Kingdom Carnival UK Full time

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. If you have more, less or different experiences, but really relevant skills, we’d love to hear from you.

We work flexibly and will help you to find a healthy balance of remote working and time in our fantastic Southampton office, collaborating, taking part in events and getting to know people that makes working with us so rewarding. We welcome the opportunity to discuss reduced hours and job share arrangements.

**The Role**

The port services team hold responsibility for all port queries internally and externally.

Acting as 'the face' of Carnival UK to its suppliers, port agents and service users the Port Services Co-ordinator assumes day-to-day responsibility for their assigned ports invoice management.

**You will**:

- Investigate and respond to queries for assigned ports from port agents, service providers and within the business via the mailbox and by telephone.
- Take ownership of Preliminary and Final Invoices received in the Port Services mailbox. Validating invoice line items, ensuring basis of cost breakdown is both understood and documented.
- Liaise with Port Cost Budget holders on tariff-based items to ensure latest tariff formulae are correctly recorded within the Port Cost Budget.
- Comparing Forecast against Actual Costs, investigating the reason for variances, liaising with Port Services Budget holders to highlight where significant differences occur, agreeing actions to resolve.

Our role categories range from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President) so you can clearly see internal development opportunities. This role is a CUK15 and is offered on a full time, permanent basis, with hybrid working of at least three days based in our Southampton office.

**About You**

Fresh ideas and different perspectives are what excite us most and help us to succeed. Alongside bringing these to the role, you’ll also need:

- Previous experience using data input via an accounts package / database.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong analytical skills, able to input accurately as well as understanding variances
- Enhanced numerical skills

**Being part of our team has its advantages**

We’re a holiday company so we know there’s more to life than work. Our comprehensive range of benefits are designed to help your personal and financial health and wellbeing.
- Home and office-based hybrid working (minimum three office days)
- Recognition scheme with prizes and awards
- Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
- 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

**_ #LI-Hybrid_**
- #Job Functions: Accounting/Auditing ;Administrative; Supply Chain_
- #LI-NL1_

**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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