Talent Acquisition Consultant

At Carnival UK, we’re proud to be a leading name in the holiday sector, dedicated to creating unforgettable holiday happiness for our guests. As we continue to grow and innovate, we’re looking for a Talent Acquisition Consultant to join our team and bring fresh insight and expertise to support our corporate functions.

This is a 12-month fixed-term contract based at our Southampton office, with hybrid working available.

**Role Overview**

As a Talent Acquisition Consultant, you’ll work closely with hiring managers across various corporate functions to define and deliver high-quality sourcing strategies that support great hiring decisions. You’ll be a trusted advisor, helping shape recruitment activity that’s aligned with business priorities and delivered with care, consistency, and professionalism.

**This pivotal role will involve**:

- Partnering with business functions to deliver tailored resourcing solutions, using internal and external recruitment data to inform decisions
- Translating role requirements into effective sourcing and selection strategies
- Using tools and platforms to proactively attract top talent, offering a value-added service that rivals external agencies
- Supporting hiring managers through the full recruitment lifecycle
- Building strong relationships across the business to understand needs and deliver impactful hiring outcomes

This role is positioned at CUK09 level within our organisation and is available on a full-time, fixed term basis for 12 months. We offer hybrid work including up to two days from home.

**What You'll Bring**

Your unique background and skills are what will make you stand out. We're looking for:

- Experience in resourcing or recruitment, ideally within a service-led environment
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, collaboration, and communication skills
- A delivery-focused mindset with a strong sense of accountability
- A team-oriented approach and a love for working collaboratively

**Application Guidance**

**Why Join Us?**

Working with us means more than just a role in the People team. It’s about being part of a team that values well-being and personal growth.

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

CUK-employee-experience-guide-July-2025.pdf

**Here’s what we offer**:

- Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
- Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
- 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
- Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme

**Take the next step**

**Recruitment Journey**

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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.