Hotel Manager / General Manager

<p> Are you passionate about creating exceptional spaces on cruise ships? As our Hotel Refurbishment Manager at TUI, you'll play a crucial role in implementing and managing hotel refurbishment strategies across the Marella Cruises fleet, ensuring our vessels maintain the high standards our guests expect. <br><p> You will be required to work in our Southampton office on average one day per week. <br> The role will be published until 31th May. <br></p><p> Salary package of <b>£37,000 to £40,000 per annum </b> , reflecting your experience and skills. </p><p><b> ABOUT OUR OFFER </b><br>• Personal benefits: Attractive salary, bonus schemes, extensive (travel-related) benefits, extensive support for (mental) well-being and more. <br>• Flexible working: Work is something you do, not a place you go. We encourage a healthy work-life balance within a dynamic, flexible working environment.*<br>• A career to shape: Access to the TUI Learning hub and 'level-up' to pursue ambitions. <br>• Expand your network: We encourage international collaboration and the opportunity to work on international projects/in international teams. <br>• Community: Be involved in local good causes and sustainability initiatives such as the TUI Care Foundation. <br></p><p><b> ABOUT THE JOB </b><br>• You'll manage hotel refurbishment projects from initial scoping through to delivery of the final product, ensuring high-quality results that enhance our guests' experience. <br>• Working alongside the technical operations team, you'll develop a robust strategy for training and skills checks of specific trained specialists and dedicated riding crews to be deployed around the fleet. <br>• We'll rely on you to collaborate with technical and hotel teams to define standards of repair and defect reporting, ensuring these standards are consistently met across all vessels. <br>• Together with the Senior Hotel Refurbishment Manager, you'll define project scopes for riding teams and ensure correct materials and tools reach vessels ahead of deployment. <br>• As signage coordinator, you'll handle all vessel signage requirements, liaising effectively with our product and brand teams to maintain consistent branding. <br>• Your expertise will help develop and implement standardization of hotel refurbishment materials and equipment, maintaining a comprehensive catalog to ensure consistency across the fleet. <br></p><p><b> ABOUT YOU </b><br>• You have a recognised qualification and/or period of role-based training from either marine design or hotel refurbishment industry and related trades. <br>• We're looking for someone with proven experience in planning and providing logistical support in managing contractor trades. <br>• You bring a willingness and genuine interest in developing and expanding existing expertise and applying it to enhance the customer product offering on Marella Cruises ships. <br>• Knowledge and understanding of the constraints and legislation involved in marine industry projects is essential for this role. <br>• You possess a broad working knowledge of equipment and materials manufacturers and suppliers supporting the marine hotel refurbishment industry. <br>• Strong communication skills are vital as you'll be collaborating with various stakeholders including the Head of Technical Operations, Hotel Operations Team, and Customer Experience department. </p><p> From a workplace to a place to belong. At TUI we embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion, encouraging everyone to come as you are, because together, our potential is limitless. </p><p><br> We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities and impairments so if you require any support, please do let us know. </p><p>#LI-CH1 #LI-Hybrid </p>