Hotel Refurbishment Manager

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.

You will be required to work in our Southampton office on average one day per week. 
The role will be published until 4th May.

Salary package of £37,000 to £40,000 per annum, reflecting your experience and skills. 

ABOUT OUR OFFER
•    Personal benefits: Attractive salary, bonus schemes, extensive (travel-related) benefits, extensive support for (mental) well-being and more.
•    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.*
•    A career to shape: Access to the TUI Learning hub and 'level-up' to pursue ambitions.
•    Expand your network: We encourage international collaboration and the opportunity to work on international projects/in international teams.
•    Community: Be involved in local good causes and sustainability initiatives such as the TUI Care Foundation.

ABOUT THE JOB
•    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.
•    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.
•    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.
•    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.
•    As signage coordinator, you'll handle all vessel signage requirements, liaising effectively with our product and brand teams to maintain consistent branding.
•    Your expertise will help develop and implement standardization of hotel refurbishment materials and equipment, maintaining a comprehensive catalog to ensure consistency across the fleet.

ABOUT YOU
•    You have a recognised qualification and/or period of role-based training from either marine design or hotel refurbishment industry and related trades.
•    We're looking for someone with proven experience in planning and providing logistical support in managing contractor trades.
•    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.
•    Knowledge and understanding of the constraints and legislation involved in marine industry projects is essential for this role.
•    You possess a broad working knowledge of equipment and materials manufacturers and suppliers supporting the marine hotel refurbishment industry.
•    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.

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.

We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities and impairments so if you require any support, please do let us know.

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