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TUI Group

Service Operations Manager - Cruise

Location:  London, United Kingdom; Luton, United Kingdom
Location flexibility:  Remote-first, 1 office day / week, 2 office days / week, 3 office days / week, 4 office days / week
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Job Description

Join us as a Service Operations Manager and be the heartbeat of Marella Cruises' technology operations, keeping our systems running smoothly both onshore and onboard whilst driving a culture of service excellence.

The role will be published until September 15th.

ABOUT THE JOB

  • You'll manage technology operations for Marella Cruises, coordinating all teams and capabilities to keep our infrastructure, software, and applications running smoothly across the cruise business.
  • Taking ownership of incident and problem management, you'll issue timely communications to stakeholders whilst enabling delivery teams to maintain full ownership of resolution, including out-of-hours support for major incidents when needed.
  • Working closely with stakeholders, you'll review and report on operational performance, SLAs and KPIs, championing a service culture focused on continuous improvement and end user satisfaction.
  • You'll support the definition of operational SLAs and KPIs for all services, as well as design and implement service models for new products, including transition activities.
  • Maintaining a solid understanding of the application landscape and business functionality, you'll stay well connected with key SMEs and technology stakeholders to support incident response.
  • There'll be some travel involved to support operations and experience our amazing cruise product first-hand.

ABOUT YOU

  • Solid experience building and developing Service Operations functions with a demonstrated track record in problem, change and incident management within an agile context.
  • You hold ITIL certification or have equivalent service management experience.
  • With excellent communication skills, you've successfully engaged senior technology and business stakeholders throughout your career.
  • You're passionate about service excellence and continuous improvement, always putting customers, colleagues and the business at the centre of everything.
  • You have experience establishing and maintaining KPIs/SLAs across multiple teams, along with effective problem-solving skills and a collaborative approach.

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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Company benefits

Accrued annual leave
Adoption leave – In the UK, an enhanced pay scheme if you’re on maternity, adoption, partner or shared parental leave along with additional support as you begin your new family adventure.
Annual bonus
Annual pay rises
Bank holiday swaps
Neurodiversity assessment – As part of our private medical cover (available to eligible colleagues), you'll get access to Neurodiversity Assessment and Support for you and eligible family members aged 7 and over
Buy or sell annual leave
Car allowance
Career and family coaching
Carer’s leave
Charity donation scheme
Chill out zone
Cinema discounts
Coaching
Coffee discounts – Subsidised Costa coffee in our Luton, UK office.
Collaboration spaces – In Luton - Brand-new games area with a pool table which doubles as a ping pong table, a darts board, an air hockey table and sofa seats
Company freebies
Compassionate leave
Complimentary Medical Services
Cycle to work scheme
Dental coverage
Eldercare services
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Emergency leave
Employee assistance programme
Employee discounts
Employee recognition scheme – Regular recognition across the year.
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Eye Care Support
Faith rooms
Financial advice
Financial coaching
Further education support
Gym membership
Hackathons
Health insurance
In house training – Whole host of global learning opportunities available to all colleagues to sign up to monthly.
L&D budget
Language lessons
Learning platform
Life assurance – We provide a Life Assurance benefit which means that in the event of your death, while employed by TUI, a lump sum would be payable to your beneficiaries.
Life insurance
Lunch and learns
Meditation space
Menopause support
Mental health platform access
Mentoring
Neonatal leave
On-site catering
On-site wellness room – In Luton - wellbeing room dedicated to physical and mind wellbeing which complements our existing male and female faith and reflection rooms
Open to part time work for some roles
Personal development days
Physiotherapy
Pregnancy loss leave
Pregnancy support
Private GP service – 24/7 virtual GP available as part of our EAP in the UK&I.
Religious celebration leave
Restaurant discounts
Sabbaticals
Salary sacrifice
Share options
Shared parental leave
Teambuilding days
Travel credit
Travel insurance
Volunteer days
Will writing
Work from anywhere scheme – TUI WORKWIDE means colleagues can work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
Work from home budget – For our remote colleagues.
Health cash plan
Health assessment
Mental health support
Women’s health support
Study support
Ergonomic workstations
On-site barista – Costa coffee on offer in our Luton, UK office.
Modern office – Brand-new office opening in Autumn 2026 for UK colleagues based in Luton.
On-site shower
Private booths
Secure on-site parking
Additional voluntary pension contribution
Death in service
Legal consults
Open to compressed hours
Women’s health leave
Professional subscriptions
Personal development budgets

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