Lead, MAST Project Portfolio

The MAST (Maritime Asset Strategy & Transformation) Portfolio Lead (Project
Portfolio) is responsible for the day-to-day management and coordination of the
MAST project portfolio, ensuring accurate, timely, and decision-ready
information across all initiatives.

The role acts as a central point of coordination between delivery teams and
leadership, owning portfolio artefacts, facilitating key forums, and ensuring
the right level of detail, insight, and challenge is applied to support
successful delivery. This role blends portfolio governance, reporting,
facilitation, and delivery enablement to drive clarity, alignment, and momentum
across the program.

Essential Functions:

* Portfolio Management & Control: Maintain an accurate, end-to-end view of the
project portfolio (plans, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies), Own and
manage portfolio artefacts including roadmaps, dashboards, RAID logs, and
integrated plans, Ensure consistency and quality of data across all
initiatives

* Reporting & Insights: Produce clear, concise, decision-ready reporting for
leadership forums, Identify and communicate portfolio trends, risks, and
delivery concerns, Translate complex project information into meaningful
insights

* Facilitation & Engagement: Facilitate portfolio and project forums, ensuring
discussions are focused and outcome-driven, Drive alignment, clarity, and
follow-through across delivery teams, Draw out the right level of detail from
stakeholders

* Stakeholder Management: Partner with project managers, delivery leads, and
senior stakeholders, build strong working relationships across the portfolio,
Provide constructive challenge and support to ensure delivery confidence

* Governance & Decision Support: Support governance forums with materials,
insight, and recommendations, Track decisions, actions, and changes to ensure
follow-through, Enable prioritisation and trade-off discussions

* Dependency & Risk Management: Identify and manage cross-project dependencies
and interlocks, Surface risks early and support mitigation planning, Ensure
transparency of delivery risks across the portfolio

* Portfolio Planning & Coordination: Support development and maintenance of
integrated portfolio plans, align timelines, sequencing, and deliverables
across initiatives, Ensure alignment with strategic priorities

* Continuous Improvement: Improve portfolio reporting, artefacts, and
processes, Reduce complexity and drive pragmatic ways of working

* Ad Hoc Support: Support strategic initiatives, workshops, and deep dives as
required

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

* Scope: Supports a portfolio of projects across MAST, providing coordination,
visibility, and project governance to ensure initiatives are aligned,
controlled, and effectively delivered.

* Problem-solving: Identifies inconsistencies, risks, and gaps in portfolio
information and delivery plans, working with stakeholders to resolve issues,
improve clarity, and drive better outcomes across the portfolio.

* Impact: Directly impacts the quality of decision-making, delivery confidence,
and successful coordination of initiatives, enabling leadership to
effectively manage priorities, risks, and outcomes.

* Leadership: Leads through facilitation, coordination, and influence rather
than direct authority; acts as a central enabler of collaboration, alignment,
and delivery success across project teams.

For all roles:

* Knowledge: Understanding of workplace policies and procedures / Familiarity
with team collaboration tools and techniques.

• Skills:  Strong time management and organizational skills

* Abilities: Ability to maintain reliable and consistent attendance / Capacity
to be punctual and meet deadlines / Ability to collaborate effectively with
colleagues and work as part of a team / Demonstrated professionalism in all
interactions and tasks.

Qualifications:

• Degree or equivalent relevant experience preferred
• Bachelor’s degree preferred

* Project/portfolio management certification (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2, Agile)
beneficial

• 3 to 4 years of relevant work experience
• Experience in project, program, or portfolio management environments
• Proven ability to manage or coordinate multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Experience in reporting, governance, and stakeholder management

* Strong facilitation experience, including leading meetings and driving
outcomes

• Experience working with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams

Travel: No or very little travel likely

Work Conditions: Work primarily in a climate-controlled environment with minimal
safety/health hazard potential.

Physical Demands: Work primarily in a climate-controlled environment with
minimal safety/health hazard potential.

This position is classified as “in-office.”  As an in-office role, it requires
employees to work from a designated Carnival office in South Florida Monday
through Thursday each week. Employees may work from their homes on Fridays. 
Candidates must be located in (or willing to relocate to) the Miami/Ft.
Lauderdale area.

Offers to selected candidates will be made on a fair and equitable basis, taking
into account specific job-related skills and experience.

At Carnival, your total rewards package is much more than your base salary. All
non-sales roles participate in an annual cash bonus program, while sales roles
have an incentive plan. Director and above roles may also be eligible to
participate in Carnival’s discretionary equity incentive plan. Plus, Carnival
provides comprehensive and innovative benefits to meet your needs, including:

* Health Benefits: 

* Cost-effective medical, dental and vision plans 
* Employee Assistance Program and other mental health resources 
* Additional programs include company paid term life insurance and disability
coverage  
* Financial Benefits: 
* 401(k) plan that includes a company match 
* Employee Stock Purchase plan 
* Paid Time Off 
* Holidays – All full-time and part-time with benefits employees receive days
off for 8 company-wide holidays, plus 2 additional floating holidays to be
taken at the employee’s discretion.  
* Vacation Time – All full-time employees at the manager and below level
start with 14 days/year; director and above level start with 19 days/year. 
Part-time with benefits employees receive time off based on the number of
hours they work, with a minimum of 84 hours/year.  All employees gain
additional vacation time with further tenure. 
* Sick Time – All full-time employees receive 80 hours of sick time each
year.  Part-time with benefits employees receive time off based on the
number of hours they work, with a minimum of 60 hours each year.   
* Other Benefits 
* Complementary stand-by cruises, employee discounts on confirmed cruises,
plus special rates for family and friends 
* Personal and professional learning and development resources including
tuition reimbursement  
* On-site Fitness center at our Miami campus

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About Us

Carnival Corporation & plc is the world’s largest leisure travel company, our
mission to deliver unforgettable happiness to our guest through our diverse
portfolio of leading cruise brands and island destinations, including Carnival
Cruise Line, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, and Seabourn in North
America and Australia; P&O Cruises and Cunard Line in the United Kingdom; AIDA
in Germany; Costa Cruises in Southern Europe.

Join us and embark on a career that offers not only the chance to grow
professionally but also the opportunity to be part of a global community that
makes a difference.

In addition to other duties/functions, this position requires full commitment
and support for promoting ethical and compliant culture. More specifically, this
position requires integrity, honesty, and respectful treatment of others, as
well as a willingness to speak up when they see misconduct or have concerns.

Carnival Corporation & plc and Carnival Cruise Line is an equal employment
opportunity/affirmative action employer. In this regard, it does not
discriminate against any qualified individual on the basis of sex, race, color,
national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, mental,
physical or sensory disability, or any other classification protected by
applicable local, state, federal, and/or international law.

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