Sr. Lead, Technical Procurement

Marine Services Manager  – Marine Technical Procurement

Location: Weybridge, UK

Journey with us

Bring your technical procurement experience to a global Marine Procurement team supporting one of the world’s largest cruise fleets. Royal Caribbean Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, strong career development opportunities, and the chance to work in a dynamic, international environment.

About Royal Caribbean Group

Royal Caribbean Group is the world’s largest cruise line, operating globally across an exciting and fast-moving industry. Our teams are passionate, innovative and focused on continuously improving how we work.

Job Summary

The Marine Services Manager is responsible for developing and managing the company’s marine services portfolio, ensuring safe, reliable, competitive, and sustainable service delivery across the fleet and marine operations.

As Marine Services Manager, you will lead the development and execution of category strategies, sourcing and contracting activities, supplier management, and performance improvement initiatives within Marine Services. Working closely with Technical, Operations, Projects, Finance, and other Procurement teams, the Marine Services Manager ensures that commercial solutions support operational requirements while delivering cost efficiency, supply security, standardization, and long-term value.

You will source specialist products and services, negotiate with suppliers, manage contracts and use market insight, spend analysis and supplier performance data to deliver commercially strong procurement solutions.

This role is well suited to a procurement professional with experience in strategic category management, or a service manager within the maritime industry, transport, manufacturing or asset-intensive environment.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and execute category strategies and roadmaps for assigned Marine Services categories
• Lead strategic sourcing activities, tenders, commercial negotiations, and contract awards
• Develop fit-for-purpose commercial models, rate structures, service levels, and contractual frameworks
• Act as the commercial focal point between Marine Procurement, Technical, Operations, and suppliers
• Establish structured supplier relationship and performance management for strategic suppliers
• Develop transparency of spend, demand, rates, and total cost across Marine Services
• Establish baselines and track savings, cost avoidance, and value creation
• Resolve commercial, supplier and operational queries in line with procurement strategy

Work Environment

• Up to 25% domestic and international travel as necessary

What we’d love you to have:

• At least 5 years’ experience as a service manager, working within category management, strategic sourcing or supplier management
• Background in technical, engineering, maritime, transport, manufacturing or other asset-intensive environments
• Experience buying technical products or services, such as marine equipment, ship systems, engineering components, maintenance services, repairs, spares, new-build or retrofit categories
• Strong knowledge of supplier management, specification-led sourcing and contract management
• Excellent negotiation, communication and stakeholder management skills
• highly self-driven and proactive, with a strong sense of ownership. Taking initiative, moving tasks forward independently, and can maintain momentum until results are delivered
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a global, fast-moving environment
• Beneficial: Degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain Management or similar; CIPS or equivalent procurement qualification
  
  

If this sounds like the right next step for you, we’d love to hear from you.

You can expect a unique global opportunity, exciting challenges and great colleagues in one of the world’s largest cruise operators.

It is the policy of the Company to ensure equal employment and promotion opportunity to qualified candidates without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, sexuality, gender identity or expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Royal Caribbean Group and each of its subsidiaries prohibit and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment.

Thank you for your interest in Royal Caribbean Group. We hope to see you onboard soon.

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