Project Manager - PMO

Opportunity

Maersk operates in more than 130 countries across the globe. Because we are moving 20% of global trade, our decisions affect millions of people worldwide. At Maersk, your technology and data expertise can be used to do amazing things. Reducing global food waste, making trade fairer, improving communities and going carbon neutral by 2050 – this is your chance to take on initiatives that can shape a better future for everyone. Join us, and let’s make these issues a priority.

Maersk is undergoing an unprecedented transformation in the growth of our businesses, rethinking the way we engage with customers and partners, and how the world’s trade flows across our global network. We are offering you a unique opportunity to help shape that journey and the future of our organization. As a part of this process, you will have an opportunity to work within global finance transformation program that will set the direction of the future Finance solution for this large global organisation.

We offer

We’re on a landmark journey to simplify global trade. It brings the chance to have a major impact on the world economy, but also, on your career development. With significant personal responsibility, you’ll improve your industry knowledge and build on your existing project management skills in highly valued roles – quite possibly at a pace that will surprise you.

We offer our Project Managers an excellent package, maternity and paternity, flexible working location and opportunities for career development are plentiful.

We are looking for

While reading the following, please consider that we value your whole skill set and expertise more than a list of “must haves”. If you believe you can aspire to this role, get in touch, even if you don’t currently have everything listed – let’s talk!

You are a strong Project Manager with 5+ years of experience who has a good understanding of Technology implementations across multiple process areas and you also understand how large complex, global, multi-year deployments are run.

You are comfortable working in a fast paced environment and taking on any challenges that come your way. This won't be a standard PMO role there will be additional and potentially stretching tasks along the way which will offer the development opportunities you are looking for. As an example you may be asked to support a Release Manager to plan and manage Agile scrum delivery or help plan and manage the Cutover of a Release.

Your knowledge and experience of Agile methods, including tools like Jira for backlogs/user stories management will be an excellent base for this role, as will your strong background in PMO Support.

You can create and maintain project plans in Microsoft Project and your excellent stakeholder management skills mean you are able to move elicit accurate and timely updates from project resources across the program.

You understand the importance of managing Risks and Issues and are able to accurately capture these and support driving them to closure.

You are structured, and have an analytical mind-set and excellent problem-solving skills and have flexibility to work on different time-zones if the work requires it.

Ideally you have an understanding of SAP projects and program with experience of how PMO is run and can bring fresh insights into the team to help us drive continuous improvement as the program develops.

Key responsibilities

Work within the PMO team to implement, maintain and promote tools and processes for monitoring and controlling project execution including JIRA, Confluence and SAP Solution Manager/ Focused Build

Support planning and delivery activities within the NFTP Program including;

Developing product backlogs in JIRA with Process teams

Building project plans in Excel and Microsoft Project as appropriate

Operate and where necessary refine key PMO processes including;

Risk & Issue Management

Program Release planning

Updating program deliverables

Resource Management

Operate within and promote an Agile delivery environment

Operate as a scrum master when required including;

Managing and prioritising a product backlog

Mapping out dependencies in collaboration with users and customers

Planning and executing Sprints and Sprint reviews

Continuously work with the sprint delivery team to refine and improve the development process

Proactively manage deployment risks and drive mitigations through problem-solving, engaging with others and being tenacious

Do all of the above always recognising the needs of stakeholders and continually striving to deliver business outcomes to our defined timeline