Senior Project Manager - SAP

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 very capable Senior SAP Project Manager with 10+ years of delivery experience who has an excellent understanding of how large complex, global, multi-year SAP template deployments are run.

You excel in working in a fast paced environment and taking on any challenges that come your way with a positive can-do approach. You are willing to take on any project delivery roles that will ensure the program delivery is successful whether that is being Scrum Master for a geographical Release, running a short project to overcome some urgent challenges, delivering process improvments for the program or running a cutover.

You are experienced and comfortable working with large diverse globally distributed teams, and with third party suppliers.

Your knowledge and experience of Agile methods, including tools like Jira for backlogs/user stories management will be an excellent base for this role.

You have excellent stakeholder management skills and are able to engage with resources across the business in a clear and meaningful way.

You are structured, and have an analytical mind-set and excellent problem-solving skills. This means you can help to recognise and define problems that may be impacting the program and can offer and implement solutions. You can engage stakeholders on these activities and clearly communicate progress.

You are able to demonstrate the above characteristics through your previous experiences.

Key responsibilities

• As part of our program delivery team plan and deliver projects to schedule and with a high quality. We aim to maintain a high level of confidence with our internal business stakeholders
• Support wider 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
  • Delivering process/ delivery improvement activities such as helping the programme industrialise its approach to the template delivery
  
  
• Operate within the program methodology;
  • Risk & Issue Management
  • Program Release planning
  • Updating program deliverables
  • Resource Management
  • RASCI alignment
  
  
• Provide clear project status and appropriately escalate risks and issues
• 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
• Manage and build relationships with stakeholders at all level of the business appropriately and in alignment with the program's principles