Opportunity

The opportunity

Help us reduce our vessel turnaround time at the terminal, optimize our terminal capacity, reduce our carbon footprint, connect our physical supply chain assets in our terminals, vessel fleet and inland logistics with IIOT and be part of the team who are building and creating one definitive Global Data & Analytics (GDA) strategy for APMT’s that moves towards growth and transform (Safer, Better, Bigger) with the goal to become the World’s Best Terminal Company.

A.P. Moller - Maersk is an integrated container logistics company and member of the A.P. Moller Group. Connecting and simplifying trade to help our customers grow and thrive. With a dedicated team of over 80,000, operating in 130 countries; we go all the way to enable global trade for a growing world. From the farm to your refrigerator, or the factory to your wardrobe, A.P. Moller - Maersk is developing solutions that meet customer needs from one end of the supply chain to the other.

We are currently looking for a Lead Portfolio Manager reporting to the Senior Director – Head of GDA, APMT & Fleet.

The role

As a Lead Portfolio Manager, you own developing and executing a strategy and roadmap to bring the APMT & Fleet Data & Analytics strategy to life. Aligning with prioritized business outcomes, it will help GDA accomplish innovation and optimise the way APM Terminals operate its terminals to outperform the competition.

• You’ll draw from a deep PPM and/or SAFe Agile expertise to identify synergies and drive operational excellence for all Engineering Scrum teams working in Global Data & Analytics APMT & Fleet.
• You’ll engage with Finance, HR, Portfolio Product Teams, Transformation Office and other staff functions to ensure lean and effective processes internally in all Engineering Scrum Teams and in the interfaces with APMT, Fleet, Decarbonization, IoT platform team, Portfolio Product team, Business team and other platform teams.
• Hire, lead and mentor data product owners and drive the overall data products strategy for APM Terminals and Fleet.

Who we are looking for?

You'll be a communicator and collaborator with similar previous demonstrated experience and be comfortable working with executive and leadership teams across diverse and complex organisations.

• A dedicated and enthusiastic learner with more than 5-6 years of experience performing similar role in a diverse organization distributed across the globe delivering communication content in clear, concise and compelling manner to various audience.
• Facilitate and document the prioritization of our GDA APMT and Fleet Portfolio including content preparation and analysis, rationalize and distill across a large leadership team for cohesive decisioning and messaging
• Facilitate and document the GDA APMT & Fleet Leadership strategy – zoom in on relevant topics to the broader team to ensure visibility and tracking of key progress and incoming scope, including Town Halls, Leadership Off-sites, and Executive briefings for organizational imperatives and communications (e.g., annual goals, organizational strategies, etc.)
• Develop reusable content, with quarterly refresh of communications materials tailored by audience type (External, Business and Technical) given a variety of templates and formats
• Oversee the Portfolio (budget, resources, etc..) submissions with Finance partners and Directors. Collaborate with HR Partners on recruiting, including headcount to sourcing and final start. Develop cost allocation recommendations relative to strategic priorities, including resource quality and consolidation, minimizing forecast variances.
• Facilitate employee engagement, including activities such as team celebratory events, Hackathons, Software Engineering training/Upskill programs and Industry Engagement and planning of conferences Develop, document and publish an automated product value and success metric framework (linked directly to the Business Outcomes, Data & Analytics Strategy) to foster continuous improvement methodologies in day-to-day activities (e.g. quality, optimization, automation) Ownership and delivery of complex tasks and projects to mitigate risk for the GDA APMT & Fleet team. Diligence in careful evaluation and anticipation of risks, considering mitigations before taking any action, clearly articulating options and their impacts/consequences. Course correction, expecting to fail fast and respond efficiently.
• Ability to facilitate ongoing prioritization discussions, obtain consensus among stakeholders and carry those decisions through to communication materials, with refresh as needed
• Excellent interpersonal skills including teamwork, issue resolution, negotiation, and relationship management. Ability to demonstrate value by alleviating communications and portfolio prioritization workload(s)
• Ability to present complicated technology concepts in a simple manner, and to communicate key technology challenges or overviews relevant to senior technology leadership.
• Curiosity to learn about the technology landscape that enables APM Terminals, maintaining an extensive network with up-to-date knowledge of what has mainstream/enterprise relevance to Maersk.
• Aspirational and a strong appetite for personal development to make the most of this excellent career

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in communications, public and/or internal
• Knowledge of the shipping and/or logistics industry
• Agile ways of working in technology led organizations