Opportunity

You’ll play a vital part in our success and in this role you will be a key driver in building our digital core SAP Transportation Management for our Inland Platform.

Maersk is on multi-year program to revamp its technology and digital solutions footprint and as part of new strategy, SAP will act as the ‘digital core’ for company’s Transportation Management processes.

While we once relied on various Delivery partners in our transformation, we are now continuing to invest into building our internal SAP TM capabilities.

As SAP Project and Programme Manager you will be leading a team responsible for rolling out SAP TM and integrating various solutions into our IT Landscape. You will work with development teams & business stakeholders in various locations, eg. Copenhagen, USA, Pune, Bangalore, as well as our consulting partners.

Key responsibilities

• Responsible for leading and driving our SAP TM programme for our Inland Platform, from continuing Solution Design, through build and test and onwards to a multi-year parallel release plan.
• Work with our Inland platform team comprised of technology and business people and our consulting partners to shape, plan and deliver the deployments on a global basis;
• Develop enduring relationships with key leaders and senior stakeholders to effectively govern the programme and deliver significant benefits back to the business;
• Work with the wider team to develop and deliver rapid deployment approaches to create an industrialised approach to roll-out;
• Work with the programme release management team and our consulting partners to plan detailed approach to delivery;
• Co-ordinate the activities of the PMO to provide daily oversight of programme related actitivities;
• Report progress to leadership and manage the agenda of the bi-weekly OpCo;
• Manage plans through to execution including shaping, driving, co-ordinating activities and providing daily updates on progress against plans;
• Ensure Individual product workstreams have coherent plans and are performing to expectation;
• Proactively manage programme risks and issues and drive mitigations.

We are looking for

Experience & Technical Skills

• At least 15 years’ experience in implementing SAP across multiple process areas for large complex organisations. SAP TM experience highly desirable;
• Significant experience of leading large complex, global, multi-year SAP Programmes;
• Experience of working with large diverse and distributed teams (including offshore) to deliver global template programmes and subsequent roll-outs;
• In depth knowledge and experience of SAP Activate methodology and Solution Manager. Knowledge and experience of Agile methods also very useful;
• Experience of working collaboratively with consulting partners to deliver successful programmes
• Bachelor's Degree.

Ways of working

Very strong communication and collaboration skills;

Excellent leadership skills and ability to drive for results;

Structured, highly analytical mind-set and excellent problem-solving skills;

Collaborative, with strong mentoring and people skills / personal impact;

Highly motivated and work well under pressure;

Innovative, with the ability to think outside the box;

An individual who respects the opinion of others; yet can drive a decision though the team;

Credible with senior stakeholders and able to hold their own in conversations at this level.

As a person:

Self-starter, highly motivated and with leadership quality

Cultural understanding and experienced working in multi-cultural teams

Willing to share knowledge and work as a team

Proficient in English

Service Minded

As a performance-oriented company, we strive to always recruit the best person for the job - regardless of gender, age, nationality, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.