Lead Portfolio Manager (Chief of Staff)

Opportunity

Join a global leader as we embark on an industry-defining digital transformation that will revolutionise trade. You’ll play a vital part in our success, helping shape practices within Maersk Technology, and building the experience to advance your career.

Want to know how we work?

Well, our amazing Service Delivery Platform consists of several cross-functional feature teams, each tackling a different problem within our business domain. We aim to keep teams co-located and self-contained, but thrive working with stakeholders from across the organization, and we know you love to have time with your stakeholders! Scrum is our methodology of choice, and we seek to continuously refine our process to suit our needs.

We strive to empower each team with as much autonomy as possible, but don’t shy away from cross team alignment when it adds value. We feel accountable for our work, and are not afraid to take on the full DevOps responsibility for what we build. Our work culture is informal with collaboration at its center, and we believe that giving everyone a chance to be heard is the best way to achieve great results.

Does this sound like somewhere you should be working? We think so...

We offer

Maersk, the world's largest shipping company, is transforming into an industrial digital giant that enables global trade with its land, sea and port assets. We are an operations focused technology enablement team, which partners with both commercial and operational teams to ensure we deploy the right technologies in the right geographies. This position also offers the opportunity to take innovative ideas and turn them into our future.

Through Digital Transformation we identify, define and implement the mix of process, technology and culture that brings business, development and operation teams closer, allowing Maersk to deliver products faster, improve responsiveness and enhance quality for our consumers.

• We are a very diverse team with colleagues having many different backgrounds and from many different cultures
• We are operating in a working environment of a small software company combined with the benefits of a large enterprise
• We offer freedom to influence and shape the setup and the processes we use
• We offer possibilities to attend conferences, workshops and meetups

At Maersk, we focus on the individual’s development and the right candidate will have broad possibilities to further develop competencies in an environment characterized by change and continuous progress

Key responsibilities

Facilitate top initiatives in the Service Delivery portfolio driving cohesive decisioning across the leadership team and continued progress by teams.
• Facilitate and document the 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 SD 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, DataThon (Hacking Event), 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, Tech Strategy, SD Strategy) to foster continuous improvement methodologies in day-to-day activities (e.g. quality, optimization, automation)

We are looking for

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

In this role you will be the Portfolio Manager for the Service Delivery Platform, supporting the technology and governance ecosystem of data. To succeed in this role, we expect you to bring:
• 3-5+ years delivering communication content in clear, concise and compelling manner to various audiences, including Board, Business and external forums, as well as CTIO strategy communications
• Drive and ownership of complex tasks and projects to mitigate risk for the Portfolio platforms. Diligence in careful evaluation and anticipation of risks, considering mitigations before taking 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) from the leadership team
• Ability to present complicated technology concepts in a simple manner, and to communicate key technology challenges or overviews relevant to senior technology leadership (C Level Execs)
• Curiosity to learn about the Service Deliver teams and technology concepts, maintaining an extensive network with up-to-date knowledge of what has mainstream/enterprise relevance to Maersk. High ambitions and a strong appetite for personal development to make the most of this excellent career stepping stone

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience in communications, public and/or internal
Strong project management background and collaboration skills.
Intermediate or expert skills in office applications, data analysis and visualization tools.
Knowledge of the shipping and/or logistics industry
Technical background a plus.

We value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job – we value diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to: gender, age, nationality, race, sexual orientation, disability or religious beliefs.