Senior UX Designer

Opportunity

Maersk is the largest shipping and container logistics company in the world. A $40bn organisation with over 85,000 people, we ship roughly 20% of the world’s container freight. We’re bringing our organisation together to become an integrated container shipping and logistics company, fundamentally re-thinking how we do business. Improving our customer experience is a core priority.

Technology systems are an integral part of this change. We're re-crafting both our customer-facing systems and our data-intensive operational ones, to provide outstanding services and experience to our customers.

We Offer:

Joining Maersk will embark you on a great journey with career development in a global organization. As a User Experience Designer you will gain broad business knowledge of the company’s activities globally, as well as take part in the digitization of the transport and logistics industry.

You will work and communicate across geographical and cultural borders that will enable you to build a strong professional network. We will provide you with opportunities that broaden your knowledge and strengthen your technical and professional foundation.

Maersk's Platform model employs modern technological working practices in the centre of its business operations, meaning that our Designers have direct impact on the products they with - and are able to measure their outcomes.

We've got plenty of knotty, challenging problems to solve as we flex a thirty billion dollar business.

This role is part of the Procurement platform that is a service function within A.P. Moller Maersk supporting our business units globally. The Maersk Procurement vision is: “Every dollar spent is spent professionally”; enabled by the Maersk Procurement Platform. The vision applies to upstream procurement where the ambition is to develop solutions that digitizes and automates strategic procurement processes across all business areas, as well as downstream where there is an opportunity to address complex Source2Pay and industry specific challenges with innovative solutions to ensure an automated process as well as a much-improved vendor experience for our partners.

Key responsibilities:

As a Designer in Maersk, you are responsible for making things happen. You have the agency to run the design process in its broadest form, collaborating with others.

As part of a multi-disciplinary Product team, you are a champion for human-centered design and ensuring validated experiences. You can balance the tensions of desirable, viable and feasible as part of the continuous delivery of a long-standing team.

Your work will follow Agile practices, engage with customers to map and design their journey, and help the Product Owner build the backlog.

Key responsibilities include:

- Bridge between users and our organization

- Facilitating ideation and co-creation sessions

- Rapid prototyping

- Validation and iteration of concepts / prototypes with your stakeholders (users, business)

- Be resourceful and creative to overcome obstacles and turn challenges into opportunities.

- Alignment with business, IT product managers, (front-end) web developers, UX strategy, architects and brand

- Applying and extending on principles and guidelines

We are looking for:

- 5+ years of experience from and proven track record as UX designer within (Agile) software development in a product organization, in-house or at an agency

- Experience in working in an international environment.

- Fluent in the English language, both verbal and in writing.

- Excellent communication skills, able to build and maintain relationships.

- Analytical skills and user-centered approach.

- Collaborative mindset, open to feedback.

- Great with design and prototyping tools (e.g. Figma, Axure)

- Knowledge of modern web technology and cloud

You are a great communicator and an acknowledged team player with a high degree of personal integrity. You are able to lift the bar and energize people around you, while maintaining a strong personal drive and the ability to get things done.

On application we would like to see more of you – so please submit your portfolio!

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.