Platform Product Owner - PTP Finance

Opportunity

In this role you will be supporting the Inland Platform as a Platform Product Owner for all matters related to Transport Management. In Maersk Inland Platform we design and implement technical solutions for transportation on land – a growing part of our business.

We are rolling out a Transportation Management system to our more than 100 countries around the world and need your help to accelerate our journey.

We offer:

Maersk is going through times of unprecedented change. From the farm to your refrigerator, or the factory to your wardrobe, we are developing solutions that meet customer needs from one end of the supply chain to the other. Digitization and IT are taking centre stage in enabling our customers to trade globally. Join us as we re-think what technology can do.

Joining Inland Platform will embark you on a great journey with career development in a global organisation. As a Platform Product Owner, you will gain broad business knowledge of the company’s activities globally, as well as understand how the complexity of IT supports the transport and logistics business.

You will be exposed to a wide and challenging range of business issues through regular engagement with key stakeholders across all management levels within Maersk.

You will work and communicate across geographical and cultural borders that will enable you to build a strong professional network. We believe people thrive when they are in charge of their career paths and professional growth. We will provide you with opportunities to broaden your knowledge and strengthen your technical and professional foundation.

By choosing Maersk, you join not only for the role, but for a career. We aim to be a world-class professional platform organisation that delivers business value through automation, standardisation, and innovation. We believe in empowerment where each of us takes ownership and responsibility for developing and implementing new ways of working.

Key responsibilities:

• Work in close collaboration across platforms and BPOs to enable new or improve existing inland product and platform features within the scope of Inland Transportation Management Procurement

• Accountable for ensuring that these solutions are integrated so they contextually make sense in the overall e2e process for different brands, entities, and products

• Accountable for a smooth and efficient system handling of the financials for our vendors and suppliers. This includes the design of functionality such as:

- Goods Receipt including optimal approval flows and with the correct financial and operational implications for Inland Transport execution,

- Global standardisation of our invoice scanning tools to improve Vendor Invoice Processing,

- Settlement and calculations of vendor transport in the system,

- System functionality supporting smooth and timely payment of vendor invoices,

- Month end closing including reports and dashboards,

- Integrations between SAP TMS and other systems to ensure seamless functionality such as self-billing, Invoice scanning etc.

- Reports, dashboards and data flows to management reporting tools like BW, Analytics Cloud etc.

• Support other PPO’s that have requirements regarding procurement functionality in our Transportation Management Systems

• Ensure our solutions can easily be reused across other platforms, while promoting a standard, global template

Who we are looking for:

• Proven Product Owner capabilities (e.g. understand the role of a PO in terms of agile ways of working with systemic backlogs, writing user stories etc) or similar Business Analysis Experience

• Solid knowledge on finance functionality and processes, maybe as Finance Business Partner, Consultant or Business Analyst

• Proven track record in implementing IT solutions

• Experience with and Insights into Finance processes, principles, and data on the Procurement side of the business

• A natural interest in technology, standardisation, and automation of processes

• Ability to lead global sessions for users and process experts/process owners and engage them in a meaningful way to arrive at product features and solutions

• Understanding user needs/ insights as well as legal / statutory /compliance requirements and ability to translate these to digital journeys, specifically to reduce manual interventions

• Ability to stay motivated in a fast-moving environment where priorities continuously shift and with pressure on delivering results

• Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines consistently

• Experience with ERP implementations at a complex organisation would be a plus

• Good Stakeholder/change management skills

• Self-motivation and a desire for continuous learning and improvement

Required Business/ Technical Knowledge

• Strong understanding of inland transportation process and customer expectations

• Understanding of vendor interactions including procurement of inland services

• Understanding of shipping/logistics processes and how inland transportation fits in