Product Owner - FLOW Warehousing & Distribution Services

Maersk is going through times of unprecedented change. We are rethinking the way we engage with both customers and partners, and the Digital organization plays a key part in enabling the company’s journey.

In close cooperation with the business lines we work on software products that help Maersk to develop further on the path of becoming the global integrator of container logistics - connecting and simplifying our customers' supply chain. Our value creation is enables through digitizing our assets and data driven optimization of our operational processes, with a keen focus on increasing our revenues and reducing our costs to operate.

In the Storage & Distribution Platform we bring containers, trailers and our customers' products into depots and warehouses to ensure secure storage, inventory tracking, handling, and onward distribution to the next stage of the supply chain. We work to develop new capabilities, configure available functionality for our operations, and implement new customer programs utilizing our warehousing management systems and yard management systems, both off-the-shelf and in-house developed technology.

If you are passionate about enabling technology within our most operational business environments, working in a global team to drive business value creation through digitalization, and developing and implementation a winning platform strategy, then we want to hear from you.

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

At Maersk 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.

We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.

Key responsibilities

• Take ownership of our current global Warehouse Management System landscape used for our FLOW warehousing services, building and driving a future application roadmap that bring greater standardization and simplification to our business in the years to come. FLOW services include both Consolidation (batching small unique shipments into larger aggregate shipments for onward transportation to a common destination) and Deconsolidation (breaking down aggregate shipments into their smaller unique shipments for transportation to diverse destinations) programs.

• Work in close collaboration with many of our Business Product Owners whose success is enabled by our ability to delivery technology to their operations and customers. These business product owners are driving growth in both ambient and cold storage warehousing segments, as well as Less-Than-Container Load (LCL), Less-Than-Trailer Load (LTL), and Airfreight handling services.

• Drive Business Product Owners to deliver on an effective Internal Process Owner model which is critical for the success of testing, training, and operational acceptance for new customer implementations.

• Support Business Product Owners in their efforts to secure the required technology funding for both strategic and tactical projects which they are driving.

• Drive finance business partners to deliver accurate cost transparency for related platform running and development (change) activities.

• Ensure business requirements and functional specification documentation is sufficiently detailed so as to enable a technology build team to deliver on any developments or enhancements which are prioritized by the business.

• Direct assigned technical build teams as to both the high-level roadmap vision, backlog prioritization, and support sprint level work planning. Balancing the capacity of technology resources against the demands of the business.

• Take ownership of vendor relationships for key software providers and technical consulting partners who are critical for the success of the platform.

We are looking for

• 10 years project implementation experience in Warehouse Management Systems, specifically relating to consolidation and deconsolidation programs. Able to confidently assess an implementation's readiness by identifying and highlighting gaps in project plans, technology configuration, user acceptance testing, operational training, go-live checklists, and hypercare support.

• 15 years frontline experienced in warehouse consolidation and deconsolidation operations which make use of warehouse management systems. While this is a business oriented role, it is important that our team is confident in the function of technology, including having good insights into customer needs and frontline operational pain points, and user level knowledge of the base functions of the applications we are deploying.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills required for achieving results in a highly matrixed global logistics company.

• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly how to work through business administrative processes in the context of securing the right support and approvals for enabling positive results.

• Ability to think big in shaping the long-term vision of the Storage & Distribution platform.

• Familiarity with the disciplines of Agile product development, including a commitment to enforcing Agile as our change management model, to ensure controls are maintained by all parties.

• Commercial mindset with a natural interest in closely following competition, industry trends and new technologies that become available. Self-motivated toward business continuous improvement and personal continuous learning.

• A strong drive to get things done, specifically to multi-task and meet deadlines consistently. Ability to stay motivated in a fast-moving environment where priorities continuously shift and with pressure on delivering results