Platform Product Owner | Denmark | UK

Opportunity

The Business Platforms organization is at the forefront of developing cutting edge technologies to improve the customer’s experience with personalized and automated end-to-end digital journeys, that enable Maersk customers to access standardized products and services seamlessly. The Platforms help enable Maersk’s vision to be the Global Integrator of container logistics, connecting and simplifying customers’ supply chains. Additionally, the team creates the foundation to integrate data, systems and processes, powered by scalable Digital Infrastructure and APIs.

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.

What do we bring to the table?
A role in leading the digital transformation in worldwide logistics and impacting global trade via the largest container shipping company in the world!

• The ability to influence the digitization on an industry and use digital advancements as the center-point of the transformation
• We are passionate about using technology to solve our customers supply chain challenges all over the globe.
• We value opinions and experiences across our diverse teams with colleagues from different backgrounds and cultures
• We offer the freedom and responsibility, to shape the setup and processes we use in our community
• A focused but balanced working environment, where we are passionate about continuous learning and self growth, including through our active community of practices, 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

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.

Key responsibilities

Maersk is looking for Product Owners who are smart, passionate, enjoy working in a multi-cultural, cross-functional environment and build solutions that will transform a traditional but highly critical supply chain industry and build new, innovative solutions never built before! This is an opportunity to define, build, and deliver initiatives that have direct and huge on the Maersk business. It’s never been a more exciting time to join the leader in global container distribution. Our pivot to building competitive advantage through technology means we are re-thinking how we engage our customers and partners. Your role in Product would be centre stage.

This is a great position for someone who can deliver customer-centric solutions with leadership and influence on technology, product and business teams. You will be expected to make appropriate trade-offs to optimize time-to-market, clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal cross-functional and remote project teams.

In this highly visible role, with ownership, accountability, great communication and relationship skills, being a team player, an innovator, and always being data-driven, you will help shape the strategy that will positively millions of containers and shipments around the world. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the next generation of Maersk Logistics.

On any given day, the Product Owner will be
• Responsible for the product roadmap that is aligned with business objectives, and translate it into goals for the individual teams.
• Own Communications with the wider team around milestone and release plans along with owning the product backlog
• Research and specify new features and enhancements to existing features. Document the requirements via well defined specifications and review with the team and stakeholders
• Bring together engineers, designers, and departments from around the company to build and release product features & capabilities as per plan
• You will orchestrate and be ultimately responsible for projects and products within your own track, and be able to define and track core KPI(s).
• Champion customer and stakeholder needs throughout project execution, ensuring that what is delivered meets the original goals and objectives
• Act quickly on trends and opportunities by staying up to date on an extremely dynamic and competitive industry
• Collaborate with UX designers for the discovery and design phases of a feature
• Create, monitor, and evaluate the impact of experiments using a combination of analytical tools & research methods
• And when a product ships, popping the cork from the champagne bottle to celebrate!

We are looking for

These requirements would make you a great fit for the role
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
• 7+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams
• 5+ years of technical program management experience, with capability to understand the business, think innovatively, defend features and prioritization, write user stories and drive roadmaps and timelines
• Ability to write basic SQL queries
• Experience overseeing roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience with feature delivery and trade-offs of a product
• Proven track record of customer obsession.
• Demonstrated ability to think both strategically and tactically
• Experience with end-to-end product delivery, working with all stakeholders, and measuring results Vs. intended KPIs
• Ability to prioritize in an ambiguous environment
• Demonstrated ability to formulate data-driven decisions that lead to results
• Demonstrated ability to conceptualize, manage, and prioritize multiple projects
• Experience in Agile/SCRUM enterprise-scale software development
• Proven communication and relationship skills

We would be thrilled if you had these additional qualifications
• Sound technical and product/business judgment
• MBA/Software Engineering Educational Qualification