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My name is Sabrina Weymiens and I am Head of Transformation in Svitzer. I am looking for a new Transformation Partner to make our new strategy come to life driving an integrated cultural and business transformation. Our vision is “leading sustainable marine services – innovating with and for people, customers and communities.” We are not starting from scratch. We have been experimenting and doing Lean Startup for the last two years, having deep conversations with customers, and spotting unmet needs. We launched a product in less than six months. It is the first green towage offering in the market and generating new growth for Svitzer.

As our new Transformation Partner, you will be shaping our transformation journey by coaching, inspiring, guiding and challenging our people. You will need grit, passion, and a founder mentality to thrive in this role.

This is us

Svitzer is a towage company, which means we help our customers manoeuvre their larger ships safely and timely in and out of port. You may have heard about the large container ship stuck in the Suez Canal – our tugboats in the region played an active role in supporting the mission of freeing the large container ship from its dire straits and we helped unlock the gridlock that global trade was experiencing due to the incident.

The Transformation Lab is a small team reporting to the CEO. Our team is located in Copenhagen with a beautiful seaside view in the up-and-coming neighborhood of Nordhavn. There is a nice gym with a sauna for the cold winter days if that’s something you’re into. We work flexibly, not because there is a policy telling us to, but because it just makes good business and work/life sense and creates an engaging work environment. As we are a global company you can expect some opportunities for travelling.

What is a Transformation Partner doing

In this role, you will increase the capacity of the many in making the transformation happen. You will coach cohorts of “Growth Teams” to help them validate or invalidate innovation opportunities. You will also coach teams working on solving root causes for customer pain points – deeply ingraining customer centricity in everything we do everyday. You will also coach self-managed teams who are hacking some of the cultural barriers to innovation, change and transformation. Think about a Hack Team of different employees coming together to hack our meeting culture for instance. You ensure people thrive collaborating, call out issues and problem-solve together. You guide them in designing and executing experiments, mapping their assumptions and bringing their learnings to make evidence-based decisions.

I think of this job as the capacity expander. You are the engineer for that snowball effect – finding ways to multiply the capacity to transform across Svitzer, well-knowing that you cannot multiply yourself. You will be the face and the heart of our new ways of working – moving one person, one team at a time. You will also shape our approach to scale up these ways of working. We don’t do that in the traditional way i.e. write a playbook, train, cross your fingers that people will use it. We re-think the way we lead change by experimenting, getting the learnings and thinking how we get the teams themselves to coach the next team.

We are a small team, which means we all roll up our sleeves. Yet, not that small as there are 4.000 people in our company who will work with us on the transformation.

Who we are looking for

If this sounds like you, I want to meet you:

• You have in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with innovation coaching.
• You’re passionate about building businesses and helping innovation teams succeed or learn fast.
• You have a passion for transformational leadership, you can role-model the change and build allyship in working differently. You are a great facilitator and love engaging any person across the organisation.
• You do not wait for a mandate, you believe that leadership is an activity, not a rank.
• You believe anything is possible. You persevere. You have the charm, charisma, enthusiasm, hard work, and mind to encourage and drive your teams to think anything is possible.
• You’re comfortable with uncertainty. You don’t fear failure. You see failure as an opportunity to learn and iterate toward a solution.
• You are a people first person, and thrive when collaborating with others. Empathy is your first language.
• You resonate with these personality traits: autonomous, structured, analytical, impact maximiser, storyteller, connected, includer, open-minded, vulnerable, team player, curious.
• You have worked in both worlds, corporate and start-up, and know how to cross-fertilize the best of both for Svitzer.
• You always wanted to work internationally, waking up talking to a team in Australia, running a workshop in Dubai over lunch, and leaving the office while catching up with Panama on their latest experiment to hack our meeting culture.

Further we expect that you:

• Have a Master degree in any relevant topic that led you to apply
• Have 5+ years of experience coaching innovation teams and innovators
• Have a high personal drive, high level of integrity, are structured, result oriented and proactive
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Application deadline

We will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis, so please submit your CV and a motivational letter outlining what you bring to this role, as soon as possible but no later than 15/11/2022. Submit your application in English online via our portal. We do not accept applications via e-mail. Please exclude from your application any information about age, gender, religion, and other factors that do not directly relate to the role. Photo is not required.

Building a Diverse Workplace

In Svitzer 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.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that members from some under-represented groups are less likely to apply for jobs if they don’t meet every single qualification. At Svitzer we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles, and we are excited about hearing from you!

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