Platform Product Owner

Opportunity

Maersk is looking for regional Platform Product Owners who will work closely with internal business, operations and engineering colleagues as well as our customers to manage the demand and prioritize customer implementations.  As well as managing the pipeline the PPO will need to ensure the solutions delivered work towards achieving the right business outcome. 

A successful candidate will be highly analytical, able to work extremely effectively in a matrix organization, and adept at synthesizing a variety of technologies, business models and capabilities into high quality, simple products that customers love.

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.

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.

On any given day, the Product Owner will be:

As a Platform Product Owner you will manage MPL product implementation supporting finance flow, manage pipeline and prioritize customer implementations working closely with engineering teams and Product organization. You will be responsible for monitoring MPL (Maersk Projects Logistics) FinOps pipelines to ensure swift support with technical design, solutioning, costs, time validation for opportunities at different stages of platform development. This role is inherently cross-functional, and you will work closely with engineering, business development, operations and other product teams. One of the key deliverables will be to integrate the current MPL systems with new Finance Platform (NFTP) as part of our modernized platform Journey to make the process efficient for internal and external customers and is compliant as per Finance standards.

• Work closely with the senior Finance operations teams and stay close to the pipeline development.
• Own integration roadmap between MPL and NFTP platform with a strong ownership of developing and defining the milestones to reach end outcome
• Continuously align with product FPOs and Engineering teams to match with available capacity.
• Liaise with Maersk business product stakeholders and engineering teams to define delivery solutions that are in line with business priorities and roadmaps.
• Manage prioritization and trade-offs between customer experience, business requirements, technical limitations, performance and operations.
• Provide insights and learnings to 2-in-the-box owners with regard to opportunity profile trends and customer demand, that could have an impact on the road map.
• Engage with other PPO community to make sure we align solutions across platforms and feasibilities and delivery timelines for those integration solutions.

• Work with assigned engineer and regional tech implementation team, to understand capacity and pipeline, to better prepare possible scenarios with customers, regarding delivery dates and acceptance criteria.
• Responsible to turn raw data into information and insight, which can be used to make business decisions.
• - Define Key Performance Indicators that are easy to understand, action oriented, and provide the appropriate level of drill down and summary to meet the needs of customers on the front lines of our business
• - Cleaning, analyzing, interpreting, and displaying data using different approaches and business intelligence tools.
• -Analyzing local, national, and global trends that impact both the organization and the industry
• Using statistical tools to identify, analyze, and interpret patterns and trends in complex data sets could be helpful for the diagnosis and prediction.
• -  Analyze data sets to find ways to solve problems relating to a business or customers. Communicate effective information pro-actively to management and other stakeholders.
• - Establish and maintain a baseline for reporting performance and availability.
• - Partner with cross functional stakeholders to validate business rules that reduce data ambiguity

Who we are looking for

• Good understanding of Logistics and Services, particularly Finance processes. 
• Demonstrate a combination of technical engineering knowledge and an effective business acumen. 
• Customer centricity and ability to understand complex problems / customer scopes and link it to draft solutions and set of requirements.
• Delivery focused with excellent attention to detail and drive to resolve issues. 
• Interpersonal skills and capability to deal diplomatically in conflicting interest situations. 
• Ability to demonstrate strong leadership skills by using sound judgements to make timely and effective decisions.
• Ability to understand the complexity of a global conglomerate and the role of technology as an integrated part of the business.
• Experience of Agile scrum methodology.
• Have a strong focus on standardization and delivery.
• Well organized and independent to prioritize and meet deadlines.
• Accountability – Ability to operate remotely and independently, maintaining standards that lead to high performance and execution.
• Collaboration – Ability to influence and manage up when working together across boundaries.
• Critical Thinking - The ability to approach problems logically and make informed decisions based on the data.
• Attention to Detail - Ensuring accuracy in data analysis and recognizing anomalies or errors in data.

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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