Operational Excellence Partner

Job Description

We have a view beyond the ocean: integrating container logistics, connecting, and simplifying our customers' supply chain. We count on our people to make that happen!

Join us as we embark on a digital transformation that will revolutionize the logistics business: you will play a vital role in our success, managing the customer experience and building a successful track in your career.

What do we offer?

We are on a revolutionary journey to simplify global trade, which will give us the chance to offer a major impact on the world economy, and on your career. With significant personal responsibility, you will hone your industry knowledge and build highly valued business skills and communication skills into customer-facing roles – quite possibly at a pace that will surprise you.

Energizing and pioneering, this is also an environment that keeps you motivated. You will join a genuinely diverse and talented team that is enthusiastic about focusing on customers, and colleagues.

Our opportunity

We are looking for our new Operational Excellence Partner to ensure that we can run continuous improvement initiatives locally to eliminate waste in the processes. Share best practice across areas, regions to ensure that we harvest value across the organization. Anchor changes to how we operate in an updated operations system and ensure that we have the proper data insights to effectively run the operating system

Main responsibilities:

• Running continuous improvement programs / LEAN projects in the processes aligned with Ocean Operations Regional priorities

• Ensuring that continuous improvement findings/solutions are shared across region harvest optimal value

• Work together with continuous improvement leads regional/global on agreed initiatives and incorporate into Maersk Operating System (MOS)

• Provide feedback via the Super Users on improvement opportunities on processes

• Stay true to global/local SOPs when running continuous improvement initiatives

• Work cross-functional in areas to solve problems and ensure that the solutions are incorporated in the Operating system

• Validate trade-offs between cost and quality in improvement initiatives to ensure aligned with Ocean Operations objectives

• Ensure line of sight on regional continuous improvement initiatives

• Driving and embedding operating system across Ocean Operations

• Work cross functionally in the Region to solve problems and ensure that the solutions are incorporated in the Operating system and structurally and sustainably solved

• Coaching organization on Lean , Kaizen, etc.

Accountable for:

• Deploying TMW tools, global standards, and behaviors in the Area, following global priorities and timelines

• Building, integrating and maturing OpEx capabilities and CI culture across frontline and leadership teams

• Driving measurable improvements in key business KPIs tied to business performance, operational efficiency and customer outcomes

• Challenge, influence, and drive accountability across senior leaders and cross-functional teams

We are looking for:

If you have the requirements below, this is your chance to join this high-performance team and be part of this great moment in our organization!

• 5–10 years of experience in Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement, or Process Development

• Result Orientation & Change Management

• Proactiveness & Ownership

• Ability to build Collaborative Relationship and

• OpEx/Lean/CI experience in complex global environments. Lean Six Sigma (or equivalent) Black Belt certification is highly preferred.

• Ability to lead transformation and operate across multiple organizational levels, influencing both operational teams and senior stakeholders.

• Solid understanding of logistics and supply chain operations, preferably Ocean execution.

• English: fluent (mandatory).

• Availability to travel up to 20%.

About us

A.P. Moller-Maersk is an integrated container logistics company that works to connect and simplify our customers' supply chains. As a global leader in transportation services, we operate in 130 countries and employ about 70,000 people.

With an offer of end-to-end products and digital services, continuous customer engagement and a superior end-to-end delivery network, we enable our customers to trade and grow by transporting goods anywhere in the world. Learn more about us: https://www.maersk.com

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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