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Maersk • CNSGH18 - Shanghai - No. 757 Mengzi Road | China

Senior Business Analyst

Employment type:  Full time
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Job Description

What We Offer

  • The opportunity to drive and influence large‑scale digital transformation across global forwarding and logistics platforms.
  • Ownership in designing and delivering scalable, resilient, and secure enterprise solutions that enable complex, mission‑critical operations.
  • A senior role with high business exposure, enabling close collaboration with product, technology, operations, and leadership teams.
  • A culture built on customer‑centricity, accountability, and data‑driven decision‑making, solving real supply chain and logistics challenges worldwide.
  • A focused yet balanced working environment that strongly supports continuous learning, professional growth, and capability building through communities of practice, conferences, workshops, and internal knowledge forums.

Key Responsibilities

Senior Business Analysis & Leadership

  • Lead complex business analysis initiatives, identifying strategic improvement opportunities and driving measurable business outcomes.
  • Translate ambiguous or complex business needs into clear, structured, and prioritized requirements aligned with enterprise strategy.
  • Own the development of high‑quality Business Requirement Documents (BRDs) and detailed specifications, ensuring traceability and clarity across delivery teams.
  • Proactively challenge requirements where necessary, applying critical thinking to balance business value, operational impact, and technical feasibility.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, supporting decision‑making with insights, data, and scenario analysis.

Logistics & Forwarding Domain Expertise

  • Apply deep understanding of global logistics and freight forwarding business models to solution design and prioritization.
  • Analyze and optimize end‑to‑end logistics processes, identifying inefficiencies and value‑creation opportunities.
  • Maintain strong awareness of logistics data flows, system integrations, and information architecture across platforms.

Strategic Solution & Product Thinking

  • Contribute to and influence product and solution roadmaps, ensuring alignment with long‑term platform and business strategy.
  • Champion customer‑centric and outcome‑driven solution design, ensuring usability and scalability.
  • Assess the end‑to‑end impact of change across people, process, data, and technology dimensions.

Digital, AI & Continuous Improvement

  • Actively embrace continuous self‑learning, staying up to date on digital trends, enterprise platforms, and emerging technologies.
  • Demonstrate a solid foundation in AI and data‑driven concepts, including automation, intelligent insights, and decision support.
  • Effectively use AI‑enabled tools (e.g. generative AI, analytics platforms, low‑code tools) to:
    • Rapidly create prototypes and proof‑of‑concepts
    • Validate business ideas early
    • Improve requirement quality and solution clarity
  • Apply Agile principles to support iterative delivery and continuous improvement.

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst who can lead complex initiatives and bridge strategic business needs with scalable digital solutions in global logistics environments.

The ideal candidate:

  • Brings strong experience in enterprise‑level business analysis, with the confidence to engage and influence senior stakeholders.
  • Demonstrates a growth mindset and strong self‑learning capability, continuously developing both business domain and technical skills.
  • Possesses foundational AI and digital knowledge, with hands‑on experience using AI tools to accelerate analysis and solution validation.
  • Is able to turn complexity into clarity, producing well‑structured requirements and actionable insights.
  • Acts with ownership, accountability, and a strong focus on customer value, operational excellence, and long‑term scalability.

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.

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. If you need special assistance or an accommodation to use our website, apply for a position, or to perform a job, please contact us by emailing accommodationrequests@maersk.com.

Company benefits

Open to part time work for some roles
Open to compressed hours
In house training
Health insurance
Dental coverage
Mental health platform access
Compassionate leave
Life assurance
Annual bonus
Referral bonus
Employee assistance programme
Employee discounts
Adoption leave
Private GP service
Buy or sell annual leave
Religious celebration leave
401K
Annual pay rises
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Learning platform
Mentoring
Enhanced maternity leave
Shared parental leave
Women’s health leave
L&D budget
Professional subscriptions
Lunch and learns

Working at Maersk

Company employees:

100,000+

Gender diversity (m:f):

65:35

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