Strategic Projects and Collaboration Manager - Ocean Procurement

We are looking for a Strategic Projects and Collaboration Manager to join our Ocean Procurement team, as part of our Transported by Maersk (TbM) and Asset Strategy and Strategic Partnerships (ASSP) organization, reporting into the Regional Head of Ocean Procurement, Indian Subcontinent, Middle East and Africa (IMEA).

WE OFFER:

As the Strategic Projects and Collaboration Manager, you will work together with a diverse team of professionals within the IMEA Region. You will be overall responsible for the Strategic Terminal Partnering Portfolio, including the Regional terminal strategy plus in-house APMM existing and future investments in IMEA. With the aim of expanding collaboration with existing 3rd party and APMT locations spread across Terminals, you will be responsible to support implementing projects that optimize group Ocean Reliability with terminal partners, and synergistic value (Integrator, LSP, SLA developments, among others), as well as new investment projects to optimize Maersk’s Ocean footprint, in IMEA. You will also be responsible for interacting with other functions such as Ocean Fulfilment teams, Contract Management, Finance Business Partners and Indian Subcontinent & Middle East and Africa leadership teams locally, plus headquarter procurement, network and digital functions globally - all of whom will play specific roles at managing the portfolio professionally.

In addition to managing the Ocean terminals collaboration agenda, you will also be personally responsible to work closely with APM Terminals Corporate Development (CDV) teams in a closely linked agenda over the 5 archetypes of in-house collaboration projects (Invest in new terminals, expand existing terminals, Extend existing concessions, consolidate APMT existing facilities and other relevant investments). This could also expand to investment / volume for equity and partnerships with 3rd party terminals and/or other strategic projects where Maersk intends to secure or intensify Group’s presence without acquiring equity, where you will work closely with the Terminal Procurement teams in IMEA, fully within the boundaries of compliance rules within Maersk.

You are part of a diverse intercompany and stakeholder landscape, where you will have the opportunity to be part of the wider Terminals as well as larger Procurement Global Community, where coordination and learnings takes place.

You will have the opportunity to interact and work closely with Leadership teams in Headquarter functions, the Region, Commercial Areas, Operations teams in a highly dynamic, geopolitically sensitive and complex function and geography.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Building terminal road map, charting out long-term terminal portfolio and outlook for Maersk TbM IME and Africa

• Management of joint projects with APMT, securing compliance of procurement priorities such as service level agreement (SLA) contracting of the future, contract compliance, Supporting the Integrator strategy, SLA’s and procure 2 pay (P2P) among others.

• Develop and maintain regional Portfolio playbooks jointly with leadership teams within the IME and AFR TbM and APMT colleagues, with clear definition of roles and responsibilities, proper definition of senior leaders’ involvement and cadence to support Group initiatives.

• Cooperate with APMT CDV locally as well as globally, conducting assessments for new investments/divestments providing information, analysis on terminal com-plex competitiveness, current and future network demands that could impact attractiveness of evaluated investments and align with internal stakeholders for approval of key-items (investment/contract value, commitments and/or other compromises);

• Maximize the value of the Maersk ocean beyond just the terminals business agenda, identifying opportunities for Logistics and Services developments that can strengthen our Group’s value proposition for our customers.

• Assist Head of IMEA Ocean Procurement in strategic negotiations, with or without over-lap with APMT presence, in a given port complex which Group intends to secure/intensify presence

• Create, evolve and enhance stakeholder engagement – we work in a complex universe with internal plus external stakeholders, this role will be responsible to own that map for the Terminals landscape (TbM, CENPRO, 3rd party, APMT, Network, L&S, Market).

• Participates and provides Procurement input to the network design based on market developments & Terminal network, on a IMEA level knowledge ensuring a cost-optimal deployment of assets, in line with contractual landscape and APMT presence

• Participate and provide input to heads of logistics and services, Terminal and landside strategy

• Supports and Provides input to the IME and AFR TbM Management team as well as execution teams, HQ central teams in order to drive a red thread through local and global Group initiatives, and improve synergies and implement global standards within contracts

• Have a clear ability to think beyond just cost and look at long term value driven solutions on Group projects, including Digital, performance improvement, customer centricity, ESG, P2P process standardization agenda through future looking contracting.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree; with honours in logistics or finance

• Ability to exercise impact on project teams, without direct authority

• Excellent internal and external stakeholder management and communicator;

• Customer and process improvement mindset;

• Strong project management skills and demonstrated experience

• Ambassador of company values and leadership behaviours in a visible manner; Excellent Financial and legal acumen;

• High learning agility;

• Able to deal with ambiguity

• Ability to constructively challenge the safe choice

• Strong Negotiations skills, preferably within the Marine / terminals domain

• Understanding of Terminals performance management

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