Projects and Continuous Improvement Manager (Europe)

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Job Description

Opportunity

At Maersk, 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. At Maersk we want to be a true integrator of container logistics connecting and simplifying our customers' supply chain through global end-to-end solutions. We count on our diverse people to make it happen. 
We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.

What We Offer

This is an exciting career opportunity in an international, challenging business setting known for diversity and high paced environment. You will get to focus on creating valuable relations with current and new customers and work with highly professional teams in an environment where you will be valued, recognized and well rewarded. 
You will work with amazing and diverse colleagues with a deep sense of commitment to live Our Values and together, go all the way for our customers, society and for each other.

Overview

The Projects and Continuous Improvement Manager (Europe) is part of a small team covering Europe and IMEA who are responsible for leading people related initiatives with organizational impact across a regional scope. This person will manage HR workstreams for organizational change projects in Europe whether that's a launch of a new warehouse, the implementation of a new system or a continuous improvement initiative. Critical will be ensuring strong collaboration across key stakeholders, on-time execution and building new processes and playbooks as well as influencing global projects with local European knowledge.

This role will require European travel

Key Responsibilities
* Collaborate with colleagues across the people function e.g. global solutions teams, regional SME's, operational People function leaders, to ensure Europe is delivering all 'heartbeat', change and growth initiatives in the HR Master Plan
* Primary regional point of contact to lead HR critical workstream activities within global projects and in regional transformation projects, working across functions
* For projects, lead in a way that ensures all activities are 'joined up', customer back and value generating in the business, being the link between design and operational delivery.
* Experienced and capable to lead customer implementations for new and existing customer and building launches, coaching local HR colleagues in best practices for successful launches.
* Drive excellent project management disciplines in all initiatives.
* Own data quality and reporting for the Region ensuring collaboration between the people, data and analytics team and local HR colleagues.
* Working effectively with HR IT and Tech on relevant projects.
* Lead regional HR projects with organizational impact
* Provide local knowledge and feedback on people and culture
* Identify and document stranded processes and assess ownership
* Work with local HR colleagues, identify CI opportunities to drive an improved employee experience and work with central teams to ensure the voice of local operations sites is included and appropriate improvements made

What we are looking for
* A Project Manager with HR experience who can inspire and engage wider project teams to deliver
* Experience leading programmes or projects in an operational environment
* Programme and project management skills
* Analytical thinking with a strong bias for data and metrics
* Excellent skills in stakeholder management
* A deep understanding HR processes and HR IT particularly WorkDay
* Experience with lean, process management and/or design thinking
* Ability to drive initiatives across geographies balancing conflicting stakeholders' needs
* Proactive and collaborative
* Ability to translate complex issues into pragmatic solutions and easy-to-understand language.
* Able to travel in Europe as needed, on average once a quarter

As one of the cornerstones of our values, we strive to deliver the right environment for the right people while fostering a culture of fairness, mutual respect, responsibility, and care for our business and our customers.
We have a competitive compensation and benefits package for our employees, including medical insurance and annual bonus.
If you could see yourself in this role and are keen to be part of our journey at Maersk, we look forward to hearing from you!

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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