Platform Product Owner

Location: India /UK/Denmark

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.

Key Responsibilities

As a Platform Product Owner you will manage product backlog, pipeline and prioritize customer implementations working closely with engineering teams. This role is inherently cross-functional and you will work closely with design, engineering, business teams, operations and other product teams.

Own and manage the product backlog
Define and execute roadmaps in collaboration with your team, peers and stakeholders
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.
Work closely with the business stakeholders to align with business objectives and deliver the right product
Work with the technology stakeholders to define the technology approach
Work with one or more distributed engineering teams
Own communications with the wider team around milestone and release plans
Bring together engineers, designers, and departments from around the company to build and release product features & capabilities as per plan
Orchestrate and be ultimately responsible for projects and products within your own track, and be able to define and track core KPI(s)
Engage with other PPO community to make sure we align solutions cross platforms and feasibilities and delivery timelines for those integration solutions.
Champion customer and stakeholder needs throughout project execution, ensuring that what is delivered meets the original goals and objectives
Act quickly on trends and opportunities by staying up to date on an extremely dynamic and competitive industry
Collaborate with UX designers for the discovery and design phases of a feature

Who we are looking for

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 understand the complexity of a global conglomerate and the role of technology as an integrated part of the business.
Experience of Agile scrum methodology, PSPO is desirable.
Have a strong focus on standardization and delivery.
Well organized and independent to prioritize and meet deadlines.
Able and willing to travel based on business requirements, 2-3 weeks per year.
Fluent English in both written and oral.
Good understanding of Logistics and Services (preferred)