People Partner Manager

Key responsibilities

• Consistently drive and deliver high quality and integrated People Partnering within a country/group of countries to ensure great employee experience for office-based colleagues, site-based colleagues, and third-party workers
• Provide leadership to the FLPO People Partners and People Advisors team in the country/group of countries, creating and maintaining an environment where employees are highly engaged, proud of their work and have a strong sense of purpose.
• Ensure key stakeholder engagement and a high degree of satisfaction in the region.
• Implement the people strategy within the region in alignment with People Business Partners and in close collaboration with respective Heads of Delivery and Employee relations in the country/group of countries.
• Ensure best practice sharing within the region and with global peers to continuously improve the effectiveness and efficiency of delivery as well as employee experience.
• Continually review teams’ capabilities and resource levels in line with business demand and as the new operating model and technology adoption mature.
• Uphold the Maersk brand and values and business knowledge within the FLPO team

The Frontline People Organization is a truly international team where you will work alongside, learn from, and build lasting relationships with colleagues from all over the world. By joining our regional team, you have a unique opportunity to influence the vision and delivery of the People Partnering Organization.

Joining Maersk, you will become part of the global family of the company that moves 20% of global trade everyday all the way, where one of our core values is Our Employees. It goes without saying that we value diversity: we thrive on the diversity of our talent in all its forms, and we see it as a strength in building high-performance teams across brands, cultures, and locations.

What we are looking for 

We hope the position sounds as exciting to you as we see it. To succeed in this role, you should have a passion for building strong relationships and trust with internal stakeholders. This is a unique opportunity in a time of great transformation, so you should ideally enjoy working at a fast pace, leading teams through change and deal with ambiguity. As someone in our team said: you should feel comfortable changing the wheel while the car is in motion.

As for the skillset and experience, we are looking for:

• Minimum 10 years of HR generalist international experience in roles with increasing complexity and scope, and solid understanding of HR fundamentals preferably in contract logistics or 3PL companies
• Experience in managing Employee relations.
• People leadership experience be a natural leader and passionate about driving team engagement.
• Experience in leading change, managing transformations and organization building.
• Passionate about the business and partnering with leaders to deliver on business results.
• Experience in implementing new initiatives and rolling out new ways of working.
• Experience in large international organizations.
• Ability to navigate complex stakeholder matrix and influencing senior leaders on a range of business / people issues.
• Flexibility and adaptability to operate in a fast-paced, developing project environment, taking ownership and setting directions with minimal guidance.
• Resilience: the change process, is anything but straightforward; accepting uncertainty and bouncing back from setbacks while keeping your enthusiasm is a tall order, but we need it
• Be self-driven, energetic, and have a ‘can-do’ mindset.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

You have been reading so far, we’re glad to see you are interested. If you are ready to take on the challenge, we look forward to hearing from you!

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