Historian

APM Terminals; København; On-site; DKK 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

A.P. Moller - Maersk seeks an experienced Historian & Archives Manager to safeguard, manage, and activate the corporate memory across physical and digital archives.

You will ensure long-term preservation, accessibility, and integrity of historical records while transforming heritage assets into strategic insights and business value. You will lead governance, data migration, metadata enrichment, taxonomy design, and quality controls to support navigation, searchability, and regulatory compliance

Qualifications

• Experience safeguarding both physical and digital archives.
• Knowledge governance, metadata standards, retention policies and taxonomies.

Responsibilities

• Oversee physical and digital archives, safeguarding and enabling access to historical records and corporate knowledge.
• Lead implementation, migration, and continuous improvement of archive systems and data quality controls.
• Drive digital transformation in archives to improve discoverability and user experience.
• Evaluate AI-enabled solutions for knowledge retrieval and metadata generation.
• Support communications, branding, and legal requests with archival research and consultancy.

Skills

Archives & Records

Digital Archives

Info Governance

Data Migration

Metadata Taxonomy

AI Knowledge

Historical Research

Heritage Storytelling

Knowledge Mgmt

Vendor Implementation

Digital Transformation

Job description

Overview

As Historian & Archives Manager, you would be responsible for safeguarding, managing, and activating A.P. Moller - Maersk's corporate memory. This includes overseeing both physical and digital archives, ensuring the long-term preservation, accessibility, and integrity of historical records and corporate knowledge, while transforming heritage assets into business-relevant insights, content, and strategic value.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and develop Maersk's physical and digital archives, covering historical records, photographs, publications, and artefacts dating back to the company's origins.


• Maintain archival governance, information architecture, metadata standards, retention policies, classification frameworks, and quality controls to ensure reliable and compliant management of historical information.


• Lead and support the implementation, migration, and continuous improvement of archive and records management systems, including data mapping, data cleansing, metadata enrichment, taxonomy development, and validation of migrated content.


• Drive digital transformation initiatives within archives and heritage management, evaluating and adopting new technologies that improve discoverability, scalability, preservation, and user experience.


• Explore and apply AI-enabled solutions to improve knowledge retrieval, semantic search, content discovery, metadata generation, and access to trusted historical information across the organization.


• Conduct historical research and act as a trusted advisor on Maersk's history, supporting communications, branding, media engagement, customer activities, internal communications, legal requests, and strategic projects.


• Develop and advise on heritage-based storytelling that strengthens brand reputation, reinforces strategic messages, and connects Maersk's history with its future ambitions.


• Support stakeholders across communications, branding, legal, HR, and business functions through archival research, records retrieval, knowledge management, and consultancy services.

Core Expertise

• Archives & Records Management


• Digital Archives & Preservation


• Information Governance


• Data Migration & Data Quality Management


• Metadata & Taxonomy Design


• AI-powered Knowledge Management


• Historical Research & Analysis


• Heritage Communication & Storytelling


• Knowledge Management


• Vendor & System Implementation


• Management Digital Transformation

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 [e-mail].

A.P. Moller - Maersk is an integrated container logistics company working to connect and simplify its customer's supply chains. As the global leader in shipping services, the company operates in 130 countries and employs roughly 100,000 people. With simple end-to-end offering of products and digital services, seamless customer engagement and a superior end-to-end delivery network, Maersk enables its customers to trade and grow by transporting goods anywhere - all over the world. For more information click here. All the way.