Work Placement & Migration Lead

Maersk; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Maersk is seeking a Work Placement & Migration Lead for its Global Shared Services Centre, based in Chennai. The role focuses on strategically managing placement and migration of work across GSC locations to ensure alignment with service delivery models and operational efficiency.

You will apply placement principles, develop optimization strategies, monitor compliance, and lead migrations while maintaining consistency and recording exceptions. Strong English and stakeholder skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years relevant experience in Transition Management, Migrations & Project Management.
• Experience leading large transition projects (150 FTE or more).
• Certification in Prince2 or PMP is a must; Lean Six Sigma preferred.

Responsibilities

• Apply and enforce work placement principles consistently across all GSC locations.
• Develop and execute location/site optimization strategies for business needs and service delivery.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to monitor compliance with work placement standards and decisions.
• Lead migration of work based on the service catalogue, record exceptions, reduce fragmentation.
• Make informed decisions on work placement within the GSC balancing priorities, capabilities and compliance.

Skills

Transition Management

Migrations

Project Management

Stakeholder management

English communication

Large transition projects

Team collaboration

Education

Prince2 Practitioner

PMP

LEAN Six Sigma

Job description

The Work Placement & Migration Lead is responsible for strategically managing the placement and migration of work across Global Shared Services Centre (GSC) locations, ensuring alignment with service delivery models, operational efficiency, and compliance with established principles and standards

Key responsibilities: Apply and enforce work placement principles consistently across all GSC locations to ensure strategic alignment and operational efficiency. Develop and execute location and site optimization strategies that support business needs and service delivery models. Collaborate with key stakeholders to monitor and report compliance with work placement standards and decisions. Lead the migration of work based on the service catalogue, maintaining consistency, recording exceptions, and reducing fragmentation. Make informed decisions on work placement within the GSC, balancing strategic priorities, capabilities, and compliance requirements.

Accountabilities

• Business insight generation based on accurate, consistent & reliable data
• Data visualization & storytelling
• Resource planning for BI
• End-to-end impact analysis

Required qualification, experience & skills

7-10 years relevant experience in in Transition Management, Migrations & Project Management Experience in leading Large Transition Projects (150 FTE or more) Strong project management skills and experience in managing complex and dynamic Transition projects Certified Prince2 Practitioner/ PMP is a must. Additional LEAN Six Sigma is preferred Experience working in a global business environment Excellent in stakeholder management & a good team player Comfortable when dealing with senior management and being part of tough discussions Passionate about driving customer experience and client centricity Excellent command of spoken and written English and communication skills Excellent Presentation skills and overall expertise in MS Office Suite – especially MS Excel and Power point Ability to multi-task, manage several projects simultaneously in a dynamic environment and manage challenge Required Business/ Technical Knowledge: Certified project management Diverse senior stakeholder management (diplomatic) Experienced in handling large scale work migration projects Experience in solution design Understanding of process modeling Change Management Knowledge of Logistic and Services industry.

Key measures

Transition and Transformation of projects Timely completion of offshoring programs Automation & Digitalization & Centralization program Prince 2/Project Management certification & Pragcieur Scrum Master/Lean Six Sigma added advantage

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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.