Work Placement & Migration Lead

A.P. Moller Maersk; Chennai; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Maersk is seeking a Work Placement & Migration Lead to strategically manage placement and migration of work across Global Shared Services Centre locations. This role ensures alignment with service delivery models, drives operational efficiency, and enforces established placement principles and standards.

Responsibilities include leading location optimization, monitoring compliance with placement standards, and guiding end-to-end migration according to the service catalogue while minimizing

Qualifications

• 7-10 years relevant experience 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 with senior management discussions.
• Passionate about customer experience and client centricity.
• Excellent command of spoken and written English and communication skills.
• Excellent Presentation skills and MS Office Suite expertise (Excel & PowerPoint).
• Ability to multitask across several projects in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Apply and enforce work placement principles consistently across all GSC locations.
• Develop and execute location and site optimization strategies.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to monitor compliance with work placement standards.
• Lead the migration of work based on the service catalogue, recording exceptions.
• Make informed decisions on work placement balancing priorities, capabilities, and compliance requirements.
• Generate business insights from data and present them clearly.
• Plan resources for BI and perform end-to-end impact analysis.

Skills

Transition Management

Migrations

Project Management

Prince2 Practitioner

PMP

LEAN Six Sigma

Stakeholder Management

English Communication

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Multi-tasking

Team Player

Education

Prince2 Practitioner certification

PMP certification

LEAN Six Sigma (preferred)

Tools

MS Excel

PowerPoint

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 & Practitioner
• Scrum Master/Lean Six Sigma added advantage

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking.