Work Placement & Migration Specialist

Maersk; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Maersk is seeking a Work Placement & Migration Specialist to strategically manage placement and migration of work across GSC locations, ensuring alignment with service delivery and compliance principles.

The role involves leading new work, offshoring transitions, and collaborating with stakeholders to monitor compliance with standards. Strong project management, communication, and change management skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading large transition projects (150 FTE or more).
• 3–5 years in transition management, migrations & project management.
• Prince2 Practitioner or PMP certification required.
• LEAN Six Sigma certification preferred.
• Experience in a global business environment.

Responsibilities

• Leads all new work and offshoring/new work or 1:1 transfer for accounts within the area.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to monitor compliance with placement standards.
• Lead migration of work based on service catalogue, ensuring consistency and recording exceptions.
• Make informed decisions on work placement within the GSC balancing priorities and compliance.
• Diverse stakeholder management and ability to handle senior management discussions.

Skills

Transition management

Project management

Stakeholder management

MS Excel

PowerPoint

English communication

Large-scale migration

Prince2 PMP

Lean Six Sigma

Global environment

Presentation skills

Team player

Change management

Logistics industry knowledge

Tools

MS Office Suite

Job description

The Work Placement & Migration Specialist 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 - Leads all new work and offshoring/ New work or 1:1 Transfer for accounts owned in the area within geographical scope, business scale and impact, bridging the sales and operational activities, to ensure smooth transition of new or additional business into the organization. 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. undefined Accountabilities: Work Scope demarcation and assessement of right placement of tasks FTE Evaluation basis standard guidelines and principles Excellent Communication between various teams internal and external stakeholders Analytical mindset and clear Planning and Reporting Undefined

Required qualification, experience & skills

• Experience in leading Large Transition Projects (150 FTE or more) 3-5 years relevant experience in in Transition Management, Migrations & Project Management 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
• 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

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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.