Senior Transformation Lead

Damco Spain SL; Den Haag; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Maersk is seeking a Senior Transformation Lead to drive strategic transformation initiatives across functions and geographies. You will work with Business Owners, IT/OT, BPM, Finance and Operations to deliver outcomes with speed and accountability.

In this mandate-based role, you will champion Lean principles, manage complex changes, and influence executives to ensure sustainable adoption and enterprise-wide impact.

Qualifications

• 10–15+ years leading complex, cross-functional transformations.
• Proven track record delivering strategic change, not just projects.
• Experience with senior executives, business and operations, technology-led change.

Responsibilities

• Lead one or more strategic transformation projects across functions.
• Translate strategic intent into outcomes, milestones and decisions.
• Manage scope, timelines, resources and funding with accountability to executives.
• Maintain focus on outcomes and adoption, not activity.
• Drive momentum and decision-making across cross-functional landscapes.
• Escalate blockers to executive leadership with clear options and consequences.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Transformation strategy

Executive stakeholder management

Change management

Lean / process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration, engineering, information systems, economics

Master's degree (advantage)

Job description

APM Terminals is part of Maersk, an integrated transport and logistics company and a global leader in container shipping and ports. The Maersk group employs around 100,000 employees across operations in 130 countries. We actively promote the growth of the communities around us, allowing local economies to flourish. APM Terminals operates one of the world's most comprehensive port networks. We’re uniquely positioned to help both shipping line and landside customers grow their business.

At APMT Terminals, we foster a dynamic learning and training culture that empowers our employees to excel. Our commitment to improvement is driven by Lean principles, ensuring that every team memberhas the opportunity todevelop their skills and advance their careers.Experience a diverse, multinational workplace where your operational insights directly influence how we work.

At APM Terminals, a global leader in port and terminal operations, we enable global trade and drive sustainable growth. As part of the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group, we connect economies and communities worldwide. Our success is driven by a strong commitment to LEAN methodologies, embedding continuous improvement into every aspect of our operations. Join us and be part of a team that values excellence, collaboration, and innovation.

We foster a dynamic learning and training culture that empowers our employees to excel. Our commitment to continuous improvement is driven by LEAN principles, ensuring that every team member can develop their skills and advance their careers. Join us to be part of an innovative environment where your growth is our priority and experience the numerous advantages of being a valued member of our team.

For APM Terminals to succeed in the new global reality, we need to think, act and do things differently than we have before. We need to transform how we work; continue to develop our skillsets, processes and behaviours; and ensure every heart and brain is in the game and with us on this journey. The APM Terminals Transformation Office has been established to enable strategy execution across the company. The Senior Transformation Lead ensures making strategic change happen – across silos, with quality, at speed.

The Senior Transformation Lead is accountable for driving strategic projects to successful outcomes, ensuring that change is executed, adopted, and embedded across the organization. The role acts on behalf of executive leadership and supports the Business Owner to orchestrate delivery, remove barriers, and enforce accountability across business, technology, and operations – without permanently owning line responsibilities.

This is a temporary, mandate-based role focused on outcomes, not operational performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead execution of one or more strategic transformation projects
• Translate strategic intent into clear outcomes, milestones, and decisions
• Ensure scope, timelines, resourcing, and funding are realistic and actively managed
• Maintain focus on outcomes and adoption, not activity
• Drive momentum and decision-making across complex, cross-functional landscapes
• Ensure decisions are made at the right level, at the right time
• Escalate unresolved blockers to executive leadership with clear options and consequencesMaintain transparency on progress, risks, and trade-offs
• Business Owners
• IT / OT
• BPM
• Finance
• Operations / Change Receiving Organisation (CRO)
• Resolve dependencies and conflicts that cannot be solved locally
• Act as the single point of execution accountability for the initiative
• Drive enterprise-wide change coordination across functions
• Ensure the Change Receiving Organization (CRO) is engaged, prepared, and accountable
• Challenge leaders on behaviours , role-modelling, and commitment
• Ensure change impacts are understood and actively managed
• Prevent a “central delivery, local resistance” failure mode
• Request decisions and commitments from senior stakeholders
• Escalate unresolved issues directly to Executive Management / CEO (via Transformation Office leadership)
• Recommend initiative re-shaping, pausing, or stopping

What This Role Is Not

• Does not own line management
• Does not own benefits
• Does not replace Business Owners

Critical Qualifications

We are looking for:

• 10–15+ years leading complex, cross-functional transformations
• Proven track record delivering strategic change, not just projects
• Experience working with:
• Senior executives
• Business and operations
• Technology-led change
• Large-scale organizational impact
• Experience in regulated or asset-heavy environments is an advantage

Additional Qualifications

• Strong executive-level communication and presence
• Comfortable operating on a mandate rather than through formal line authority
• Resilient, pragmatic, and outcome-focused mindset
• Skilled at resolving conflict and driving alignment across silos, at pace
• Credibility with senior stakeholders, up to executive management/CEO level
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration , Engineering, Information Systems, Economics, or a related field
• Master’s degree (e.g. MSc, MBA, MPA) is an advantage, particularly with a focus on strategy, transformation, or organizational change

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.

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