Learning & Development Partner

Maersk; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Maersk is expanding its Ocean Operations capability to embed new skills and behaviours across the organisation. The role translates business strategy into capability requirements and ensures adoption throughout the employee lifecycle.

The successful candidate will lead strategy, design learning journeys, drive deployment across leadership levels, and measure impact to demonstrate business value. Maersk supports diversity and inclusive workplaces and offers opportunities across Asia Pacific.

Qualifications

• Understanding business strategy to translate into capability requirements.
• Experience embedding capability in onboarding, performance, and ways of working.
• Ability to measure impact and sustain capability long-term.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the L&D strategy and capability roadmap aligned to business objectives.
• Identify capability gaps and translate business priorities into capability development plans.
• Design role-based learning journeys and capability development approaches.
• Lead deployment of capability programmes across APA and leadership levels.
• Embed capability into onboarding, management systems, performance routines, and ways of working.
• Drive adoption of capabilities such as MOS, VMS, Problem Solving, leadership behaviours, change management, and new operating models.
• Establish reinforcement mechanisms, coaching approaches, and leader ownership to sustain capability after training.
• Track capability adoption, behaviour change, and business impact.
• Validate knowledge transfer and return on investment.
• Establish feedback loops to continuously improve capability programmes.
• Partner with Operations leaders, People teams, SMEs, and other regional L&D Partners
• Maintain capability frameworks, learning content, and knowledge repositories.
• Support onboarding and professional development across Ocean Operations.

Skills

Capability development

Learning strategy

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership development

Job description

Purpose of the Role

To build and sustain the capabilities required to deliver Ocean Operations priorities by ensuring skills, behaviours, and ways of working become embedded in daily operations.

The role translates business strategy into capability requirements and ensures capability is adopted, reinforced, measured, and sustained across the employee lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Capability Strategy & Deployment

• Develop and execute the L&D strategy and capability roadmap aligned to business objectives.
• Identify capability gaps and translate business priorities into capability development plans.
• Design role-based learning journeys and capability development approaches.
• Lead deployment of capability programmes across APA and leadership levels.

Capability Adoption & Sustainment

• Embed capability into onboarding, management systems, performance routines, and ways of working.
• Drive adoption of capabilities such as MOS, VMS, Problem Solving, leadership behaviours, change management, and new operating models.
• Establish reinforcement mechanisms, coaching approaches, and leader ownership to sustain capability after training.

Measure Impact

• Track capability adoption, behaviour change, and business impact.
• Validate knowledge transfer and return on investment.
• Establish feedback loops to continuously improve capability programmes.

Partnership & Governance

• Partner with Operations leaders, People teams, SMEs, and other regional L&D Partners
• Maintain capability frameworks, learning content, and knowledge repositories.
• Support onboarding and professional development across Ocean Operations.

Accountable For

• Employee capability journey, including onboarding, upskilling, coaching, and professional development.
• Design and deployment of capability development frameworks.
• Capability adoption, sustainment, and governance.
• Measurement of capability maturity, behavioural change, and business impact.

Success Measures

• Learning effectiveness and knowledge transfer.
• Competency development against target capability levels.
• Capability adoption and behavioural change.
• Demonstrated business impact.
• Employee growth and development outcomes.

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for someone who can translate strategy into capability requirements and ensure those capabilities become part of how the organization operates every day.

The ideal candidate can influence leaders, drive behavioural adoption, build scalable capability deployment plans, measure whether capability is being applied, and create systems that sustain capability long after formal training has ended.

Success in this role is not measured by training delivered. It is measured by capability adoption, leader ownership, behavioural change, and business impact.

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.
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