Organization Design Consultant

A.P. Moller - Maersk; Elizabeth (NJ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 207,000; Part time

Job summary

APM Terminals Elizabeth is seeking an experienced Organization Design Consultant for a 6-9 month contract in Elizabeth, NJ. The role focuses on shaping operating models, governance, and workforce transitions to enable future business requirements and automation initiatives.

You will collaborate with leaders across Operations, Engineering, Finance, Labor Relations, HR, and Transformation to deliver practical, implementable design deliverables and roadmaps for near-term and future state success.

Qualifications

• 5-10+ years of experience in Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Workforce Transformation, Operating Model Design, or a related field.
• Proven workshop facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and influencing skills with senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to translate strategic objectives and transformation priorities into organization design solutions.
• Lead organizational assessments, design workshops, structure development activities, and implementation planning across functions.
• Develop current-state and future-state organizational structures aligned to business requirements and workforce needs.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions to define organizational accountabilities and governance models.
• Create and maintain organization design deliverables including org charts, role charters, governance models, and RACI matrices.
• Conduct workforce and capability assessments to identify critical roles and talent needs.
• Support workforce transition planning and readiness activities.
• Prepare executive materials and track actions, risks, decisions, and dependencies.

Skills

Workshop facilitation

Stakeholder engagement

PowerPoint

Excel

Analytical skills

Project management

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

Step into the engine room of global commerce. At APM Terminals Elizabeth, you’ll be at the center of one of the busiest port complexes in North America. Every container you touch keeps freight moving through the Port of New York C New Jersey, supporting critical supply chains across the East Coast and beyond.
This is a place where speed, scale, and precision come together. You’ll collaborate with high- performing teams in a fast-paced, high-volume environment where safety and operational excellence are the top priorities. Here, your impact is immediate—and global.

Why you’ll love it here

• Be part of a major gateway on the U.S. East Coast
• Experience high-volume, complex terminal operations
• Work with driven teams in a fast-moving environment
• Continuous improvement mindset – where curiosity is encouraged, root-cause problem solving is valued, and making things better every day is part of how we win

Organization Design Consultant (6-9 Month Contract) – Elizabeth 2.0 Transformation Program

APM Terminals Elizabeth is seeking a hands-on Organization Design Consultant to support the Elizabeth 2.0 transformation program. Reporting directly to the Head of People Function, you will help shape the future organization by developing operating models, organizational structures, governance frameworks, workforce transition plans, and capability development strategies.
This is a practical delivery-focused role for an experienced organization design practitioner who can facilitate workshops, conduct analysis, build high-quality organizational design deliverables, and translate decisions into actionable implementation plans. You will work closely with leaders across Operations, Engineering, Finance, Labor Relations, HR, and Transformation teams to ensure the organization is prepared to support future business requirements, automation, technology adoption, and growth.

What We Can Offer

At APM Terminals, we foster a dynamic learning and training culture that empowers our employees to excel. Our commitment to improvement means every team member has the opportunity to develop their skills and advance their careers by continuously refining how we work. Experience a diverse, multinational workplace where your operational insights directly influence how we work.

• Opportunity to contribute directly to a major transformation and organizational change program.
• Exposure to cross-functional leaders across operations, engineering, finance, labor relations, HR, and transformation teams.
• A collaborative environment focused on continuous improvement, operational excellence, and sustainable growth.
• The ability to influence future workforce capabilities, organizational effectiveness, and readiness for new technologies and automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to translate strategic objectives, operational changes, and transformation priorities into organization design solutions.
• Lead organizational assessments, design workshops, structure development activities, and implementation planning across selected functions.
• Develop current-state and future-state organizational structures aligned to business requirements, workforce needs, and operating model objectives.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions to define organizational accountabilities, governance frameworks, decision rights, and ways of working.
• Create and maintain organization design deliverables including organization charts, role charters, governance models, accountability frameworks, RACI documentation, and decision-rights matrices.
• Conduct workforce and capability assessments to identify critical roles, future skill requirements, organizational impacts, and talent needs.
• Support workforce transition planning, implementation roadmaps, readiness activities, and phased organizational transition plans.
• Prepare executive presentations, recommendations, discussion papers, and Steering Committee materials while tracking actions, risks, decisions, and dependencies.

What We Are Looking For

• Continuous improvement mindset: we are looking for someone who brings a thoughtful improvement mindset—curious about how work gets done and motivated to make meaningful, sustainable improvements over time.
• 5-10+ years of experience in Organization Design, Organizational Effectiveness, Workforce Transformation, Operating Model Design, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience supporting complex transformation, restructuring, operating model, or workforce change initiatives.
• Strong expertise in organizational design methodologies, governance structures, operating models, workforce analysis, and capability assessments.
• Proven workshop facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and influencing skills with the ability to work effectively with senior leaders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, project management, PowerPoint, Excel, and business writing capabilities.
• Experience within logistics, transportation, manufacturing, industrial operations, infrastructure, or port environments is preferred.
• Familiarity with automation, digital transformation, workforce transformation programs, Lean, Continuous Improvement, ABS, or similar operational excellence methodologies is advantageous.
• Experience working in unionized environments is preferred.
• Hands-on, pragmatic, adaptable, collaborative, and execution-focused with the ability to independently drive deliverables through implementation.

Salary: $80 - $150 per hour (6-9 month contract)
Location: Elizabeth, NJ (5 days a week in Office)
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