Global Head of Indirect Procurement

A.P. Moller - Maersk is an integrated container logistics company that is responsible for moving 20% of global trade every year. With a dedicated team of over 100,000 employees across 130 countries, we go all the way to connect and simplify global trade, and help our customers grow and thrive.

Are you interested in joining a team with global scope? To set and lead the strategic direction of all Indirect Categories supporting the full employee journey, whether it is offices, travel, professional services, IT hard and software and Consortium buying, enabled by a supply Chain team and that owns the procure to pay processes for Indirect categories.

This is your chance to join a team that is shaping the people experience and setting new paradigms in the Indirect services space at Maersk, with a vision of being best in class across categories.

The Global Head of Indirect Procurement will lead a team of 6 Global Category leaders with a total team size of approx. 100 colleagues. Cross-functional collaboration is of utmost importance and will see the successful candidate partnering with the following internal stakeholders:

• Head of Asset Strategy and Strategic Partnerships (and ASSP leadership team colleagues)
• Head of Tax,  Head of Legal,
• Head of Marketing, 
• Head of Treasury, Head of Insurance,
• Head of Accounting,  Head of SG&A Finance,
• Head of Crewing,
• Various Heads in TECH, 
• Head of Strategy,
• CFO, Brand CFO’s
• Platform organization
• Regional & Area Managing Directors

Further to this, externally, the Global Head of Indirect Procurement will be responsible for partnering with large and critical suppliers of key professional services, travel, corporate real estate, technology and will manage Maersk Procurement External Partnerships program where we provide procurement support to our partners and customers.

Responsibilities:
 

• Set and steer the strategic direction of Indirect Procurement.
• Further enhance (build) strong capabilities in Procurement and be an effective representative for Asset Strategy and Strategic Partnerships and Procurement.
• Be a strategic partner to Executive Leadership and other key stakeholders.
• Ensure customer centricity in the Indirect Procurement solutions
• Enable and empower team to work with respective stakeholders globally through a simple engagement model.
• Drive a mentality of optimization and ensure that network and process synergies can be harvested.
• Be an inspirational leader for the wider team of >100 employees and a key player in the Asset Strategy and Strategic Partnerships Leadership team.
• Drive to continuously improve the ESG results in Indirect Categories.
• Lead in executing key strategic and high impact procurement projects in Indirect.
• Cost competitiveness of the categories in scope.
• End to end category management programs within scope.
• Implement Digital solutions in Indirect Supply Chain (P2P)
• Development of team members and succession planning.
• SRM engagement with strategic suppliers.
• Having the organization in place and operating effectively (with the right capability set).
• Optimization and standardization of processes in place.
• Engaging and motivating the team, embedding practices that promote engagement & inclusion index, driving action planning rigor towards being a team that thrives on psychological safety and trust..
• Delivery against Game Plan and Page 0 metrics.
• Consulted on: Any policies not owned/governed by Indirect relating to SG&A or cost drives, Co-location plans/brand changes, asset decisions impacting corporate real estate, Employee journey changes (incl. Phones, laptops etc) Crisis management (evacuations, pandemics, wars etc – anything that puts our travellers in harms way)

What You Bring:
 

• Extensive Procurement knowledge and experience.
• Inspirational leader of leaders with global transformation experience.
• Been successful in a complex matrix organization.
• Ideally digital and platform understanding.
• Superior stakeholder manager and collaborator.
• Assertive and convincing storyteller.
• High degree of Learning Agility.
• Customer centric mindset.
• Comfortable with 20% international travel annually.

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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