PURPOSE OF ROLE
As APMT & Maersk accelerates on it’s transformation journey, our role as the Finance organization is to enable and secure this change. Our ambition is to become a Best in class finance organisation - One Finance, One Voice, One Truth. As we take on this journey, we have launched LEAN to be one of the main pillars to enable this transformation. LEAN is the fundament in how we operate within APMT and LEAN will enable us to Lift Ambitions so that we can achieve our mission with becoming that Truly Integrated Terminal.
With these two key components, LEAN along with support of Finance Academy, we will make sure we develop our people so that they have the right capabilities to do their best and that we as a function can reach our mission.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES LEAN AND CONTINUES IMPROVEMENTS
• Responsible to execute on the global agenda agreed for Finance GSC to actively improve the business by using LEAN.
• Proactively work with the other functions to share best practice and to support the LEAN agenda within Finance GSC
• Be visible in the organization by actively do Gemba’s and Process Confirmations.
• Positively influence and actively drive lean culture behavior change locally
• Actively work with the Head of Departments (or assigned) to see how maturity can improve and also to share best practice.
• Keep an oversight over the LEAN training degree of our employees within GSC and support them in getting trained
• Responsible for delivering OS Leadership Training and the LEAN For All Program in GSC
• Provide an overview of Process Confirmations performed and work actively with the GPELs and BPEs on how to close gaps.
• Be a coach and support both Problem solving sessions and Kaizens as well as selected individuals that want to increase the LEAN level.
• Drive and plan events that focus on using the LEAN methodology in daily work. • Ensure that all Kaizen activities including benefits are reported
• Actively communicate achievements and successes with the broader finance community
FINANCE TRANSFORMATION
• Support the Transformation team, the GSC Execution and L&D team to execute on the annual agenda agreed for Finance GSC.
• Support the design, development and roll out of the targeted upskilling programs that have been identified to support prioritized capabilities.
• Responsible for ensuring that all new joiners in the GSC goes through the TREE programme by coordinating with the Finance L&D trainer.
• Responsible for delivering LEAN trainings to the GSC APMT execution team members, to support the Finance L&D trainer
• Gather statistic and follow up/take proper actions via the GPELs to increase participation of trainings and usage of online trainings
• Work actively with the GPELs and the process Leads to identify any gaps and then propose and work with the APMT Academy and LEAN Lead to identify training opportunities (training, knowledge sharing sessions, focus sessions etc)
• Collect and evaluate feedback on how we can improve training and onboarding and propose suggestion on how we can improve.
• Coordinate and support in facilitate and communication of trainings. During trainings as well as beforehand. (can be taken out as Academy/L&D can take care of this.
CRITICAL QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
• 3-5 years' experience with LEAN methodologies.
• Must be capable of driving change and coaching employees at all levels, including senior leaders and frontline team members
• Must be a strong and empathetic communicator with excellent stakeholder management skills
• Must have strong relationship building skills, at all levels, especially with frontline personnel eg GSC and TBC
• Be able to work professionally in a matrix organization
• Be able to drive, mobilize and navigate in a large organization
• Project Management Experience and LEAN certification/experience (or similar) is a requirement
• Experience in learning design and is up to date with learning trends
• Must be adaptable to constant change and unstructured/flexible working team environment
• Must be self-motivated and always striving for excellence and exceeding expectations
• Excellent professional communication skills
• L&D background is a benefit - Competency frameworks, learning technology, learning evaluation
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 tools like excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint & Viva
• Finance domain knowledge is a benefit but not a requirement.
BEHAVIOURAL SKILLS
• Humility; demonstrate in interactions
• Collaborative; be open to working in conjunction with different teams with a common goal and for organizational benefits
• Professional communication; be able to manage different audience groups and communicate in a professional manner
• Open; easy to communicate with
• Coaching/teaching abilities
• Self-confident and drive to be “best in class”
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to adverse situations
• Hands-on attitude
• Results Orientation; Gets results that have a clear, positive, and direct impact on business performance.
Success in this role will require the ability to find approaches to development that work at scale, across geographic boundaries, and while generating commitment through influence rather than formal authority
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