Project Manager – Eastern Africa Area at Maersk Line

Opportunity

As the Area Project Manager, you will be responsible for planning and overseeing projects to ensure they are completed in a timely fashion and within budget. You will be responsible for driving new investment together with finance business partners, this includes developing business cases. Once the projects are approved, you will be responsible to ensure they are implemented as per timelines set out in the business case, safely and within budget. You will ensure business processes are in place and you will work across function with stakeholders all over the organization. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a fast growing multinational and diverse organization.

We offer

When you join Maersk, you’ll find that the world is your workplace. You’ll work in a culturally diverse, stimulating environment, surrounded by new ideas and different ways of doing things.

We believe in individual performance within highly professional teams supported by our distinctive values. To us teamwork means acceptance, respect, dedication and the idea that we can achieve more when we all pull together.

Living our values means competing in the market place in an ethical way so our name is synonymous with being a credible and valuable business partner. Through Constant Care and Humbleness we strive to prepare for the future, while never forgetting that our customers and competitors are key to our ability to improve.

In our daily work Uprightness and Our Employees mean that transparency and accountability in everything we do go hand in hand with being an inspiring, challenging place to work. At Maersk, we take pride in hiring the best person for the job irrespective of gender, age, nationality or religious belief.

Key responsibilities

1. Maintain a project tracker for ongoing and future projects.
2. Set up a framework to channel new business ideas and develop ideas into business proposals.
3. Prepare a clear project plan for each project.
4. Set up a project team that will work through the project.
5. Provide leadership to the project ensuring matters are escalated timely, where required.
6. Work with finance to develop strong business cases.
7. Identify decision makers and key internal and external stakeholders for each project.
8. Develop a good understand of approvals required for business cases and requirements to get the necessary approval.
9. Ensure HSSE requirement are covered while preparing the business case.
10. Implementation of the project after approvals are in place.
11. Ensure the pipeline of new projects is strong, is aligned with the strategic direction of the company and is aligned with the leadership team.
12. Use project management techniques/systems to ensure proper planning and preparation for different stages of the project.
13. We are looking for

A dedicated and qualified candidate having the ability to make a difference in the role with:

1. Prior experience with managing projects, especially logistics infra-structure projects like warehouses, depots, dry ports, etc
2. Project Management Professional (PMP) certification would be an advantage
3. Strong stakeholder management experience
4. Understanding of logistics within Eastern Africa
5. Financial acumen
6. Experience with influencing stakeholders across different levels without authority
7. Good knowledge of MS Office
8. Willingness to learn and take on additional responsibilities..

As a performance-oriented company, we strive to always recruit the best person for the job regardless of gender, age, nationality, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.