Maersk is a global leader in integrated logistics and have been industry pioneers for over a century. Through innovation and transformation, we are redefining the boundaries of possibility, continuously setting new standards for efficiency, sustainability, and excellence.
At Maersk, we believe in the power of diversity, collaboration, and continuous learning and we work hard to ensure that the people in our organization reflect and understand the customers we exist to serve.
With over 100,000 employees across 130 countries, we work together to shape the future of global trade and logistics.
Join us as we harness cutting-edge technologies and unlock opportunities on a global scale. Together, let's sail towards a brighter, more sustainable future with Maersk.
What we offer:
· Impact: Your work will directly contribute to the success of our global operations.
· Opportunity: Maersk provides ample opportunities for growth and development, both professionally and personally.
· Innovation: Join a forward-thinking team that embraces innovation and cutting-edge technologies.
· Global Exposure: Collaborate with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and gain exposure to international business practices.
· Work-Life Balance: We value work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements to support our employees
Job Summary:
The CI COE - OPEX Culture & Capability Building Lead is accountable for strengthening Operational Excellence capability, problem solving discipline, and system thinking across GSC through the deployment of Opex, Lean practices, and structured capability building interventions. This role acts as a Centre of Excellence capability leader, working in partnership with GSC functions, CI teams, L&D, and business leaders to embed OPEX ways of working into daily management routines, leadership cadences, and value stream performance improvement.
The role is responsible for enabling the shift from silo optimisation to end-to-end value stream thinking by building practitioner capability, coaching CI colleagues, strengthening Operating System (Governance) discipline, and ensuring learning is applied on real business problems linked to Dashboard reds, value stream gaps, and enterprise priorities. The role directly supports the development of self-sufficient teams that can diagnose performance gaps, run structured A3 problem solving, deploy Visual Management, facilitate Kaizen and VSM interventions, and sustain improvements beyond initial deployment, underpinned by data-driven tracking of capability maturity and adoption
Key Responsibilities
Drive OPEX culture and system thinking across GSC by enabling the shift from silo-based improvement to end-to-end value stream thinking across CX, Finance, Operations, and other GSC value streams.
Embed structured problem solving into daily ways of working by strengthening the use of A3 Problem Solving, and performance gap ownership.
Design and deploy structured capability journeys covering OPEX elements, A3 Problem Solving, Daily Management, Kaizen, Action Planning, Lean concepts, Value Stream Mapping, Waste Identification, and Standard Work principles.
Lead training and facilitation for OPEX capability building across GSC locations through classroom training, virtual sessions, refresher sessions, Q&A forums, leadership awareness sessions, and applied coaching interventions.
Enable the Train the Practitioner model for CI deployment by coaching CI colleagues to independently deploy OPEX work packages across L3 processes, including A3 Problem Solving, Value Stream Mapping workshops, Kaizen events, Visual Management, and structured action planning.
Build internal faculty and practitioner capability to scale OPEX deployment across GSC processes, ensuring CI colleagues are equipped to facilitate, coach, assess maturity, and sustain adoption across functions and locations.
Strengthen Operating System and Daily Management discipline by improving linkage between…