The Senior PMO Specialist plays a key role within the APM Terminals Transformation Office, driving successful execution of strategic change initiatives. This position enhances project and change delivery capabilities through governance, quality assurance, and coaching, enabling confident decision-making and early risk detection across the organization.
What You'll Do
- Establish, maintain, and continuously improve project and change delivery standards, frameworks, and templates
- Perform independent quality reviews (health checks, gate reviews, deep dives) on projects - definition of done, business cases, scope clarity, timelines, resourcing, financial logic, risks, and change readiness
- Escalate delivery risks and patterns to the Transformation Office leadership and relevant forums
- Support recovery actions - without taking over delivery
- Challenge delivery plans, assumptions, risks, and dependencies to protect value
- Ensure compliance with agreed governance without creating unnecessary bureaucracy
- Provide integrated portfolio-level insights across cost, progress, risk, capacity, and benefits
- Identify systemic delivery issues, cross-project dependencies, and change saturation risks
- Support portfolio and steering forums with decision-oriented material (not status reporting)
- Track and escalate early warning signals before issues become failures
- Act as a trusted sparring partner for senior project and change managers
- Coach project managers/ change leads and business owners in execution, practical delivery disciplines and change leadership
- Support teams in applying fit-for-purpose delivery and change practices
- Facilitate decision-quality improvements (definition of done, clear scope, ownership, trade-offs)
- Support recovery of challenged or high-risk initiatives
- Act as a role model for pragmatic, outcome-focused execution
- Contribute to building a strong, repeatable execution culture
- Maintain and evolve project and change management standards
- Own and evolve the project and change management toolbox (methods, tools, templates)
- Ensure standards are lightweight, usable, and value-adding
- Drive pragmatic adoption of ways of working across business and change projects
- Balance standardization with flexibility based on initiative complexity and risk
- Capture lessons learned from reviews and transformations
- Translate patterns into improvements in frameworks, tools, and training
- Act as an integrator between governance, execution, and business reality
- Provide transparent, fact-based challenges while maintaining strong relationships
- Require project quality checks for in-scope initiatives
- Recommend corrective actions and escalation
- Challenge definition of done, scope, timelines, resourcing, and financial assumptions
- Escalate delivery risks and systemic issues through Transformation Office leadership
What We're Looking For
- 8–12+ years in project / portfolio management/ program/ project management, change management, and transformation delivery
- Proven hands-on experience delivering complex, cross-functional projects in multinational matrix organised companies
- Strong understanding of: Portfolio, project and change management
- Strong understanding of: Portfolio governance
- Strong understanding of: Financial and resource planning
- Strong understanding of: Change adoption and operational readiness
- Delivery frameworks (transformation programs/ projects (agile/ waterfall/ hybrid))
- Risk and dependency management
- Financial awareness (business cases, forecasts)
- Change and adoption principles
- Quality review and assurance techniques
Nice to Have
- Experience in regulated or complex environments
- Executive-level communication and challenge
- Systems thinking and pattern recognition
- Pragmatic judgement over rigid methodology
- Strong facilitation and coaching skills
- Credibility with senior stakeholders
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Engineering, Information Systems, Economics, or a related field
- Master’s degree (e.g. MSc, MBA, MPA) is an advantage, particularly with a focus on strategy, transformation, or organizational change
Technical Stack
- agile
- waterfall
- hybrid
Team & Environment
Part of the Transformation Office; works closely with Strategy Portfolio Management, Transformation Leads, Change Business Owners, Subject Matter Experts, and Change Receiving Organizations. Reports to Transformation Office leadership.
Benefits & Compensation
- Dynamic learning and training culture
- Commitment to continuous improvement driven by LEAN principles
- Opportunity to develop skills and advance careers
- Innovative environment where growth is a priority
- Numerous advantages of being a valued member of the team
- Diverse and inclusive workplace
- Equal opportunities employer
- Support for adjustments during the application and hiring process
- Accommodation support available via accommodationrequests@maersk.com
Work Mode
Hybrid work model, with implied flexibility through global collaboration and matrix organization.
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.
