People Projects and CI Manager

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In partnership with the Global IMO, Area Leadership Team, Regional Leadership Team and Regional HR team, you will lead and project manage the HR critical work stream activity for integrations, mergers, and transformation activities in the Front Line People Organization (FLPO) business in Africa.

Primary regional point of contact to lead HR critical workstream activities in Africa for regional transformation projects.

Provide communication and onboarding to local stakeholders during the organizational design and staffing phase as applicable.

Working with the stakeholders in Africa, translating business changes/requirements, cross functional dependencies into overall plans.

Work with People Partners to ensure resources are available and allocated to update HR systems with new organizational design.

Liaise with Data Management team to ensure high data quality.

Communicate and align with People Partners and HRBPs on critical outcomes, criteria and differentiators.

Ensure required data inputs are available in time (Finance, Legal, Facility Management) and support in the documentation and system integration.

Provide regional/local input on quality concerns, risks and opportunities for rollout of global projects.

Contribute to ensure proper change management during the implementation and hyper care of global projects.

Ad hoc support needed in relation to IMO projects.

Lead HR critical workstream for M&A for local and/or global M&A projects, following global governance and policy.

Provide input to HR M&A policy, playbooks and integration plans on core HR activities, including talent retention, organizational optimization for M&A etc.

HR point of contact for local HR leaders, both Maersk and acquired company, M&A team and other local M&A specialists both internal and external.

Contribute to the HR and Integration workstream of local/regional M&As or global M&A with regional and local ramifications.

Support Regional HR on possible M&A and new organizational design.

Execute in line with HR governance and checklist for pre transaction HR activities in M&A - due diligence related activities in HR.

Execute in line with HR governance and checklist for post transaction HR activities in M&A (integration steps, timelines).

Deliver non negotiables in terms of Maersk HR processes / tools to be rolled out in acquired companies within agreed timeframes.

Ensuring full and final integration of acquired business in scope in longer term (at agreed pace/timeline).

Lead Regional HR projects/initiatives with organizational impact/HR implications.

• At least 7 years' experience in HR project management, preferably within the Logistics & Supply Chain industry
• Sound understanding of local labour law
• Exceptional stakeholder management and project management skills
• Ability to thrive in high pace environment
• Strong business acumen

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