VP of Applications

Provides leadership, vision and direction to the applications organization to ensure contribution to achieving Maersk business goals.

Works with Head of IT and other IT leaders to develop overall strategy in the context of the business strategy.

Manages application leadership, establishes application development architecture and develops team capabilities to address business needs and gaps.

We offer

As a company, we promote a culture of honesty and integrity, and value the trust it allows us to build with customers and employees alike.

Our focus on our people is what sets us apart and keeps our customers coming back to work with us!
If you are seeking to be a part of a family, this is the place for you!

Performance Team, now part of the Maersk global organization under a combined Warehousing & Distribution division, offers third party logistics services to over 500 customers.

Encompassing almost 15 million square feet of warehousing capacity throughout the country and a large transportation segment capturing a variety of services, PT has key supply chain hubs in the Los Angeles and New Jersey/New York areas, and other facilities along the Western & Eastern coasts along with multiple locations in the Midwest.

Performance Team has delivered significant sales and profitability growth over the last 8 years and will drive the Inland Logistics and Services business for the combined US business units for Maersk.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

Key responsibilities

• Establish and maintain an applications roadmap in partnership with business leaders that is aligned with company strategy and incorporates corporate risk and compliance requirements.

• Defines and enhances methodologies and practices for application life cycle management in line with best practices.

• Develops productive relationships with business leaders across the organization to influence how applications can enable new sources of value.

• Develops and manages sourcing models based on in-house and 3rd party resources to meet expanding needs of the enterprise.

• Manages relationships with major vendors and service providers to ensure cost-effective measures are utilized to meet the needs of the organization.

• Ensures that application teams are aligned with departmental development methodologies which are based on Agile/Scrum standards.

• Sponsors elaboration and discovery sessions on solution design, migration, and modern strategy to iteratively modernize legacy applications.

• Leads development of applications solutions with emphasis on reuse, scalability, security, performance and high availability.

• Ensures deployment of effective application support and incident response resources, processes and continuous measurement.

• Fosters a culture of fast paced innovation and adaptability.

We are looking for

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, or other related field

• 15+ years of total experience in a corporate IT environment

• 7+ years of experience managing managers

• 10+ years of progressive IT management experience

• Experience leading software delivery teams using AGILE/SCRUM techniques

• Experience building high performing, innovative and engaged teams

• IT experience in the transportation or logistics industries

• Experience collaborating with organizational leaders to build out multi-year technical visions

• Experience in designing digital solutions across multi-platform and hybrid architectures, including on premise and cloud.

A.P.

Moller
– Maersk is an integrated container logistics company working to connect and simplify its customer’s supply chains.

As the global leader in shipping services, the company operates in 130 countries and employs roughly 70,000 people.

With simple end-to-end offering of products and digital services, seamless customer engagement and a superior end-to-end delivery network, Maersk enables its customers to trade and grow by transporting goods anywhere
– all over the world.

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For further information, please contact: nikki.kelly@maersk.com