Head of People Partners

Are You Ready to Navigate the Future of Global Trade?

Maersk is a global leader in integrated logistics and has been an industry pioneer for over a century. Through innovation and transformation, we are redefining the boundaries of possibility and continuously setting new standards for efficiency, sustainability, and excellence.

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.

What we Offer:

• Global Reach, Local Impact: Thrive in a role with international scope, contributing to projects that shape global trade.

• Inclusive and Dynamic Culture: Join a team where diversity is strength, fostering an environment rich in personal and professional growth opportunities.

• Competitive Rewards: Benefit from a compensation package matching your role as a leading industry player, complemented by best-in-class benefits and talent development programs recognized worldwide.

About the role:

This role is a strategic advisor to business leaders, shaping and executing people strategies that enable organizational performance, operational excellence, and future growth. Serving as a trusted leadership partner, this role helps build a high-performance culture by strengthening leadership capability, guiding organizational design, and ensuring teams are structured and equipped to deliver against business priorities.

In addition to influencing senior leaders, this role leads a People Partner team across multiple areas in North America. This includes developing talent, setting clear operating rhythms, driving consistency in people processes, and ensuring the team delivers high-quality strategic partnership to the business. The role fosters a strong, unified People Partner community with aligned standards, capabilities, and ways of working.

Leveraging people analytics, workforce insights, and business acumen, the Head of People Partnering informs strategic workforce planning, identifies capability and leadership gaps, and drives decisions related to talent pipelines, succession, and organizational effectiveness.

The role provides expert consultation on organizational design, change leadership, culture shaping, and leadership development, ensuring that solutions are proactive, data-driven, and aligned with the global People Strategy.

Through forward-looking insight, disciplined execution, and strong team leadership, this role plays a critical role in enabling talent, shaping culture, and driving sustainable business results across a complex, fast-moving global organization.

In this role, you will:

1. Strategic Business Partnership

• Serve as a strategic advisor to senior business leaders, translating business priorities into integrated people strategies.

• Provide thought partnership on organizational performance, workforce planning, capability building, and long-term talent needs.

• Influence leadership decisions with data-driven insights, proactive recommendations, and deep business understanding.

2. Leadership of the People Partner Organization

• Lead, coach, and develop a People Partner team across multiple sites and functions.

• Establish clear standards, operating rhythms, and ways of working to ensure consistent, high-quality partnership across the business.

• Build a strong succession pipeline within the People function, driving continuous capability growth and professional development.

• Foster a collaborative, aligned, and empowered People Partner community.

3. Workforce Strategy & People Analytics

• Use people analytics and workforce insights to guide strategic workforce planning and identify future talent requirements.

• Assess capability gaps and partner with leaders to build or buy talent needed for growth, innovation, and operational excellence.

• Lead data-informed succession planning, talent reviews, and readiness strategies for critical roles

4. Talent, Leadership & Culture

• Shape a high-performance culture through leadership effectiveness, coaching, and alignment to company values.

• Partner with leaders and COEs to implement leadership development programs tailored to current and emerging business needs.

• Guide the design and execution of engagement strategies, culture initiatives, and retention plans.

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