Platform Product Owner - Pricing Optimization

Maersk
Maidenhead
1 year ago
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Opportunity
Maersk, the world's largest shipping company, is transforming into an industrial digital giant that enables global trade with its air, land, sea and port assets.

In our mission to connect and simplify customers’ supply chain through global end-to-end solutions, we are looking for a Platform Product Owner to build the future digital pricing solution

Platforms are at the forefront of developing cutting edge technologies to improve the customer’s experience with personalized and automated digital journeys.

We offer

The Opportunity Handling Platform digitally enables and automates the offering of our services, including configure, price, quote and contract. In a diverse, ambitious, and curious team, we solve challenging and impactful problems for our customers.

Specifically:

• Build pricing systems to support products & solutions based on their costs and supply consumption

• A chance to work with world class machine learning experts to design algorithms to maximize expected business and user outcomes

• A role in the center of the company strategy

• Ambitious, action oriented and fast paced culture, minimizing barriers to innovation

• A role in a team with experienced and dedicated product owners who lift together

Key responsibilities

The successful Platform Product Owner will be identifying opportunities and building functionality and products that deliver impact, with a good understanding of data science technologies and how they can be applied to solve customer-, user- and business problems.

Specifically:

• Lead a team of data scientists, engineers and software developers working on automating price decision making for our products

• Align with business teams on goals for optimization (e.g. balancing the trade-offs between short-term/long-term profit, volume, growth, etc.) that will vary geographically

• Define short & long-term strategy to achieve optimization goals

• Build and maintain your team's roadmap including defining requirements for new products and features while optimizing existing functionality

• Define and evaluate your product across relevant metrics to make impactful decision making and to report on the team’s success towards key initiatives

• Apply data driven experimentation (A/B testing) and use statistical techniques (causal inference) to evaluate results

We are looking for

• Customer obsessed – a clear track record of delivering elegant solutions for true user problems

• Experience using machine learning to develop world class product

• Experience running A/B tests and developing testing strategies

• Demonstrated ability to use data to guide vision including ability to query, aggregate, analyze and create visualizations

• Proven ability to manage and speak with stakeholders in business and technology

• Visible drive and growth mindset

• Crisp communication both written and oral

• 2+ years' experience as PPO (or comparable role)

• Computer science, statistics, operations research or engineering background including hand-on software development experience

• Dynamic pricing & pricing optimization experience is a plus

At Maersk, we focus on the individual’s development and the right candidate will have broad possibilities to further develop competencies in an environment characterized by change and continuous progress

We value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job – we value diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to: gender, age, nationality, race, sexual orientation, disability or religious beliefs.

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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.

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