Senior Deployment Manager – OT

APM Terminals At APM Terminals, a global leader in port and terminal operations, we enable global trade and drive sustainable growth. What drives us forward is a mindset of always improving — observing how work happens, identifying what creates value, and removing what gets in the way. We constantly look for smarter, simpler, and safer ways of operating. If you thrive in environments where people value learning and are committed to continuously improve daily operations, join us and be apart of our journey.

What We Can Offer: At APMT Terminals, we foster a dynamic learning and training culture that empowers our employees to excel. Our commitment to improvement is driven by Lean principles, ensuring that every team member has the opportunity to develop their skills and advance their careers. Experience a diverse, multinational workplace where your operational insights directly influence how we work.

One of the 4 core strategic pillars in APMTs longer term strategy is operational excellence : “This is our platform for current and new terminals, where all value streams are standard, scalable, and replicable from acquisition, to construction, integration and all the way down to running a terminal”. Implementing, optimizing and scaling Operations Technology & Analytics will play a pivotal role in achieving our strategic goals, ranging from initiatives like implementing complex brownfield automation at fast pace to optimize manhours per move or efforts to optimize running-hours per move by deploying asset digitization in our more conventional terminals. To be successful, our terminals need to be supported by a focused, aligned and agile global team that adds value by Subject Matter Expertise, standardization and agile decision-making.

The Senior Deployment Manager leads the execution of the product deployment roadmap and the deployment teams to deliver the projects effectively (scope within budget and timeline), ensuring products support value realization as per approved business cases.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Lead project managers and the product deployment teams to execute the deployments effectively (under defined scope, within the budget and timeline) in support of the product value proposition and as per plan to the terminal and end-customers.
• Enable the deployment teams to operationalize global, cross-functional product definitions within terminal specific conditions including any related site-specific configurations that need to be aligned between global and local stakeholders.
• Manage the deployment teams to effectively implement the automated products in the live terminal operations as per plan and without local business disruption as well as resolve any related challenges on day-to-day basis.
• Continuously ensure the deployment fulfils all site-specific needs as defined in consultation with the terminal team within the product blueprint for site deployment.
• Ensure consistent deployment approach across all sites that the given product is being deployed in and resolve any related challenges.
• Own deployment specific performance criteria and monitor the progress and take actions as needed.
• Manage deployment resources and optimize assignments based on priority and expertise.
• Work closely with Product pillars to establish a common deployment approach and achieve improved product experience, make use of the best practices and ensure the relevant framework is implemented / followed.
• Work with suppliers to develop the effective business partnership and proactively ensure their delivery is meeting the APM Terminals plans/targets.
• Facilitate the first line of support for the given deployment at the terminals until go-live and remain involved until Operations stability.
• Monitor all deployment related risks and opportunities and lead their mitigation / exploitation.
• Establish the framework of facilitating capability building / knowledge transfer to terminal staff as part o