Mærsk

Esplanaden: The office that I work in is refered to as "Esplanaden"....not a very unique name as that is the name of the street it is on! It is in an excellent location - right on the water, across from the Opera House, 5 min from the Little Mermaid and 5 min from Nyhavn. There is underground parking for our bikes (though I just park across the street), a dry cleaner, a gym, and a canteen. The canteen serves breakfast and lunch daily. We also get daily baskets of fruit delivered to our departments which is great...though there is always a fight for the bananas!

What do I do? I work in the Centre Sales and Planning group. Copenhagen in the HQ for Mærsk, which has Area headquarters in 16 different Areas around the world (i.e. North America, South America, Central Europe, Greater China, etc). The Centre functions do a lot of the planning/strategy and then the Areas do the implementing. I am the implementation manager of a project called FORESIGHT which is a global forecasting platform. Previously, we had no uniform forecasting process or system for Sales to indicate how much of our ship's space was going to be in demand for the coming months. My job involves working with our technical team in London to ensure the system meets the business requirements, working the the Area inmplementation managers to ensure their roll out plans are going smoothly and assist them with any issues they have, make process guidelines, and work with other departments to make sure FORESIGHT data is incorporated into the end to end process of getting cargo from point A to point B. I started right before we went live, and now we're right in the middle of the first phase, so things have been hectic to say the least! While it is quite stressful at times, I do like it and I am learning a lot.