Graduate Trainees at Maersk

Location: Lagos
Ref.: ML-048181

We Offer
A challenging and rewarding opportunity where you will build a long-term career in the global trade and transportation industry - during the 2-year Graduate Programme, you will have vast opportunities and be part of an international group of young professionals. Together you will:

•     Build your knowledge from some of the best experts within the shipping and business fields, in your day to day job and in classroom environments.
•     Build a global network that you can leverage in your future interactions to enable collaboration and career.
•     Be significantly exposed to high-level leaders to ensure that theoretical insights are continuously linked to concrete business challenges.
•     Become part of a team where we play to win and ‘we’ always comes before ‘I’.

• Key Responsibilities
•     You will join a team of highly competent colleagues and jointly participate in reaching the objectives of your department.
•     Your manager will continually provide you with individual sparring to help you develop professionally and personally.
•     Being part of a global shipping programme, you will meet your fellow Maersk Liner Graduate Programme participants from all over the world in three seminars where you will receive insights into the Shipping Industry, grow your understanding of the business and grow your personal competences.
•     You will take an active role in your own development and work together with your manager and HR to identify your key development needs and build an action plan.

Who we are looking for

•     Master’s level education in Business or related discipline with a maximum of 3 years’ work experience after graduation in parallel with education or between degrees.
•     Commercial experience will be an advantage.
•     Ambitious individual with a passion and drive to excel.
•     Have an international mind-set and excellent command of English (both spoken and written).
•     A pragmatic and holistic thinker.
•     Resourceful and flexible with strong capabilities to prioritise, optimise and perform under limited resources and tight deadlines.
•     Strong desire to pursue a long-term career within the commercial part of the business.