Maersk appoints Mohit Bhatia as head of Maersk Global Service Centres

August 18, 2021: A.P. Moller - Maersk has appointed Mohit Bhatia as senior vice president and head of Maersk Global Service Centres (GSC) effective August 1, 2021. Mohit previously held the position of joint managing director, Maersk GSC, with responsibility for finance before taking over the overall leadership including commercial and operations functions.

Joined Maersk in 2019, Bhatia is an industry stalwart and brings strong expertise of over 30 years in transforming and managing large companies across IT, banking and food & snacking sectors. Mohit is a chartered accountant and finances professional who is skilled in CFO responsibilities, business processes, re-engineering, global delivery, shared services, and business transformations including successful implementations of technology platforms and digital & robotic process automation.

Henriette Hallberg Thygesen, CEO, fleet & strategic brands, A.P. Moller – Maersk, said, “Mohit Bhatia has played a key role in the company from his very first day and I am pleased that he will now assume overall responsibility of Maersk GSC. Along with his functional expertise in finance, Mohit brings a unique experience of leading large scale transformations at similar capabilities centres which will greatly benefit our GSC teams who are crucial in driving our ambition of becoming an integrated container logistics company, servicing our customers' end-to-end digital products.”

Mohit commented, “I am honoured to take over the responsibility of Maersk GSC at a time when the logistics sector is undergoing an important transformation. As an industry leader, we are fronting this transformation through a robust technology plan that, together with end-to-end connected processes, will enable us to become truly customer-centric.”

The Maersk GSC plays a critical role in delivering customer outcomes and enables decision making and prioritization for Maersk based on its end-to-end process view. To enable Maersk’s vision of becoming an integrated container logistics company, Maersk GSC has locked down the following four themes as a part of its priorities:

• GSC’s direct contribution to customer experience outcomes, and support to Maersk’s overall growth agenda
• Drive best-in-class efforts to deliver cost and cash leadership for Maersk
• Drive process readiness to support future technology from a Digital, Platform and Data perspective
• Build a highly engaged workforce that is future-ready and a culture that supports Maersk’s Strategy

With a strength of more than 12,000 employees, Maersk GSC is spread across India (Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, and Pune), China (Chengdu) and the Philippines (Manila), with a small hub in Morocco (Tangier).