Job description

Program Manager M/F

Allianz Partners provides diverse expertise in automotive, international health & life, travel insurance, assistance and direct sales and is at the forefront of the Allianz B2B2C offering.

Our 22,000+ employees are based across 34 countries and combine 58 different languages and 60 nationalities, reflecting the truly diverse nature of Allianz Worldwide Partners.

Allianz Health and Life are the international health experts at Allianz Partners.

Our focus is on addressing the health and wellbeing protection needs of clients worldwide, through the delivery of straightforward, innovative solutions that make each client feel understood, confident and valued.

The dedicated multicultural teams who deliver this service and support have a clear culture of making a positive difference to clients in every interaction, by taking a personal and solution oriented approach.

Allianz Partners Health & Life offers health, life and disability insurance as well as a wide range of health and protection services to employers and insurance partners worldwide.

Allianz Partners Health has a unique and exciting job opportunity available for someone who enjoys challenging the status quo and seeking out creative ways to support the company`s largest platform transformation program – Iris.

The candidate required will possess the right balance of technical project management knowhow along with influencing and relationship building skills necessary to drive the Iris Program to a successful conclusion and within challenging deadlines.

Ultimately, this candidate will be the core liaison between our global business functions and the IT delivery partners, being comfortable translating the strategic needs of each department and ensuring an alignment exists between the project stakeholders.

What you do

Project Management Excellence

• Ability to manage and deliver multiple complex IT Programs of work in parallel, responsible for business benefit realisation at Program level and ensuring company strategic goals are delivered

• • Defined Life Cycle and Milestones: map and define phases, deliverables, key milestones and sufficiency criteria for each stage in the project lifecycle
  • Stable Requirements and Scope: requirements, objectives and scope are documented and stabilized
  • Defined Organization, Systems, and Roles: establish project charters, with clearly defined structures, and roles for all involved
  • Quality Assurance: Establishing and meeting agreed to commitments with a constant eye for improvement.
    
    Ensure clarity on the standards and criteria to be set in each phase of the project life cycle for both the product and the process
  • Planned Commitments: Planning, scheduling, resource allocation and staffing, and budgeting
  • Scope and mission; define project boundaries, establish goals and objectives.
    
    Ensuring there is a clear business case which can provide a basis for decision-making
  • Scheduling; capacity planning and evaluation, evaluation of activity sequences and duration plus resource requirements to create the project schedule
  • Budgeting: development of an overall cost estimate based on individual work items to be used as a cost baseline for measuring project performance
  • Personnel: Determine the recruitment, selection, and training of project team members
  • Evaluation and control: provide a complete and transparent picture of the project’s progress
  • Risk and problems: Systematically identifying, assessing and managing risks, issues, assumptions and decisions.
    
    Being proactive rather than reactive for possible future disruptive events
  • Quality: Ensuring the delivered products meets expectations

Strategy alignment

• Ensure alignment with Strategic Planning Process so that all Programs are aligned with the overall strategy of the business

• Engage with Business leaders on strategic Program planning and prioritisation of initiatives, collaborating the role of the Strategic Project office to ensure successful delivery of the company strategy

Project Methodologies

• Insure Project methodologies (Agile), Project delivery processes, and implementation management processes are followed

Stakeholder Engagement

• Engage with executive level stakeholders across the business

• Foster strong working relationship with Business Sponsors, Key Stakeholders, Business Analysis, Development & Testing teams

Communication

• Provides clear and concise Program communication; both written and verbal.
  
  Often communicating with company executives regarding the status of Programs and delivery of related business outcomes

Team Leadership

• Fosters a positive, open and supportive leadership team within OM
• Promote an OM team spirit
• Derives and implements activities to support team motivation and engagement
• Build a team of highly capable professionals that are empowered and self sufficient

Team Management

• Attract and hire top talent
• Benchmark and standardise Team objectives & measures
• Maximise the potential of all team members, dedicating time to focus on development plans for high potentials in the team.
• Strengthen consequence management, to address any lower than expected performance & handle in a way that doesn't negatively impact team spirit / morale / reputation

Team Ambassador

• Represent Organisational Management across the business; proactively engaging, facilitating workshops, sharing knowledge, and providing advice in terms of the most effective use of technology to support delivery of the business's strategic ambitions
• Working with your peers, proactively lead development of the Organisational Management Team and its objectives

Travel

• Some (on occasions significant) travel will be required for this role to support the needs of the busines

Behaviour/Values Required:

The Allianz People Attributes nicely summaries the key behaviours./ values we expect:

Customer & Market Excellence:

• Strives for excellence at every touch point with the customer
• Foster state of the art technical / operational knowledge and strive for continuous simplification
• Strives to be the benchmark

Collaborative Leadership:

• empowers others and provides direction and purpose
• develops people, provide feedback and care for employee wellbeing.
• collaborates and exchanges best practice

Entrepreneurship:

• acts on opportunities, anticipate trends, take risks, and promotes a culture and allows for honest failure
• takes ownership and responsibility
• embraces innovation and a culture that allows to make decisions with fear of retribution

Trust:

• acts with integrity, we honour our commitments and we tell the truth
• acts transparently and promote corporate social responsibility
• fosters diversity and inclusiveness

What you bring

• 15+ years of experience, running multiple complex Programs of work.
• Educated to degree level
• Knowledge of Financial Services/ Insurance Industry Sector
• Demonstrate experience of both waterfall and agile Project delivery
• Project Management Training such as PMI a distinct advantage
• Top-Tier Consulting experience a distinct advantag

What we offer

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work in growing multicultural company committed to empowering its employees and furthering their development.

A competitive remuneration and benefits package is offered, including healthcare, pension, life & disability, travel subsidy, discounts on home and car insurance, sports & social club and support for professional studies

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world.

Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer.

Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all.

And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

Great to have you on board. Let's care for tomorrow

83902 | Project Management | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent

Required Skill Profession

Operations Specialties Managers