Forecasting Lead

Allianz Partners; United Arab Emirates; Hybrid; AED 300,000 - 480,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Allianz Partners is seeking a Global Forecasting & Analytics Lead for Workforce Management in AP Health Operations. The role focuses on developing accurate demand forecasts, integrating data quality, and producing capacity plans across multiple sites and languages.

Hybrid analytics/workforce-planning, with leadership to junior forecasters. Responsibilities include building time-series models, presenting insights to stakeholders, and driving AI-assisted forecasting initiatives while ensuring data

Qualifications

• Experience building forecasting models across multiple sites and languages.
• Ability to maintain data quality and governance for forecasting.
• Proven ability to present forecasts and recommendations to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain forecasting models using time-series methods (ARIMA, SARIMA, TBATS).
• Collaborate with BI and operations to understand demand drivers and produce capacity plans.
• Present forecasts and recommendations to WFM, Operations and leadership.
• Coach and develop junior forecasters.
• Develop AI-assisted forecasting solutions to reduce manual effort.

Skills

Forecasting

Data analysis

Communication

Mentoring

AI literacy

Tools

Excel

Power BI

AllianzGPT

Claude

Job description

Global Forecasting & Analytics Lead, Workforce Management, AP Health Operations

About The Role

Reporting to Global Lead of Workforce Management, the Forecasting Lead is responsible for developing and maintaining accurate demand forecasts to support demand planning for a vast insurance enterprise, spanning several languages and work types.

This role analyzes historical data, identifies trends, and applies quantitative and qualitative techniques to generate reliable volume projections across various product lines and business segments.

You will need to be able to handle a dynamic and changing environment, and meet deadlines across multiple concurrent workstreams, ensuring that the business is informed of the changes and development of our customer bases, and recommendations to meet the demand as appropriate.

You will have an interest in data and take pride in preserving its integrity and accuracy to keep planning teams well informed. You will be able to use a WFM System to create and navigate forecasting models to ensure the correct ones are in place to support the needs of the business.

The role will also involve contributions to capacity planning and recruitment, as well as the development of junior forecasters who will be supporting this role.

This is a hybrid analytics / workforce-planning role. If you have the data skills and are curious about workforce forecasting, we encourage you to apply even without WFM experience.

What You Will Need

• Collect the data needed for forecasting from the Business Intelligence team, and work with operations teams to understand demand drivers — so that you and the internal WFM team can produce the plans and deliver capacity recommendations to Operation leadership
• Own data quality and availability checks that models depend on, and uphold data integrity within the WFM system
• Build and maintain long- and short-term forecasting models using time-series methods (ARIMA, SARIMA, TBATS and similar), across multiple sites, languages and work types, front and back office.
• Present forecasts, variance and recommendations regularly to WFM, Operations and business stakeholders, using Excel, Power BI and other formats suited to the audience
• Convert model outputs into clear insights and recommendations for capacity planning, recruitment and budget FTE requirements
• Monitor forecast accuracy and variance against actuals, and assess the impact of upcoming business change (volume shifts, new work types, product launches) — triggering reforecasts and flagging risk to the planning team when either calls for it
• Design and build AI-assisted, low-/no-code agents and skills (via internal AllianzGPT, Claude or similar) to reduce manual forecasting effort and speed up recurring analysis
• AI- Work effectively in an environment shaped by artificial intelligence, machine learning, data, analytics and cloud-based tools, using insights responsibly with our standards of data governance, security and ethical use.
• Document methodologies, model specifications and results
• Coach and develop junior forecasters supporting the function

Other Requirements

• Support project assignments as required

How We Hire

Allianz Partners does not accept unsolicited CV’s or approaches from agencies. We only work with partners on our approved supplier lists, under contract. Any unsolicited submission will not be considered.

106036 | Operations | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent

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.

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