Senior Partnership Manager

Allianz; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive Culture

Work-life balance

Career Development

Financial and Well-being Perks

Job summary

Allianz Australia is seeking a Senior Partnership Manager to lead strategic relationships with underwriting agency partners across Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. You will drive profitable growth, governance, and executive engagement while aligning with Allianz priorities and delegated authority frameworks.

You will develop partnership plans, monitor performance, and use data insights to identify opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience in general insurance, with knowledge of distribution, underwriting, and delegated authority models.
• Ability to build and influence senior stakeholders, including agency leaders and cross-divisional teams.
• Ability to navigate complexity, balance risk and commercial considerations, and deliver pragmatic solutions.
• Experience developing and executing strategic plans and governance for growth and profitability.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute strategic partnership plans for underwriting agency partners.
• Build trusted relationships with agency principals and Allianz stakeholders to drive alignment and growth.
• Lead executive engagement, governance forums, and performance reporting.
• Monitor agency performance, control frameworks, and delegated authority operations.
• Identify growth opportunities using data and market insights.
• Negotiate and manage contracts, ensuring regulatory and compliance obligations.
• Prepare business cases and engage cross-divisional stakeholders for reviews.
• Act as escalation point for significant opportunities and service issues.

Skills

Strategic partnerships

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Governance

Data-driven decision making

Cross-divisional collaboration

Change management

Executive communication

Contract management

Financial acumen

Job description

SENIOR PARTNERSHIP MANAGER, UNDERWRITING AGENCIES | SYDNEY, MELBOURNE, BRISBANE

At Allianz, we’re proud to be named one of the Best Workplaces in Australia 2026 and a Great Place to Work. As a leading global insurance and asset management brand, we prioritise care for our customers, the planet, and each other. We hire the very best people to further our commitment to caring and securing the future for our customers.

We offer an inclusive workplace where everyone feels like they belong, while promoting a culture of lifelong learning, development, and global mobility. Join us and share your ideas, be inspired, give back to the community and feel proud to be a part of an organisation doing meaningful work that matters while supporting sustainability, mental health, and well-being.

Let’s care for tomorrow, so we can create a better future together, for everyone.

The Personal Injury & Commercial division is Allianz Australia's largest distribution channel encompassing products distributed via a broker intermediary and our underwriting agency partners.

We are currently looking for a Senior Partnership Manager to join our Underwriting Agencies team to lead strategic relationships and performance oversight for group of designated underwriting agency partners, ensuring profitable growth, strong executive engagement, effective governance, and alignment with Allianz priorities, frameworks, risk appetite and customer expectations.

About the role

• Developing and executing strategic partnership plans for a group of underwriting agencies, covering growth and performance priorities, relationship structures, residual risk management, governance obligations, and key deliverables.
• Building and maintaining trusted relationships with agency principals, senior executives, broker leadership teams and internal Allianz stakeholders to drive strategic alignment, advocacy and growth.
• Leading joint executive engagement, governance forums and reporting to review performance, emerging risks, remediation progress and strategic opportunities.
• Collaborating with cross-divisional colleagues you will monitor agency performance to ensure effective operation of control frameworks, reportability and continuous improvement by the underwriting agency as it relates to delegated authority arrangements.
• Using data, insights and market intelligence to identify growth opportunities, profitability levers, operational improvements and areas requiring intervention.
• Managing the negotiation, implementation of contracts and the ongoing monitoring, ensuring all contractual, regulatory and compliance obligations are met.
• Preparing business cases and reporting that effectively engages cross-divisional stakeholders for relevant reviews and approvals in line with Allianz policies and procedures.
• Act as the primary escalation point for significant opportunities, service issues, operational friction and matters requiring senior stakeholder alignment, while ensuring accurate and timely reporting to all relevant stakeholders and governance forums

About you

• Experience in the general insurance industry understanding key commercial drivers, including distribution, underwriting, claims, delegated authority models, products, portfolio performance, governance frameworks, and regulatory expectations
• Demonstrated ability to build, manage and influence senior internal and external stakeholder relationships, including agency leaders, framework owners and cross-divisional leadership teams.
• Ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity, balance commercial and risk considerations, and provide pragmatic solutions that meet stakeholder expectations.
• Extensive experience developing and executing business strategies, strategic partnership plans and operational plans aligned to organisational priorities, customer expectations and profitable growth.
• Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to use market, competitor, performance, risk and customer insights to identify opportunities, improve outcomes and make pragmatic recommendations.
• Proven ability to identify, pursue and deliver business development, portfolio improvement and operational effectiveness opportunities that contribute to sustainable growth and profitability in a complex matrix organisation.
• Proven capability to manage change, influence adoption and support organisational transformation through effective communication, collaboration and practical implementation planning.
• Experience managing complex negotiations and ensuring acceptable commercial, financial, service, governance and compliance conditions are agreed and delivered.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate with audiences at all levels with clarity, impact and influence.
• A passion for leveraging emerging technologies to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Benefits and perks

• Inclusive Culture: Join a supportive, open-minded team focused on customer outcomes, bringing your authentic self to work every day!
• Work-life balance: Enjoy our flexible, hybrid work arrangements, and tailored workplace adjustments, where possible.

• Career Development: Access mentoring, development and global mobility opportunities for growth and success, including access to over 10,000 learning resources.

• Financial and Well-being Perks: Enjoy discounts on Allianz products, retail, tech, and travel, plus financial wellness initiatives and the Employee Share Purchase Program- own a piece of your employer!

• For more details about our benefits, visit the Allianz Careers site.

About Allianz Group

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.

Adjustments and support

If you require any support and adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process, we encourage you to reach out to [e-mail] for a confidential conversation.

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