Global People Operations Manager (m/f/d)

Allianz Technology; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Company bonus scheme

Pension

Employee shares program

Healthcare

Job summary

Allianz Technology seeks a Global People Operations Manager to drive governance, compliance and end-to-end process management across the P&C function. You will coordinate safeguarding efforts, align with global frameworks, and ensure the P&C tech landscape is resilient and compliant.

You will lead data governance, policy reviews, and stakeholder collaboration across global and local teams, enabling strategic People Operations initiatives and mobility programs while working in a hybrid model.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in global P&C process governance and improvement.
• Proven ability to standardize and document end-to-end processes.
• Experience coordinating safeguarding frameworks, data privacy, and audits.
• Strong governance over HR tech landscapes and third-party oversight.
• Excellent cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end P&C process governance and documentation.
• Drive standardization and continuous improvement across People Operations.
• Coordinate safeguarding initiatives with regulatory and security teams.
• Ensure controls meet internal, regulatory, risk, and audit requirements.
• Oversee P&C application landscape governance and vendor documentation.
• Lead data quality, privacy compliance, and data ownership models.
• Represent P&C in policy reviews and enterprise governance artifacts.
• Act as trusted advisor across P&C, Risk, IT, Legal and external partners.

Skills

Global P&C governance

Stakeholder management

Regulatory & audit readiness

Data privacy & governance

Cross-functional collaboration

AI technologies familiarity

Tools

HR technology resilience

P& C tech portfolio governance

Job description

About The Job

The Global People Operations Manager drives operational excellence, governance, compliance, and end-to-end process management across the People & Culture (P&C) function at Allianz Technology. Acting as the central coordination point between P&C business stakeholders, safeguarding functions, and technology and operational delivery teams, you will ensure that P&C services, processes, and applications are effective, compliant, scalable, and aligned with organizational objectives.

What You Do

• Own and coordinate end-to-end P&C process governance, including process mapping, redesign, ownership alignment, and documentation. Drive process standardization and continuous improvement across People Operations; maintain published documentation and quality standards with process owners and governance teams. Serve as the central coordinator for safeguarding initiatives impacting P&C; align with frameworks including DORA, DIRM, TPRM, BCM, ITSCM (BIA), NFRM, as well as data privacy and audit.
• Ensure P&C processes and applications meet internal control, regulatory, risk, and compliance requirements; support audits, regulatory reviews, gap assessments, remediation, and evidence collection. Maintain oversight of associated entities (metafinanz, POS, AZT Iberolatam, AZT Austria) and ensure safeguarding activities are covered by their P&C functions.
• Oversee governance of the P&C application landscape and third-party solutions; coordinate business ownership responsibilities and lifecycle governance. Manage application safeguarding requirements, service ownership transitions, and vendor documentation; partner with IT service owners and platform teams to ensure operational resilience and compliance of P&C technology.
• Establish and improve controls related to employee data management and P&C operations; support data quality, data governance, and data privacy compliance. Coordinate ownership models, reporting structures, and accountability mechanisms for people data and processes.
• Represent P&C in corporate policy and standards reviews; assess operational impacts and provide business feedback during policy vetting. Ensure P&C requirements are reflected in enterprise-wide governance documentation.
• Act as a trusted advisor across P&C, Risk, Data Privacy, Information Security, Audit, Legal, IT, and external partners; facilitate alignment between global and local P&C teams. Lead discussions on ownership models, governance responsibilities, and operational improvements.
• Lead strategic People Operations initiatives and transformation activities; coordinate implementation of new operating models, governance structures, and process improvements. Support organizational changes affecting People Operations, talent processes, global mobility, employee lifecycle management, and people data management.

What You Bring

• Deep experience in global people operations process governance and continuous improvement, with a strong track record of standardizing and documenting end-to-end P&C processes.
• Practical expertise coordinating safeguarding frameworks (e.g., DORA, DIRM, TPRM, BCM, ITSCM/BIA, NFRM), data privacy, internal controls, and audit readiness.
• Strong background in P&C application and service portfolio governance, including HR technology resilience, lifecycle management, and third-party oversight.
• Proven data governance skills: data quality, privacy-by-design, operational controls, and ownership/accountability frameworks.
• Strong policy and standards literacy with the ability to assess operational impacts and embed requirements into P&C processes and technology.
• Exceptional cross-functional stakeholder management and change leadership skills, operating effectively across global and local teams.
• Familiarity with AI technologies and GenAI platforms is a strong advantage.

What We Offer

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
• We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location).
• From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.
• Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.

About Allianz Technology

With its headquarters in Munich, Germany, Allianz Technology is Allianz's global IT service provider and delivers IT solutions that drive the group's digitalization. With more than 11,000 employees in over 20 countries around the world, Allianz Technology is tasked to run, optimize, transform and innovate the infrastructure, applications and services together with Allianz companies to co-create the best customer experience.

We service the entire spectrum of digitalization – from one of the industry's largest IT infrastructure projects that spans data centres, networks and security, to application platforms ranging from workplace services to digital interaction.

In short: We deliver comprehensive end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age. We are the backbone of Allianz.

Find us at: www.linkedin.com/company/allianz-technology.

Commitment to Integrity, Fairness & Inclusion

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.

We at Allianz believe in a strong inclusive culture that encourages people to speak their minds, get involved and question the status quo. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love, or what you believe in. We therefore welcome applications regardless of race, ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

To Recruitment Agencies

Allianz Technology has an in-house recruitment team that sources great candidates directly. Therefore, Allianz Technology does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies or search firm recruiters.

When we do work with recruitment agencies, that engagement is formalized by a contract. Fees will only be paid when there is a contract in place. Without a contract in place, we will not accept invoices on unsolicited resumes, even if the candidate was ultimately employed by Allianz.

Full-Time | Permanent