RFP Manager (f/m/d)

Allianz Global Investors; Paris; Sur place; EUR 65 000 - 95 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Hybrid work arrangements

Pension/Savings plans

Share purchase plan

Mental health and wellbeing programs

Career opportunities within Allianz

Résumé du poste

Allianz Global Investors in Paris is seeking an experienced RFP professional to coordinate responses to RFPs, DDQs, and RFIs for institutional investors and consultants. You will collaborate with Product Specialists to ensure accurate, up‑to‑date content and consistent messaging that supports client needs.

The role requires strong project management, multi‑stakeholder coordination, and fluency in French and English.

Qualifications

• University degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, or a comparable education.
• Experience in the investment management industry writing RFPs across multiple distribution channels.
• Broad product knowledge across traditional asset classes and alternative strategies, and sustainable investments.
• Solid understanding of global institutional and retail asset management markets, client types, and consultant requirements.
• Excellent project management skills, including the ability to manage complex, multi‑stakeholder submissions under tight deadlines. In addition, you have a strong attention to detail and are committed to excellence.
• Strong working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and hands‑on experience with content library software, ideally Responsive
• Generative AI
• Ability to interact effectively across multiple cultures and seniority levels
• Fluent French and English - additional language is a plus (preferably German or Italian).

Responsabilités

• Lead the coordination and completion of RFPs, DDQs, and RFIs from institutional investors, distributors, and investment consultants, ensuring timely delivery of high‑quality responses.
• Review and refine drafts (own responses and those of teammates), ensuring alignment with client requirements, accuracy of product information, and consistent messaging that positions AllianzGI effectively.
• Work closely with Product Specialists and subject‑matter experts to maintain, update, and elevate the quality of core content, ensuring information is accurate, relevant, and aligned with current market themes and product positioning.
• Develop and optimize templates within Responsive for RFPs and DDQs, driving efficiency and consistency across global usage.
• Participate in initiatives to advance GenAI‑enabled RFP production, content governance, and workflow automation, collaborating with global team to enhance productivity and improve the overall working environment.
• Serve as a key point of expertise across the organization, advising client‑facing teams on RFP best practices and content strategy.
• Contribute to continuous improvement projects, supporting global alignment across RFP standards, content quality, and process efficiency.

Connaissances

RFP writing experience

Project management

Content management

GenAI familiarity

MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint

Intercultural communication

Fluent French & English

Formation

University degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance

Outils

Responsive Content Library

MS Word

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

Description du poste

Our RFP function comprises of RFP teams in Paris, Frankfurt, Munich, London and Hong Kong, Consultant Database Management, and a global Content Management team. The RFP team plays a meaningful role within our business development processes as more and more potential investors request detailed information as part of the tendering process. The RFP team is responsible for answering these requests to a high standard in several languages and ensures that proposals are tailored to the needs of prospective clients.

The role is based in our Paris office.

What You Do

• Lead the coordination and completion of RFPs, DDQs, and RFIs from institutional investors, distributors, and investment consultants, ensuring timely delivery of high‑quality responses
• Review and refine drafts (own responses and those of teammates), ensuring alignment with client requirements, accuracy of product information, and consistent messaging that positions AllianzGI effectively
• Work closely with Product Specialists and subject‑matter experts to maintain, update, and elevate the quality of core content, ensuring information is accurate, relevant, and aligned with current market themes and product positioning
• Develop and optimize templates within Responsive for RFPs and DDQs, driving efficiency and consistency across global usage
• Participate in initiatives to advance GenAI‑enabled RFP production, content governance, and workflow automation, collaborating with global team to enhance productivity and improve the overall working environment
• Serve as a key point of expertise across the organization, advising client‑facing teams on RFP best practices and content strategy
• Contribute to continuous improvement projects, supporting global alignment across RFP standards, content quality, and process efficiency.

What You Bring

• University degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, or a comparable education
• Experience in the investment management industry writing RFPs across multiple distribution channels
• Broad product knowledge across traditional asset classes and alternative strategies, and sustainable investments
• Solid understanding of global institutional and retail asset management markets, client types, and consultant requirements
• Excellent project management skills, including the ability to manage complex, multi‑stakeholder submissions under tight deadlines. In addition, you have a strong attention to detail and are committed to excellence
• Strong working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and hands‑on experience with content library software, ideally Responsive
• Generative AI
• Ability to interact effectively across multiple cultures and seniority levels
• Fluent French and English - additional language is a plus (preferably German or Italian).

As much as your professional skills, we value your personality. We are looking for a new team member with:

• A strong team spirit and excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• A proven intercultural expertise, a high sense of initiative and flexibility and service‑orientation
• In addition, you have a high degree of energy and motivation.

What We Offer

• We empower our employees by ensuring flexible work arrangements that maintain a balance between performance, productivity, career development, and personal priorities (e.g., hybrid model/flexible working hours)
• Securing your future: Access to company pension/savings plans
• Shared success: Company share purchasing plan
• Support for what matters: Mental health and wellbeing programs
• Investments in your career: Career opportunities within the entire Allianz Group
• Investments in your skills: Comprehensive learning and development offerings, including certifications and professional qualifications
• Volunteering time
• … and so much more!

About Allianz Global Investors

Allianz Global Investors is a leading active asset manager, managing assets for individuals, families,and institutions worldwide. Our shared goal to shape a future of opportunity for our clients is foundational to our culture and our values. We look to attract, and actively nurture, individuals with the drive to achieve excellence at every stage of the investment experience.

We believe an inclusive culture is key to a flourishing workforce. Not only do we celebrate the broad range of experiences, backgrounds, and attributes that our workforce brings, but we support our people to live and work in a way that promotes their own wellbeing.

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.

We are united by a shared commitment: to put our clients first and at the centre of everything we do. Their needs inspire our thinking and guide our actions.

Together, we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and confident to explore, grow and shape a better future – for our clients and for 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. The foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and where integrity, fairness, inclusion, and trust are at the heart of our culture.

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.