ETMO Portfolio Manager

Allianz; London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

Allianz is looking for an experienced leader in Change Management to drive transformation initiatives across the Personal business unit. The role focuses on shaping and delivering a Change Roadmap while managing a significant change budget and enhancing customer outcomes through risk management and strategic planning. This opportunity offers a competitive salary and benefits within a supportive and inclusive working environment, committed to employee flexibility and development.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Annual performance bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Development days

Discounts on insurance products

Volunteering days

Qualifications

• Experience in leading change initiatives within large organizations.
• Proven track record in management roles, especially in strategic transformation.
• Strong understanding of insurance industry trends.

Responsibilities

• Drive simplification and prioritization of change initiatives.
• Engage with leadership to shape and own the change roadmap.
• Manage annual planning dialogue and investment alignment.

Skills

Communication

Relationship Management

Leadership

Change Management

Strategic Mindset

Education

Relevant degree or experience

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Role Description

In this role you will provide enterprise Transformation Portfolio Management (eTMO) leadership in shaping, establishing and delivering the Change Roadmap for the Allianz Personal business. The role reports into the Head of eTMO for the UK business. In addition, you will also be accountable for implementation and adoption of the Change Delivery Framework (Ways of Working), the control environment, technical capability management and change management and the Portfolio Management Office, and Strategic Portfolio Management tool within AzP, helping to ensure we undertake the right activity and that we are delivering strong customer outcomes.

A key focus will be to provide leadership and direction to the various teams in order to drive simplification, consistency, prioritization and benefits realization whilst continuing to ensure we protect our customers and fulfil our wider obligations (e.g. Regulatory, Group etc.).

Salary Information

Pay: Circa £85,000 per year. Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.

Key Accountabilities

• Efficiently and effectively deliver the desired outcomes from the overall investment in change activity across Allianz Personal, working collaboratively with the Head of Change, Change leadership teams and key Business stakeholders.
• This includes Strategy & Investment Funding / Decision Making and managing the Change budget (c£40m)
• Stakeholder Management, engaging with and providing advice to Allianz Personal Leadership team to shape and own the future roadmap of Change
• Manage annual planning dialogue for Allianz Personal, working closely with the Head of Change and Business stakeholders, ensuring that investment is aligned with strategic aspirations, balanced against the broader UK change agenda.
• Play a critical role in triage of new investment to establish strategic alignment, roadmap impacts, and options to deliver, driving effective decision making for Allianz Personal Leadership.
• Champion and lead prioritization of initiatives inline with UK standards, ensuring that Allianz Personal Leadership team are actively reviewing and refining to help inform prioritization of funding and resource.
• Reporting up to Change Investment Committee (CIC) to drive insight into Allianz Personal change roadmap such as key delivery progress, key risks and issues and critical milestone tracking.
• Facilitate papers into Board/ExCo/CIC to ensure alignment with governance processes and provide insight where needed. Champion and drive approval on our recommendation to implement our preferred partner to supply a Strategic Portfolio Management Tool for Allianz UK.
• Work across the eTMO building Capabilities and delivery across the wider business.
• The development of the Change Delivery Framework, Ways of Working & Controls within Lean Governance, driving simplification and productivity gains, whilst continuing to ensure we protect our customers and fulfil our wider obligations (e.g. Regulatory, Group etc.).
• Plans across multiple years to ensure the change function is designed to support the future strategic needs of the OE through effective strategic workforce planning
• Lead and develop the AzP eTMO team, providing critical oversight and insight across the portfolio of Change that includes delivery performance and financial metrics.
• Provides oversight and assistance to support resolution of portfolio wide risks, dependencies and issues.
• Provide consultancy and help to define and shape any significant transformation change (e.g. M&A, Partnerships, new strategic initiatives).
• Supports engagement across Business Change teams and the wider organizational perception of 'how change is managed here'.

Further activities include:

• Oversees the team providing all project and programme reporting artefacts including Group reporting
• Supplies portfolio analysis and challenge in support of the overall management of the portfolio, prioritisation and dependency management.
• Sets the approach and requirements to actively manage dependencies across the portfolio.
• Financial control to track cost and spend across the portfolio (often via PMs).
• Ensures Portfolio Quality is achieved through application of relevant quality standards.
• Champion continuous improvement by actively looking for innovative opportunities to improve service quality and value of output

Technical Skills

• Robust communication and relationship management skills
• Leadership and Strategy
• Understanding of Change Management and Behavioural Change disciplines
• Relationship management and consultancy/strategic mind-set
• Thorough understanding of Allianz UK business areas and wider insurance industry trends
• Good understanding of technology and ability to collaborate with IT
• Wide knowledge and application of APM/ Portfolio Management based capabilities:
  • Governance
  • Portfolio Variation/Change Management
  • Benefits Management
  • Planning (scheduling)
  • Resource Management
  • Risk and Issue Management
  • Frameworks and Methodologies
  • Business Readiness/Transition
  • KPIs and OKRs

What We Will Offer You

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that's perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That's on top of enjoying all the benefits you'd expect from the world's number one insurance brand, including:

• Flexible buy/sell holiday options
• Hybrid working
• Annual performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• Development days
• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
• Retail discounts
• Volunteering days

Our Ways of Working

Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it's right for our customers, our business and for you, then we'll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Allianz, we prioritize diversity and inclusion, demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community's Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.

We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.

We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it's assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.

Accessible Application for All

As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, for those meeting the essential skills for the role.

Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications.

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Closing date 27/06/2025

We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.

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