Project Manager

Allianz; Croydon; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company based in Croydon seeks a Project Manager for the End-to-End Process Improvement team. This role involves overseeing project management, optimizing customer journeys, and implementing innovative solutions to enhance operational effectiveness. Candidates should have experience in service delivery in the travel sector and skills in data analytics and process improvement. The position offers opportunities for professional development in a supportive and flexible working environment.

Benefits

Personal and professional development programs

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Work-life balance flexibility

Qualifications

• Related service delivery OPS experience in TRAVEL.
• Experience deploying technology/digital related solutions.
• Ability to incorporate complex operational and technical constraints.

Responsibilities

• Implement E2E PI strategy for TRAVEL LoB.
• Evaluate automation and digitalization technologies.
• Optimize customer journeys and processes.

Skills

Service delivery OPS experience in TRAVEL

Detail oriented

Clear documentation skills

Affinity with numbers

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Overview

The End-to-End (E2E) Process Improvement (PI) Project Manager is placed within our operations division and is directly reporting to the Travel E2E PI Manager. This role is at the forefront of Allianz Partners operational transformation; reshaping and optimizing service delivery through continuous process improvement and digitalization initiatives. This position involves designing initiatives and project managing their implementations for TRAVEL LoB. This role collaborates across departments, fosters a culture of change, and ensures the successful adoption of automation/digitalization and other non-digital PI solutions. This position is pivotal in driving operational excellence, leveraging data analytics, and aligning technology with organizational targets.

Primary objectives include identifying and closing GAPS with the service delivery global target process and target customer journey, in line with operational targets, state-of-the-art technological solutions and evolving (AI) Group guidelines.

In this role the Project Manager also assures synchronization with Global TRAVEL team with the aim of utilizing group initiatives and rolling them out to the benefit the LOB.

What you will do

• Strategy Implementation: Implement E2E PI strategy for the Operations department for TRAVEL LoB in alignment with organizational targets of Allianz Partners.
• Technology Evolution: Evaluate and integrate latest automation and digitalization technologies for customer journey and process automation in alignment with Allianz technical experts.
• Process/ Customer Journey Optimization: Leverage the existing Global Customer Journeys and Processes and implement them for TRAVEL LoB to the benefit of maximizing productivity and customer satisfaction in all processes. Taking into consideration other LoB process evolutions.
• Data Analytics: Utilize data analytics and process mining tools to gain insights into customer journey, customer experience and process performance and in consequence identify areas for improvement and support data-driven decision-making.
• Innovation: Encourage a culture of innovation within the Operations department, fostering creative solutions and continuous improvement through all available and new means of technical and organizational instruments. Accompanying key-users in their request for process evolutions.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with multiple departments to ensure a seamless integration of target journey, target processes, and all operations projects across the organization.
• Change Management: Drive change management initiatives to facilitate the smooth adoption of target journey, target processes within the Travel Operations.
• Performance Metrics: Implement and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) related to target journey and target process transformation, providing regular reports to the leadership. Supporting monitoring and evaluation of initiatives implemented.
• Training and Development: Provide train-the-trainer programs to enhance the Contact Center/ Omni-channel skills and knowledge of the Operations teams.
• Customer Experience: Focus on enhancing the overall customer experience through digital and non-digital initiatives, hence ensuring that operations processes meet customer expectations.
• Risk Management: Identify and reduce potential risks associated with operational processes transformation by implementing measures to safeguard operations.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure that customer journey and processes implemented in the Operations department comply with relevant AZ Group, industry regulations and standards.
• Business requirements/Operations projects: Ensure timely and good quality implementation of defined operations projects which are prioritized to be implemented across TRAVEL LoB

What you will bring/ Key Qualifications

• Related service delivery OPS experience in TRAVEL.
• Providing increased effectiveness and credibility in solutions designed.
• Experience deploying technology/digital related solutions.
• Detail oriented, ability to understand and incorporate complex operational and technical constraints.
• Ability to produce clear documentation incorporating multiple stakeholders and integrating process mapping concepts.
• Affinity with numbers and impact quantification converting, for example, abstract time reductions into precise minutes, FTE and monetary values.
• Ability to follow market trends on technology capabilities and creatively incorporate it into use case designs.
• Ability to communicate at both high and detailed levels to adapting to stakeholders' seniority.

What we offer

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.

We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

84703 | Project Management | 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.

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