Senior Change Lead (Business Analysis)

Allianz; Guildford; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible buy/sell holiday options

Hybrid working

Annual performance related bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Development days

Discount on insurance products

Retail discounts

Volunteering days

Job summary

Allianz in Guildford is seeking a senior leader to steer Business Analysis leadership within the Commercial Practice. You will develop our people, raise the profession and drive analysis across complex initiatives that shape strategic outcomes for customers and colleagues.

Based in Guildford with hybrid work, you will lead, coach and empower Business Analysts, partner with Product and Delivery leads, and ensure value-driven delivery through ideation, discovery and delivery phases.

Qualifications

• A senior BA/leadership role shaping complex business and technology change.
• Proven experience leading people and delivering across ideation, triage, discovery and delivery.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication across business, product and technology audiences.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery and how BA supports product and transformation.
• Experience in financial services or regulated environments is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Shape and grow a high-performing Business Analysis community, developing capability, setting standards and ensuring our people are deployed to the areas where they can create the greatest value.
• Lead, coach and develop Business Analysts, creating an engaged, collaborative and inclusive environment where people can thrive and build successful careers.
• Be accountable for people management activities including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, coaching, talent development and succession planning.
• Spend a significant proportion of your time delivering Business Analysis in a Lead Business Analyst capacity.
• Provide Business Analysis leadership across Ideation, Triage, Discovery and Delivery, helping to frame complex business problems, shape strategic initiatives and ensure informed investment decisions.
• Guide the analysis of complex and strategic opportunities, ensuring decisions are supported by evidence, options, trade-offs, value, risk and delivery considerations before commitments are made.
• Provide technical leadership, assurance and coaching to Business Analysts, promoting consistent standards and proportionate approaches whilst enabling teams to work autonomously and effectively.
• Partner with Product Managers, Product Owners, Delivery Leads, Architects and business stakeholders to shape initiatives, manage analysis demand and ensure change delivers against strategic objectives and key business outcomes.
• Champion Business Analysis excellence by promoting best practice, supporting Communities of Practice and driving continuous improvement across the profession.
• Foster a high-performance culture, encouraging a growth mindset, collaboration and a focus on delivering meaningful business value.
• Role model the Allianz values - Be Brave, With Heart, Inspire Trust and Everyone Counts - and inspire others to embrace Agile and collaborative ways of working.

Skills

Leadership & coaching

Business Analysis expertise

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Strategic thinking

Regulated environment experience

Education

BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis

Job description

This is a great opportunity to combine people leadership, Business Analysis leadership and transformational change delivery. As a member of the Commercial Business Analysis Practice Leadership Team, you'll play a key role in developing our people, strengthening our profession and leading analysis across some of our most complex and strategically important initiatives.

Working closely with business and technology stakeholders, you'll help shape ideas before investment decisions are made, ensuring business needs, risks, opportunities and delivery implications are understood so that change delivers meaningful outcomes for our customers, colleagues and business.

This role is based in our Guildford office. This is a hybrid role with the expectation that you will attend the office between 2 and 16 days per month depending on business needs

Salary

Circa £75,000.00 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

• Shape and grow a high-performing Business Analysis community, developing capability, setting standards and ensuring our people are deployed to the areas where they can create the greatest value.
• lead, coach and develop Business Analysts, creating an engaged, collaborative and inclusive environment where people can thrive and build successful careers.
• Be accountable for people management activities including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, coaching, talent development and succession planning.
• Spend a significant proportion of your time delivering Business Analysis in a Lead Business Analyst capacity.
• Provide Business Analysis leadership across Ideation, Triage, Discovery and Delivery, helping to frame complex business problems, shape strategic initiatives and ensure informed investment decisions.
• Guide the analysis of complex and strategic opportunities, ensuring decisions are supported by evidence, options, trade-offs, value, risk and delivery considerations before commitments are made.
• Provide technical leadership, assurance and coaching to Business Analysts, promoting consistent standards and proportionate approaches whilst enabling teams to work autonomously and effectively.
• Partner with Product Managers, Product Owners, Delivery Leads, Architects and business stakeholders to shape initiatives, manage analysis demand and ensure change delivers against strategic objectives and key business outcomes.
• Champion Business Analysis excellence by promoting best practice, supporting Communities of Practice and driving continuous improvement across the profession.
• Foster a high-performance culture, encouraging a growth mindset, collaboration and a focus on delivering meaningful business value.
• Role model the Allianz values - Be Brave, With Heart, Inspire Trust and Everyone Counts - and inspire others to embrace Agile and collaborative ways of working.

Essential Skills

• An acknowledged expert in Business Analysis, passionate about the Business Analyst Role, who enjoys developing people just as much as delivering change.
• Highly Developed Business Analysis expertise and a track record of leading complex business and technology change.
• Experience shaping initiatives through early lifecycle activities such as ideation, triage, discovery, business case development and investment decisions.
• Proven people leadership, coaching and capability development experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to adapt your approach for business, product and technology audiences.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and constructively challenging assumptions, scope and priorities.
• Excellent understanding of Agile delivery and the role Business Analysis plays across product and transformation environments.
• The ability to balance strategic thinking with hands‑on analysis when complexity demands it.
• Ideally, experience within Financial Services, Commercial Insurance or another regulated environment.

Desirable Skills

• Ideally, experience within Commercial Insurance
• Experience in General Insurance, Financial Services or another regulated environment.
• BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis
• Evidence of continuing professional development and relevant qualifications in Business Analysis, Change Management or Agile delivery would be advantageous.
• Responsible Artificial Intelligence usage

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.

Inclusive Support & Accessibility

At Allianz, we are committed to fostering building an inclusive, accessible workplace where everyone can thrive. As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates and offer tailored adjustments throughout the recruitment process and in the workplace, whether that’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, flexible working arrangements, mentoring or coaching. We want to encourage candidates to speak with us about any adjustments they may need. We’re here to support you.

If you have a disability or long‑term health condition and meet the essential criteria, you can choose to be considered through our Offer an Interview Scheme.

Closing Date October 28th 2026

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

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