Senior Strategic Transformation Project Manager

Allianz UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Generous bonus scheme

Pension

Job summary

Allianz Commercial in London is seeking a senior transformation leader to drive the target IT landscape underpinning the delegated authority value chain, scaling systems, data flows and processes across regions.

You will own the transformation programme end-to-end, write requirements, coordinate with IT and business stakeholders, manage risks, milestones and adoption, and ensure benefits realisation across global teams.

Qualifications

• Leading end-to-end IT-enabled transformation programmes, ideally within insurance, delegated authority,
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Responsibilities

• Partner with regional Portfolio Solutions teams, IT, and business stakeholders to implement the target IT landscape for Portfolio Solutions, including migration to AI-enabled applications.

Skills

Leading IT-enabled transformation

Product owner / manager experience

Data migration / systems integration

Programme governance (RAID)

Organisational change adoption

Automation / STP initiatives

Stakeholder management

AI/ML for processes

Job description

The Team

The Portfolio Solutions Transformation team sits within Global UW Transformation & IT Product Management at Allianz Commercial, part of the Chief Underwriting Office. Portfolio Solutions is Allianz Commercial's central unit for delegated authority and panels - a fast-growing distribution channel that is central to the company's growth strategy. Our team is dedicated to accelerating the strategic IT initiative that underpins the end-to-end delegated authority value chain, ensuring the systems, data flows, and processes that support Portfolio Solutions are fit to scale with the business. Working across international teams, we bring structured IT product, project management and change management discipline to deliver real transformation - shaping strategies that support our Operating Entities and Lines of Business to deliver innovative, sustainable solutions.

The Impact You Will Have

This is a senior role created to make transformation a dedicated priority - not an add-on to already-stretched enablement and operational capacity. You will drive delivery of the target IT landscape underpinning the end-to-end delegated authority value chain, directly shaping how Portfolio Solutions scales for the future. Your impact will include:

• Scaling the IT and process landscape in line with rapid Portfolio Solutions growth
• Leading the migration of legacy systems and data to AI-enabled applications, while carefully managing risk
• Embedding sustainable adoption of new tools and ways of working across regional teams
• Balancing global standardisation with local market needs to ensure solutions work everywhere
• Development and tracking of business cases and monitoring of financials and benefit realisation

This is an opportunity to leave a lasting mark on one of Allianz Commercial's most strategically important growth areas.

Some of your specific responsibilities could include:

Target State Design & Implementation

• Partner with regional Portfolio Solutions teams, IT, and business stakeholders to implement the target IT landscape for Portfolio Solutions, including migration to AI-enabled applications.
• Assess the current systems landscape against the target state, identifying capability gaps, technical debt, and integration risks across the deal-to-settlement flow.

Transformation Roadmap & Delivery Ownership

• Build and maintain a prioritised transformation roadmap, sequencing system changes, data migrations, and process re-engineering initiatives against business growth milestones.
• Act as business owner for IT transformation initiatives — writing requirements, coordinating with IT/engineering delivery teams, and tracking milestones through to go-live.

Project Management

• Plan and run the transformation programme end-to-end — defining scope, workstreams, resourcing, and timelines; managing budgets where applicable.
• Apply structured project management disciplines (e.g., RAID logs, milestone tracking, steering committee governance) to keep delivery on track across parallel workstreams.
• Development and tracking of business cases

Risk Oversight, Escalation & Status Reporting

• Own end-to-end oversight of delivery risk for the target IT solution and data migration from legacy to new tools, proactively flagging risks with clear mitigation plans.
• Own regular status reporting to senior stakeholders and governance forums — tracking progress, RAG-rating workstreams, and surfacing risks and decisions needed.
• Lead detailed scoping of transformation and migration workstreams with regional and IT teams, maintaining a live dependency map across systems, data, and teams.
• Lead the people side of transformation — stakeholder engagement, communications, training
• Ensure benefit realization and adoption support, and readiness assessments to embed lasting change. monitoring effectively implemented and reported

Data & Automation

• Accelerate improvements in bordereaux data quality, straight-through processing, and automation opportunities across the value chain (e.g., API-driven data flows, reduction of manual reconciliation)

What You’ll Bring to the Role

• Leading end-to-end IT-enabled transformation programmes, ideally within insurance, delegated authority,
• Previous experience as business or product owner / manager
• Managing data migration, systems integration, or platform modernisation initiatives
• Running structured project/programme governance (RAID logs, milestone tracking, steering committees, business case development and monitoring)
• Leading organisational change and adoption for technology-enabled initiatives
• Driving automation/STP initiatives (e.g., API-driven data flows, reduction of manual reconciliation)
• Experience working with and communicating with senior and exec stakeholders to drive decisions
• Strong negotiation, collaboration and communication skills
• Ideally working previously in a role bridging business and technology or delivery teams
• Experience in applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to improve business processes and decision-making is highly beneficial.

What’s in it for you?

Let’s care about everything that makes you, you

We are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong.We offer a hybrid working model, which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working.Please feel free to discuss flexible working arrangements with us.

Let’s care for your financial wellbeing

We believe in rewarding performance with a great compensation and benefits package (details vary by location), including a generous bonus scheme and pension.

Let’s care for your opportunities to progress

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.

Let’s care for life’s twists and turns

From our support for flexible working, health and wellbeing (including private healthcare and generous parental leave benefits), to helping people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach. We've got your back. – Please do not include this paragraph for South Africa

Let’s care for our society and our planet

With opportunities to be engaged in shaping a future that is safe, inclusive and sustainable, we care for the tomorrows of our people, our industry and our clients.

Care to join us?

Allianz Commercial is the center of expertise of Allianz Group, insuring mid-sized businesses, large enterprises, and special risks. Our customers include top consumer brands, financial institutions, industry leaders, the global aviation and shipping industries, as well as family-owned and medium-enterprises. We also cover unique risks such as offshore wind farms, infrastructure projects and film productions. Our clients trust us to provide a wide range of traditional and alternative risk transfer solutions, outstanding risk consulting and multinational services, and seamless claims handling. Allianz Commercial helps customers to prepare for what's ahead.

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.

Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.

Having different strengths, experiences, perspectives and approaches is an integral part of Allianz's company culture. One means to achieve this is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company expects from its employees a general openness and a high motivation to regularly change positions and collect experiences across Allianz Group.

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