Underwriting Enablement Lead - Liability (m/f/d)

Allianz UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Allianz Commercial invites an experienced professional to join as Underwriting Enablement Lead in London. You will bridge underwriting teams with central functions, translating business requirements into practical tools and processes that improve underwriting performance and portfolio steering across a global Liability function.

You will lead strategic initiatives in underwriting transformation, data enablement, and AI adoption, partnering with regional and global stakeholders to drive

Qualifications

• 5+ years in underwriting operations or related fields.
• Experience in Liability insurance preferred.
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end transformation.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication.

Responsibilities

• Design and enhance portfolio management tools and reporting.
• Translate requirements into scalable solutions for visibility.
• Support regional/global portfolio reviews with insights.
• Improve data quality and usability with cross-team collaboration.
• Lead underwriting transformation programs within Liability.
• Identify AI, automation opportunities to improve outcomes.
• Represent regional needs in global initiatives.
• Manage a pipeline of IT and process improvement requests.

Skills

Underwriting operations

Portfolio management

Business analysis

Transformation leadership

Stakeholder management

AI adoption experience

Data analytics

Communication skills

Job description

Description

Join Allianz Commercial as an Underwriting Enablement Lead, driving technical excellence, underwriting transformation, and portfolio management capability across our global Liability underwriting function. Based in London, Munich, or Frankfurt - and open to other Allianz Commercial locations in Europe for internal candidates - this is a senior individual contributor role that sits at the heart of how Allianz Commercial evolves its underwriting operations. You will serve as the bridge between underwriting teams and central functions, translating business requirements into practical tools, processes, and solutions that improve underwriting performance and portfolio steering. You will lead strategic initiatives spanning underwriting transformation, data enablement, AI adoption, and operating model evolution - working with a broad and senior stakeholder landscape across a truly global organization.

Some of your specific responsibilities could include:

• Design and enhance portfolio management tools, reporting frameworks, and analytical capabilities that support active portfolio steering across the global Liability underwriting function
• Translate underwriting business requirements into scalable portfolio management solutions that improve visibility, decision-making, and performance management
• Support regional and global portfolio reviews through the provision of meaningful management information and actionable insights
• Lead initiatives to improve underwriting data quality, accessibility, and usability; partner with data, technology, and business teams to develop solutions that support portfolio management and underwriting decision-making
• Lead underwriting transformation initiatives across Liability, acting as the primary underwriting representative within strategic change programmes
• Define business requirements, oversee implementation activities, and ensure delivery aligns with underwriting objectives — driving simplification, standardization, and operational excellence across underwriting processes
• Identify and implement opportunities to leverage AI, automation, and emerging technologies within underwriting; drive innovation initiatives that improve underwriting quality, efficiency, and portfolio outcomes
• Represent regional underwriting requirements within global initiatives; support the evolution of the operating model by ensuring regional underwriting needs are understood and incorporated into future solutions
• Build strong stakeholder relationships across underwriting, data, technology, and central functions, ensuring effective change adoption across the underwriting community
• Manage and prioritize a pipeline of systems, IT, and process improvement requests, acting as a self-sufficient project lead who can be delegated to with confidence and deliver results with minimal oversight

What You’ll Bring to the Role

• 5+ years' experience in underwriting operations, portfolio management, business analysis, transformation, or strategy;
• A background in or strong familiarity with Liability insurance is preferred;
• Proven ability to lead business change and transformation initiatives end-to-end - from requirements definition through to implementation and adoption - across complex, global organizations;
• Strong project management skills and an autonomous working style - you are comfortable owning multiple workstreams simultaneously, managing competing priorities, and delivering outcomes;
• Experience managing a broad and senior stakeholder landscape, including the ability to represent underwriting requirements within global programmes and influence across organizational boundaries;
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret portfolio data, identify trends, and translate findings into clear, actionable insights for underwriting leadership;
• A working knowledge of data, analytics, and AI-enabled business solutions - you understand how these technologies can be applied to improve underwriting processes and are motivated to drive their adoption;
• Experience in applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to improve business processes and decision-making is highly beneficial.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to produce clear business requirements, stakeholder updates, and executive-level presentations;
• A collaborative, pragmatic approach - you are energized by working closely with underwriters and functional teams, and you take pride in delivering solutions that make a real difference to how the business operates.

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.

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.

Join us.

Let's care for tomorrow.

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