Product Manager

ALLIANZ GLOBAL CORPORATE & SPECIALTY SE Singapore Branch; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global insurance provider in Singapore is seeking a committed and visionary Product Manager to oversee the Policy Administration applications. You will manage product vision and backlog, ensuring alignment with business needs while fostering an agile environment. The ideal candidate has significant experience in product ownership and agile delivery, and is passionate about enhancing customer experience and product value.

Benefits

Generous bonus scheme

Pension plan

Health and wellbeing support

Career development programs

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Product Ownership, Agile delivery, or Project Management.
• Experience in cross-cultural and international teams.
• Proficiency in Agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the product vision and roadmap.
• Manage and maintain the product backlog.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into actionable work.

Skills

Strong business acumen

Customer experience focus

Influencing skills

Systems thinking

Data analysis

Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence

Education

Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience

Master’s degree with 3+ years of experience

Certification in Agile Fundamentals and Product Ownership

Job description

Job Purpose/Role

We are seeking a committed and visionary Product Manager to lead the delivery of our Policy Administration applications in Asia, based in Singapore. This role is embedded in an agile environment, where you will act as the key link between business needs and delivery execution. The Policy Administration applications supports multiple functional areas and are continuously evolving to meet market demands. As Product Manager, you will be responsible for the development and communication of the Product Vision, managing and maintaining the product backlog, evaluating, translating, and prioritizing stakeholder requirements into actionable work packages. Your role is pivotal in shaping the product to meet customer needs and business objectives, with the ultimate goal of maximizing product value across relevant market segments.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the product vision and roadmap based on business needs and customer feedback.
• Manage and maintain the product backlog, ensuring clarity, prioritization, and alignment with business value.
• Define and refine Minimum Viable Product (MVP) scope and ensure delivery of high-impact increments.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into actionable Demands/EPICs, ensuring they are well-defined, testable, and ready for PI planning.
• Prioritize backlog items based on stakeholder objectives, customer value, and technical feasibility in collaboration with Enterprise and System Architects.
• Act as the primary contact for business stakeholders, ensuring continuous alignment and feedback loops.
• Coordinate cross-functional input and manage expectations across business domains.
• Represent customer needs and market insights in backlog prioritization and product decisions.
• Collaborate closely with other Product Owners and senior leaders to ensure cross-team alignment and shared goals.
• Champion agile principles and practices within the team and broader organization, acting as a role model for agile values and behaviors.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and learning.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and Communities of Practice (CoP).
• Support the team in adopting agile tools and processes effectively.
• Demonstrate servant leadership by enabling the team to find solutions and innovate.
• Maintain a customer-centric mindset and encourage experimentation and feedback.
• Drive personal and team development through curiosity and openness to change.
• Ensure compliance with internal standards and external regulations.
• Support data governance and documentation where applicable.
• Lead the planning and oversight of the OPUS run, change and enhancement budget, including the creation, documentation, and maintenance of EPICs (business cases and feature narratives) in alignment with AGCS funding and governance processes.
• Steer the AQUA project, driving the continuous enhancement, adoption, and regional scalability of the MidCorp broker portal to improve underwriting efficiency, speed to market, and customer experience.
• BAO tasks: user access review, BAO sign off.

Key Experience / Requirements / Skills

Experience & Education

• Proven experience in Product Ownership, Agile delivery, or Project Management, ideally within a regulated environment.
• Strong background in stakeholder management, business analysis, or technical solution design.
• Experience working in cross-cultural and international teams, with a solid understanding of change management principles.
• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, Master’s degree with 3+ years, or equivalent professional experience (8+ years without a degree).
• Certification in Agile Fundamentals and Product Ownership (e.g., ICAgile, Scrum.org, Scrum Alliance).

Skills & Competencies

• Strong business acumen with the ability to align product decisions to strategic goals and market opportunities.
• Strong focus on customer experience and value delivery through iterative design and feedback.
• Strong influencing skills without formal authority; able to navigate and resolve conflicting priorities.
• Deep understanding of systems thinking, design thinking, and lean‑agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
• Comfortable working with data and KPIs to inform product decisions and measure impact.
• Hands‑on experience with Atlassian tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Ability to write clear, structured documentation and user stories.
• Collaborative, team‑oriented mindset with a focus on innovation and continuous improvement.
• Intermediate proficiency in AI‑driven tools and insights, with the ability to integrate them into product decisions and team workflows.

Language & Communication

• Fluent in English; fluency in any other language is a plus.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

We’re looking for someone who is curious, collaborative, and confident in navigating complexity—someone who thrives in a dynamic environment and brings energy, clarity, and purpose to their team.

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.

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Allianz is an equal opportunity employer, and therefore welcomes applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic. Diversity of thinking is an important part of our culture.

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