IT Project Manager

Allianz plc

The Opportunity

As the trusted insurance partner to over 700,000 customers across the island of Ireland, Allianz plc has built a local and global brand based on trust, integrity, and outstanding customer service for over one hundred years.

We are recruiting for an experienced IT Project Manager, reporting to the IT Planning and Governance manager.  You will complement the IT function and engage with our Product team, Business Owners and Allianz Technology.  Allianz Ireland’s IT services are provided and managed by Allianz Technology. 

In this role, you will be responsible for planning, executing, and finalising projects according to strict deadlines and within budget. This includes acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of team members; engaging with Allianz Technology and third-party contractors or consultants to deliver projects according to plan. The IT Project Manager will also define the project's objectives and oversee quality control throughout its life cycle.

This is a hybrid working role; with a minimum of one day per week working from Allianz’s office in Elmpark, Dublin 4.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the IT projects lifecycle – from ideation, business requirement, solution assessment, vendor appraisal, procurement, design, build, test, commission and operate
• Deliver and manage large scale transformation programmes and projects on time, cost and quality targets within appropriate governance frameworks
• Support the project identification, sizing and prioritisation process to ensure projects are correctly scoped and with clear and measurable commercial benefits
• Develop and review cost benefit analyses ensuring sufficient resources to deliver on project priorities
• Identify and coordinate project members; lead these cross-functional project teams to develop program approach, plans, timeline and budget
• Leading project risks, issues, dependencies, and interfaces to ensure potential problems are identified and controlled
• Establishing Project Governance ensuring timely status reporting to all stakeholders and IT PMO
• Owning the development and implementation of benefits realisation strategies and processes to ensure that expected business benefits are assigned, measured, and tracked
• Ensuring the effectiveness and efficiency of the team, including delivery
• Manage project delivery against schedule, budget, and quality
• Create strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders across the business, Product Management, Risk Management, IT Security, Compliance and Allianz Technology
• Assess capability and availability of required Allianz Technology IT skills and resources to meet Business demand
• Communicate and collaborate across many teams within the company and external providers
• Identify Information Risks arising in IT Projects and ensure hand-over into Information Risk Management

Experience

• A relevant 3rd level qualification, with 5+years level experience in Project Management
• Project Management qualification preferred e.g., Prince, PMP
• Experience in delivery of large scale IT strategic and transformation projects using Agile methodology
• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies
• Strong knowledge of IT lifecycle, including familiarity with concepts, practices and procedures
• Experience of dealing with key stakeholders and suppliers
• Experience operating within an outsourcing model
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to interpret the audience and communicate accordingly
• Ability to collaborate and work effectively with cross functional teams, including business teams and outsourcing partners
• Strong organisational, analytical and problem solving skills; including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills

Desirable Experience

• A broad experience across a variety of architecture domains (application, data, integration, or infrastructure)
• Experience preparing and presenting to senior business and IT management teams
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, including O365 Teams and Sharepoint
• Experience in Insurance / Financial services or other heavily regulated environments

56249 | Project Management | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Ireland | 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. 
We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.
Great to have you on board. Let's care for tomorrow.