Head of Application - Life & Health Insurance

Position Summary

In line with Allianz Technology’s aim to be a truly customer and product centric organization, the functional area Applications ensures end-2-end responsibility for all applications in its scope. These applications are clustered in Verticals owning the build, roll-out and maintenance/run.

This regional role will lead and own the build, roll out and the maintenance of the Application by creating business solutions. And will be responsible for full Application life-cycle to achieve strategic transformation goal.

What you do

• Direct the large-scale, region-wide program of full life-cycle including design, development and implementation of Allianz IT platform across countries in scope striving for the strategic transformation goals, collaborating together with the extended project resources i.e. different entities and external vendors as appropriate
• Develop and drive the implementation road-map that will be jointly created by working with countries, regional and global leads, key functional leads, across countries, multiple AZ organizations and delivery partners
• Render and convey company strategy, e.g. Allianz Customer Model, application modernization etc. into design and implementation strategies for the broad project team to ensure necessary outcomes are achieved in alignment with strategic outlook and resources optimization
• Ensure effective senior stakeholder engagement and communication. Furnish regular reporting in several senior steering forums that include global leadership, regional leadership and local Steering committees in the OEs
• Undertake and develop an industrialized approach throughout the region and in alignment with global model to standardize on-boarding, solution and delivery of IT applications to maximize economies of skill and scale. Enable initiatives and practices to provide foreseeable and repeatable outcomes
• Ensure service management delivery, fulfillment of service levels and assurance aspects with continuous improvement and
and adherence to AZ technology group entities 
• Ensure financial governance for the applications in scope of responsibility

What you bring

• Degree in information technology or other comparable technical qualification
• Must have worked in a matrix organization, with a strong track record of meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• 15+ years of relevant experience from multi-national organizations. The ideal candidate would have experience in application development, maintenance space and running production support teams, ideally from Life and Health insurance company, or, a Shared Services/Service Provider organization.
• Strong experience in managing project financials, demand management, change management, managing distributed teams, KPI tracking, and reporting alignment within a complex matrix organization would be advantageous.
• Goal-oriented self-starter with the ability to work independently and as part of a team. Experienced in managing multi-cultural and geographical dispersed teams through both direct and influence management.
• Customer-centric mind set; transparent & fact-based collaboration.

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.

Note: Diversity of minds is an integral part of Allianz’ company culture. One means to achieve diverse teams is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company encourages its employees to have motivation in gaining varied skills from different positions and to collect experiences from across Allianz Group.