Entity: Allianz Insurance Singapore

As a member of Allianz Insurance Singapore – Digital Transformation team, focusing on the insurance product implementation and processes, you are responsible to specify, deliver, run and further optimize all aspects of your area of the platform. 

As Product Owner, you define new features and constantly enhance the central platform always considering our joint business goals with a strong focus on business performance. Whenever a decision is needed, you first look at data to validate any assumptions. 

You are an expert in business process optimization, and you constantly thrive to develop yourself including others. This would involve both Front End and Core system delivery for Operations, Finance, Claims and Sales. 

Responsibilities:

Strategy 

• Drive adoption of digital initiatives of new business models. 

• Transform business strategy and process into tactical plans 

Business & Regulation 

• Market research & study the latest technology and business trends in insurance space.   

• Awareness and understanding of the various regulatory requirements of insurance and MAS guidelines

Processes & Transformation 

• Work closely with SMEs to understand and capture Business requirement and identify the scope for digital transformation and Robotic Process Automation opportunities. 

• Influencing operating model by leveraging group’s innovative and cutting-edge digital tools. 

• Continuous improvement of internal processes baselining group KPIs. 

Technology & Delivery 

• Work on release planning to prioritize the features to meet the quarterly and yearly targets. 

• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct 

• Collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk 

• Maximize the business value of the products and be accountable for successful delivery. 

• Responsible for tracking benefits realization and adoption on an ongoing basis 

• Creating and maintaining a prioritized Product Backlog 

• Clearly communicating priorities, sprint goals and acceptance criteria to the agile team 

• Work on user story conception to facilitate clear communication of requirements to the agile team by communicating priorities, sprint goals and acceptance criteria to the agile team 

• Provide input during the Agile ceremonies - sprint planning, review, retrospective demos, refinement sessions 

• Inspect the product progress at the end of every Sprint and accept or reject work done 

• Contribute to continuous improvement with business feedback/vision 

• Remain aware of the daily BAU activities to maintain a grasp on business/process evolution. 

• Work with the production support team on incidents when and where required. 

• Supporting the PM’s by working on UAT plans, including supporting the business in helping to define UAT test cases.  

• Participate in defect triage and prioritization, and addressing any requirements defects, changes or questions that come out of QA testing  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Computer or equivalent required 

• 5 years of Insurance industry work experience in projects/programs with significant change impact and multiple dependencies within and across organizational boundaries. 

• Proven track record in delivering projects successfully from inception to delivery through Agile methodology as a Product Owner with Good planning and forward-thinking skills. 

• Knowledge of project management principles and the ability to apply the principles, tools, and techniques to develop/plan, manage or execute projects or work plans to ensure successful completion 

• Strong stakeholder management ability in handling wide-ranging requests from senior stakeholders. 

• Capable and reliable in meeting tight schedules and deadlines as well as high attention to detail while maintaining clear customer expectations throughout the life cycle of a project/engagement. 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

• Good organizational and documentation skills are essential. 

• Familiarity with project management tools such as JIRA and Confluence  

• Open to occasional global travel as required 

25770 | IT & Tech Engineering | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Singapore | 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.
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