Agile Transformation Manager

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Whether it’s aircraft, international business, offshore wind parks or film productions, Allianz Commercial has an extensive range of risks covered when it comes to protecting businesses.

We are looking for a Agile Transformation Manager to be based in Munich.
 
Your Team 

We are a small team of Agile Coaches operating and supporting our global delivery teams and business on key topics around agile IT transformation. Our team is committed to Agile values and ways of working, and we prioritize leadership and innovation to prepare for future challenges. As a team, we coach and mentor each other to identify organizational impediments and enable the organization to rapidly respond to upcoming challenges with innovative solutions. We maintain a working knowledge of current Agile best practices and frameworks to guide our Agile coaching cohort and implement improvement processes across the enterprise.

The Impact You Will Have 

You will be responsible for coaching, mentoring and demonstrating our Agile values such as servant leadership, an Agile mindset, and Agile ways of working to all company employees from senior to junior. You will develop and maintain relationships with delivery stakeholders at all levels, so that you are looped in to provide guidance when new programs and initiatives are being considered. You will also actively coach and mentor diverse groups to define and implement improvement processes across our Agile delivery teams and enterprise. 

In this way, you will help grow the organization's ability to rapidly respond to upcoming challenges and provide the environment for teams to find innovative solutions and embrace ideas that help grow our business.

Some of your specific responsibilities could include:

• Developing existing processes and practices to become more Agile, ensuring buy-in and adoption from executive leaders
• Training, mentoring, and coaching individuals, Agile teams and executive leaders, creating a culture of collaboration and learning using Agile values, drawing the focus on customer outcomes
• Understanding how compliance requirements for our industry impact our day-to-day operating methods for Agile teams and supporting teams which need help to improve
• Facilitating communities of practice and contribute relevant expertise
• Acting as an example of Servant Leadership by coaching and mentoring other executives to support their teams, while granting teams decision-making authority
• Providing an environment to enable Agile teams and our coaching community to innovate to grow our business
• Offering hands-on assistance to Agile teams for collating business metrics, KPI reporting and our Jira best-practices
• Developing and maintaining an understanding of the Allianz common scaling frameworks and guiding others to configure them to organizational needs
• Evangelizing the coaching profession and encouraging the inclusion of Agile coaches where warranted
• Working in an agile environment and demonstrating a growth mindset through personal and professional development
• Achieving a high business impact and customer satisfaction through leading empowered teams

What You’ll Bring to the Role

With a solid working experience in an Agile delivery and enterprise set-up, ideally in a global financial services company, you interact with stakeholders from our Agile delivery teams including Business Owners:  

• You have an Agile certification (eg. from IC Agile, Scrum.org, ScrumAlliance.org or SAFe)
• At least five years’ experience in Scrum Master / Agile Coach / Agile Delivery for a team that was diligently applying Agile/ Scrum principles, practices, and theory 
• Experience of Agile delivery within a compliance driven environment
• Hands-on experience using Jira and Confluence to support high quality audit trails and documentation
• Vast experience scaling in Lean Agile Practices and leading virtual teams
• Solid experience as a Servant Leader for a large cross-functional team
• You are skilled in conflict resolution, resolving complex issues and providing constructive feedback 
• You are proactive and able to drive topics forward with excellent communication and presentation skills 
• Positive attitude paired with a strong sense of curiosity and a customer-centric attitude
• Strong leadership, innovative thinking, change management
• Excellent English fluency, both written and verbal, additional languages especially German would be a plus
   

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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 Allianz Group brand serving the world’s largest consumer brands and major industry players through to family-owned enterprises forming the backbone of nations’ economies. We bring together the corporate multinational business of Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty and the commercial business of national Allianz Property & Casualty entities and provide both traditional and alternative risk transfer solutions, outstanding risk consulting and Multinational services as well as seamless claims handling.  

As a key strategic player in the Allianz Group network, Allianz Commercial is present in over 200 countries and in 2022 generated more than €19 billion gross premium. 

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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. 

People with disabilities:
We want to give all our candidates the best opportunity to succeed.  If you need any adjustments to be made during the application and selection process, please email agcsglobalcareers@allianz.com

Recruitment Agencies: 
Allianz Commercial has an in-house recruitment team, which focuses on sourcing great candidates directly.  Allianz Commercial does not accept unsolicited resumes from agency or search firm recruiters.  Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired.  When we do use agencies, we have a PSL in place, so please do not contact managers directly.

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