We are looking for a Product Owner to sit in our global team and support our midcrop and Cytora Submision Ingestion (Sub Hub) implementaions and new deliveries for Allianz Commercial. The role is to be based in our central London office, with global impact. This is a maternity replacement for one year.

Your Team

Reporting to the Global Head of Underwriting Transformation and Product Management, you will join a Transformation team that enables effective change in all Underwriting globally for Allianz Commercial, involving the people, the processes and technological changes, including IT product management.

The team collaborates with and influences diverse stakeholders, such as Global and Regional Line of Business Heads, Operations, Allianz Technology, Global Programs, Global Pricing & CAT, Claims, UWIS, Legal, Compliance, and CBO, to prioritise initiatives, monitor change capacity and steer delivery.

The Impact You Will Have

As Product Owner you will develop our existing global products as well as new ones. You work closely with the Product Manager and other Product Owners and act as the key contact for the vendor and relevant Operating Entities (OEs). You are responsible for evaluating and prioritizing customer and stakeholder needs and defining work packages, so that the product meets the requirements of the relevant market segments. You will support the oversight of the performance of the vendor, participating in performance meetings, and escalating where appropriate. Your ultimate goal as a Product Owner is to maximise the value of a product and support the OE implementations and deliveries working closely with the vendor.

Future Challenges:

• Maintain the product vision while ensuring quality and customer satisfaction.

• Adapt to Agile transformation and its organizational impact.

• Lead critical strategic initiatives and resolve organizational or vendor challenges in collaboration with leadership.

Some of your specific responsibilities could include:

• Organise, moderate and facilitate bi-monthly steering rounds with the vendor and all relevant OEs, including alignment on content with the vendor

• Gather and consolidate feedback from OEs, including vendor performance, user insights and unique/cross-OE journeys, providing analysis and reports for senior stakeholders when needed

• You are responsible for maximizing the customer value of the Product and supporting the delivery of Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and prioritization of backlogs, working with the OE/LOBs

• Project manage and coordinate the team work queue, content requirements and stakeholder needs

• Work closely with the Vendor and Product Manager to create and maintain a product backlog reflecting business value of the work items

• Implement Agile principles and practices within the team, acting as a role model for an Agile mindset and Agile ways of working

• Achieve and maintain a high business impact and customer satisfaction throughout the life cycle of a Product with regards to product content

• Oversee vendor performance, ensuring delivery on commitments

• Participate in QBRs (Quarterly Business Reviews), drive and follow up on action items to completion

• Maintain regular communication with OE representatives (Business owners/Project owners/Delivery leads) to address action items from the SteerCo, ensure effective knodwldge sharing, lessons learned, best practices and discuss unique journey topics

• Collaborate closely with senior leaders and all key stakeholders across all of Allianz

• Understand customer needs, create smart and innovative solution scenarios, write high-quality user stories, and present them to the Agile Team.

• Provide an environment that enables the team to find solutions and embrace ideas that help grow the business.

• Research and analyze the market and users to assist in creating a product vision

• Collaborate with various integration / System Architect/Engineering teams on implementations and manage change requests with OEs and the vendor.

What You’ll Bring to the Role

Quickly available in London and excited to join the team for a one-year contract, you bring at least 5 to 8 years of experience in project management, business analysis or technical solution analysis. You bring:

• Strong expertise in Lean Agile frameworks (eg. Scrum, Kanban) and systems/design thinking

• Proven ability to influence others without authority and collaborate in cross-functional, team-oriented environments

• Experience in managing change initiatives and working in cross-cultural or international settings

• Agile Fundamentals and Product Owner certification ideal (eg. IC Agile, Scrum.org, ScrumAlliance.org)

• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management skills, in a multinational and multicultural context

• Focus on innovation and continuous improvement, with an advanced understanding of data analysis, automation and AI tools is required, with an awareness of ethical AI usage

• The ability to utilize AI tools to support day-to-day tasks, improve efficiency, and contribute to data-driven decision-making is valuable.

• Fluent in English, with any additional languages an advantage

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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At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matters, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.