Overall Objectives of Job:

We are seeking an experienced professional to serve as the central governance and coordination function for the BMP transformation program across Belgium and the Netherlands. Reporting to the Head of Operations & Strategy, ensures structured, aligned delivery across all BMP initiatives — driving program governance and controlling, maintaining a single portfolio overview, and enforcing standardized processes, tools, and reporting. It supports budget tracking, KPI monitoring, and risk and issue management with timely escalation; manages stakeholders across Allianz Technology Benelux and the global BMP program; and coordinates external partners and vendors. It also champions AI-augmented, data-driven ways of working to sharpen reporting and decision-making.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field; a project/program management certification is preferred.
• 8–10 years of overall experience in project, program, or portfolio management, with 4–6 years in a project governance or program governance/controlling role within large-scale transformation programs.
• Proven experience establishing and running program governance, portfolio reporting, and standardized project governance processes, tools, and templates across multiple workstreams or geographies.
• Strong command of budget tracking, financial controlling, KPI monitoring, and risk and issue management, with a track record of transparent and timely escalation.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience bridging multiple departments and aligning local delivery with a global program, including coordination of external partners and vendors.
• Proficiency with project governance and portfolio management tooling (e.g. MS Project, Planview, Clarity, Jira) and advanced reporting and dashboarding (e.g. Power BI).
• Familiarity with AI-enabled and GenAI-augmented ways of working — using AI tools for automated reporting, portfolio analytics, and data-driven decision-making — with awareness of responsible-AI and data-governance practices.
• Experience working in international, matrixed environments, ideally within financial services or insurance; exposure to the Benelux region is an advantage.

Role & Responsibilities

• Drive program governance and controlling across all BMP-related initiatives, ensuring structured delivery and alignment with the global BMP program.
• Maintain a comprehensive portfolio overview of all BMP activities, tracking status, milestones, dependencies, and interdependencies across Belgium and the Netherlands.
• Establish and maintain standardized processes, tools, templates, and reporting to ensure consistency and quality across all initiatives.
• Support budget tracking and financial controlling, monitoring spend against plan and flagging variances early.
• Define and monitor KPIs and program metrics, providing transparent, data-driven status reporting to leadership and the global program.
• Lead risk and issue management — maintaining logs, driving mitigation actions, and ensuring timely escalation where needed.
• Act as a central point for stakeholder management, bridging the different departments within Allianz Technology Benelux and aligning with the global BMP program.
• Coordinate with external partners and vendors to ensure smooth, on-time delivery of transformation activities.
• Prepare and facilitate steering committees, governance forums, and program reviews, capturing decisions and tracking follow-up actions.
• Apply AI-enabled and GenAI tools to automate reporting, surface portfolio insights, and strengthen data-driven decision-making across the program.

Key Result Areas

• Structured, on-track delivery of BMP initiatives against agreed governance, milestones, and quality standards.
• Accurate, timely portfolio reporting that provides a single, reliable source of truth for all BMP activities.
• Effective budget tracking and KPI monitoring, with transparent and actionable insights for leadership.
• Proactive risk and issue management — early identification and timely escalation, with minimal unmanaged surprises.
• Strong stakeholder alignment across Allianz Technology Benelux, the global BMP program, and external partners and vendors.
• Consistent adoption of standardized PROJECT GOVERANCE processes, tools, and reporting across all initiatives.
• Measurable efficiency gains from AI-augmented reporting and data-driven decision-making.