Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

As Senior Project Manager in Commercial Transformation, you'll work collaboratively with other change professionals to realise business benefits through delivery of strategic projects in our portfolio, covering Digital Trading, Mid Markets and Distribution.

In this role you will work within a team of change experts as a trusted partner, driving our business towards achieving our strategic objectives. You will lead project teams, role modelling our values, while partnering with your sponsors, senior stakeholders, and users

You'll have an innovative mind-set and ensure delivery is value and outcome based and aligned to the programme vision. You'll be passionate about change and want to make a difference.

Pay :
Circa £70,000 per year.

Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.

• End-to-end delivery of multiple complex change projects, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Defining and managing project plans, milestones, budgets, and resource needs using Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid methodologies.
• Engaging internal and external stakeholders, including managing third-party relationships and commercial terms.
• Driving urgency, pace, and clarity while maintaining strong communication and engagement across all stakeholder groups
• Monitoring project benefits and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives throughout the lifecycle.
• Managing risks, issues, dependencies, and operational impacts to ensure minimal disruption to business-as-usual.
• Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, supporting project closure, and contributing to continuous improvement in delivery practices
• Ability to solve complex problems collaboratively with multiple stakeholders operating across functions

• Experience with in project and change delivery, having delivered a variety of projects of different types and sizes using both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Strong understanding of change management and implementing people, process and systems change
• Forward thinking, with experience in planning and forecasting and the ability to understand and manage risk proactively
• Demonstrative experience of problem solving and removing impediments
• Excellent communication skills, coupled with exemplary stakeholder management, with the ability to influence at all levels
• A growth mind-set with process improvement ability, focused on continuous improvement
• Ability to manage a budget including forecasting and estimating
• Experience managing suppliers
• Understanding of IT systems development lifecycle
• Leadership, coaching & mentoring experience
• Project, Agile or Change management qualifications would be an advantage but not essential
• Experience with in the Commercial Insurance industry would be beneficial but not essential

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including :

• Flexible buy / sell holiday options
• Hybrid working
• Annual performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• Development days
• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
• Retail discounts
• Volunteering days

Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements.

Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.

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