Senior Project Manager - Commercial Change

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Cluster - Senior Associate
Agility is a major part of our ambition here at Allianz with all of our Communities of Practice working towards transforming our organisation. You could be part of a thriving community of professionals, focused on quality and delivery. A chance to make new connections, enjoy new friendships and work together to achieve shared goals. We've embraced supreme flexibility, offering hybrid-working arrangements, working from home combined with time in our Guildford office.
About the Role:
As a Senior Project Manager in Commercial Change, the purpose of your role will be to realise business benefits though the delivery of complex projects or programmes in our Commercial Change portfolio. You will lead the project/programme team, role modelling our values, while partnering with your sponsors and senior stakeholders. You will have an agile mind-set and be an expert in your field, coaching and guiding colleagues to ensure delivery is value and outcome based. We'll expect you to lead by example, live and practice agile values and principles while putting our customers and value delivery at the heart of all you do. You will also contribute to the Commercial Change portfolio strategy and development of the PM community while mentoring members of the profession.
About You:
Skills and Experience:
Experience within project and change delivery, having delivered a variety of projects of different types and sizes using both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
Excellent understanding of change management and implementing people, process and systems change
Act as a leader and role model fostering excellent team spirit in the team providing vision and purpose for the delivery and aligning/defining roles and responsibilities if needed
Being forward thinking with experience in planning and forecasting and the ability to understand and manage risk proactively.
Excellent financial planning and budget management skills, including business cases
Demonstrative experience of problem solving and removing impediments
Exemplary stakeholder management and the ability to effectively manage stakeholders up to and including board (C-suite level)
Have a growth mind-set with process improvement ability, focused on continuous improvement
Project, Agile or Change management qualifications would be an advantage but not essential
Experience managing suppliers
Understanding of IT systems development lifecycle
What We Will Offer You:
You'll be based from our Guildford office, hybrid working with the expectation of being in the office once a week.
Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from, including, retail discounts, discounted insurance cover and our newly launched ElectriX car purchase scheme, 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:
30 days holiday & bank holidays
Annual company and performance related bonus
Private health cover
Car Allowance
Generous pension contributions and Life Cover up to 4 x salary
Excellent career development and training
Our Ways of Working
Do you need some 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.
Our Purpose and Values
We secure your future Be Brave | With Heart | Everyone Counts | Inspiring Trust
Our purpose and values are more than just words on a website - they are the why and how of Allianz. They influence everything we do and guide us how to do it. Created by our people, for our people, they shape our culture, bring us together, and inspire us to be the best. Building an inclusive culture for us all to succeed.
Diversity & Inclusion
At Allianz, we value diversity and inclusion and back this up with our accreditations. Allianz is EDGE certified for gender inclusion, members of the Women in Finance Charter, a Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion members, signatories of Business in the Community's Race at Work Charter, and an Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.We recognise the strength of neurodiversity in the workplace, and the far-reaching benefits of embracing a spectrum of thinking styles and innovative capabilities. We proudly welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, and can offer tailored adjustments to remove barriers and set you up for success in your career.We encourage our people to advocate for what they need, we listen, and we act - this could include providing assistive technology, ergonomic specialist equipment, mentoring and coaching, or flexibility in the way you work, among a wide range other adjustments. Join us - Let's Care for Tomorrow.
44711 | Project Management | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz UK | Full-Time | Permanent
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