As a Project Manager, you will lead and oversee strategic projects from inception to completion. Responsibilities include planning, executing and closing projects, managing resources, coordinating cross-functional teams and ensuring timely delivery within the budget. Strong communication and organizational skills are essential for effective stakeholder engagement and project success.
What You Do
- Acts as a focal point for all new initiatives and leads/opportunities/prospects, being the pivotal fulcrum between project management team, internal parties (mainly but not limited to Operations, IT, Legal, Finance) and external parties.
- Coordinates and executes business case / plan analysis, risk and technical, operational and economical feasibility assessment
- Clearly understands the project objectives, challenges, assumptions and ensures the projects are on scope, time and cost
- Develops the statement / scope of work, budget, project plan and schedule and communicate them effectively
- Plans resource requirements and ensures optimum use of shared resources, as per project plan.
- Leads projects in a transparent and productive way, applying standard project management practices and company standards.
- Effectively communicates project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion. This includes regular team updates on project execution, such as project status meetings, monthly project reviews, steering committees and other collaboration opportunities, both internal and external.
- Integrate best practices, project standards, procedures, and quality objectives, including metrics for assessing progress into projects and provide feedback for improvement.
- Manages handoff between Projects and the end-users, ensuring smooth implementation and troubleshooting with least operational downtime.
- Ensures proactive risk analysis and assessment of impact leading to mitigation actions
- Is accountable for deliverables within the overall program, and can prepare strong recommendation for Senior Management
- Facilitates change management process within the business to ensure project benefits are ascertained.
- Continuous support to clients during the initial run phase navigating the impact and make certain a smooth transition achieving the promised KPIs/SLAs
- Demonstrates an ongoing commitment to professional growth in project/program management and other key areas.
- Coach and mentor less experienced colleagues across functional project management teams and within project teams.
- Support senior management in strategic topics leading to global business expansion and growth in operational markets including the creation and update of the relevant support documents
- Engage and lead continuous improvement initiatives to optimize daily tasks
Support the manager to plan budget and resources relying on the project pipeline
What You Bring
- Bachelor's / Master's Degree.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in a similar project management role, running complex programs/projects of work (both waterfall/traditional & Agile project management methodologies )
- Previous experience in Health Insurance or Travel & Assistance industry or sound knowledge of Financial Services/ Insurance industry sector is a plus.
- Project manager qualification (PMP) is a plus.
- Excellent business fluency in English. Additional languages (French, Italian, German, Arabic, etc.) is a plus
- High proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Power point, Project, Visio, Word)
- Strong financial & business acumen
What We Offer
Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.
We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take controlby offeringa large variety of courses and targeted development programs.All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.
51350 | Project Management | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent
Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.
We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.
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