Allianz Partners Health has a unique and exciting job opportunity available for someone who enjoys challenging the status quo and seeking out creative ways to support the company`s largest platform transformation program - Iris. The candidate required will possess the right balance of technical project management knowhow along with influencing and relationship building skills necessary to drive the Iris Program to a successful conclusion and within challenging deadlines. Ultimately, this candidate will be the core liaison between our global business functions and the IT delivery partners, being comfortable translating the strategic needs of each department and ensuring an alignment exists between the project stakeholders. What you do Project Management Excellence Ability to manage and deliver multiple complex IT Programs of work in parallel, responsible for business benefit realisation at Program level and ensuring company strategic goals are delivered Defined Life Cycle and Milestones: map and define phases, deliverables, key milestones and sufficiency criteria for each stage in the project lifecycle Stable Requirements and Scope: requirements, objectives and scope are documented and stabilized Defined Organization, Systems, and Roles: establish project charters, with clearly defined structures, and roles for all involved Quality Assurance: Establishing and meeting agreed to commitments with a constant eye for improvement. Ensure clarity on the standards and criteria to be set in each phase of the project life cycle for both the product and the process Planned Commitments: Planning, scheduling, resource allocation and staffing, and budgeting Scope and mission; define project boundaries, establish goals and objectives. Ensuring there is a clear business case which can provide a basis for decision-making Scheduling; capacity planning and evaluation, evaluation of activity sequences and duration plus resource requirements to create the project schedule Budgeting: development of an overall cost estimate based on individual work items to be used as a cost baseline for measuring project performance Personnel: Determine the recruitment, selection, and training of project team members Evaluation and control: provide a complete and transparent picture of the project's progress Risk and problems: Systematically identifying, assessing and managing risks, issues, assumptions and decisions. Being proactive rather than reactive for possible future disruptive events Quality: Ensuring the delivered products meets expectations Strategy alignment Ensure alignment with Strategic Planning Process so that all Programs are aligned with the overall strategy of the business Engage with Business leaders on strategic Program planning and prioritisation of initiatives, collaborating the role of the Strategic Project office to ensure successful delivery of the company strategy Project Methodologies Insure Project methodologies (Agile), Project delivery processes, and implementation management processes are followed Stakeholder Engagement Engage with executive level stakeholders across the business Foster strong working relationship with Business Sponsors, Key Stakeholders, Business Analysis, Development & Testing teams Communication Provides clear and concise Program communication; both written and verbal. Often communicating with company executives regarding the status of Programs and delivery of related business outcomes Team Leadership Fosters a positive, open and supportive leadership team within OM Promote an OM team spirit Derives and implements activities to support team motivation and engagement Build a team of highly capable professionals that are empowered and self sufficient Team Management Attract and hire top talent Benchmark and standardise Team objectives & measures Maximise the potential of all team members, dedicating time to focus on development plans for high potentials in the team. Strengthen consequence management, to address any lower than expected performance & handle in a way that doesn't negatively impact team spirit / morale / reputation\" Team Ambassador Represent Organisational Management across the business; proactively engaging, facilitating workshops, sharing knowledge, and providing advice in terms of the most effective use of technology to support delivery of the business's strategic ambitions Working with your peers, proactively lead development of the Organisational Management Team and its objectives Travel Some (on occasions significant) travel will be required for this role to support the needs of the busines Behaviour/Values Required: The Allianz People Attributes nicely summaries the key behaviours./ values we expect: Customer & Market Excellence: Strives for excellence at every touch point with the customer Foster state of the art technical / operational knowledge and strive for continuous simplification Strives to be the benchmark Collaborative Leadership: empowers others and provides direction and purpose develops people, provide feedback and care for employee wellbeing. collaborates and exchanges best practice Entrepreneurship: acts on opportunities, anticipate trends, take risks, and promotes a culture and allows for honest failure takes ownership and responsibility embraces innovation and a culture that allows to make decisions with fear of retribution Trust: acts with integrity, we honour our commitments and we tell the truth acts transparently and promote corporate social responsibility fosters diversity and inclusiveness What you bring 15+ years of experience, running multiple complex Programs of work. Educated to degree level Knowledge of Financial Services/ Insurance Industry Sector Demonstrate experience of both waterfall and agile Project delivery Project Management Training such as PMI a distinct advantage Top-Tier Consulting experience a distinct advantag What we offer The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work in growing multicultural company committed to empowering its employees and furthering their development. A competitive remuneration and benefits package is offered, including healthcare, pension, life & disability, travel subsidy, discounts on home and car insurance, sports & social club and support for professional studies To be considered for this role you will be redirected to and must complete the application process on our careers page. To start the process, click the Apply button below to Login/Register.