Agile Delivery Manager

Role Description

Allianz Specialty have a fantastic opportunity for a Agile Delivery Manager to join our family of talented people in the Transformation Change Team.

The Agile Delivery Manager will be responsible for the delivery of the long-lived team ‘train’ (or interlinked project objectives) which is set up across and aligned to the relevant business area.

You will have direct line management of the change roles and project management of other key project resource such as Allianz technology.

In this role you will plan and manage a delivery train to achieve a defined set of business objectives which are aligned to the business strategy within agreed parameters of cost, time and quality. This may be a number of complex projects across functions and could involve transformational/strategic change.

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

• Manage the delivery train activities (end to end delivery of multiple concurrent change initiatives and projects) on a day-to-day basis on behalf of the Programme Sponsor through the Change Management Framework. These will often have a broad impact including systems, organisational design (including mergers and acquisition activity), business process and cultural change.
• Support the Head of Change to meet the change portfolio responsibilities.
• Leadership of team members of the long‑lived team (Train) including team objectives, team performance and development.
• Define and be accountable for the approach and milestone dates and maintain the plan.
• Identify, secure and engage with internal and external resources to ensure programme/project delivery.
• Be responsible for the relationships between the sponsor and the relevant change management functions (including third party providers) to include the commercial terms and conditions of change programmes for the sponsor.
• Create a sense of urgency and vision around the programme/project driving pace for delivery.
• To manage programme/project communication and engagement across all relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure programme/project/Train benefits are identified and aligned to strategic objectives at the beginning and measured throughout and after the programme/project.
• Develop, manage and ensure accurate progress analysis on a Strategic Programme/Project of change, as agreed with the sponsor and consistent with the Change Management Framework/Value delivery framework.
• To ensure that change is implemented with minimal adverse impact to business as usual &/or into the continuous change element of the long lived team.
• To define and own the Programme/Project Budget seeking ways to reduce cost and increase or bring forward benefits.
• To set challenging but achievable targets for programme/project/change staff, take responsibility for task and line management and ensure constructive feedback is shared.
• To take leadership responsibility for managing, coaching and developing team members to ensure that performance objectives are met and team feel highly valued and motivated.
• Pro‑actively manage issues, risks and dependencies acting as appropriate to achieve urgent resolution, escalating clearly and promptly as required.
• To take responsibility for identifying and managing additional operational risk introduced through implementing change.
• Ensure compliance with the rules & requirements of OUR REGULATORS and any other relevant legal/regulatory/risk management frameworks, including the TCF (Treating Customers Fairly) framework.
• Ensure programmes and projects are closed properly, benefit managers are clear of their accountabilities and Post Implementation Reviews are undertaken.
• Within the wider Change and Portfolio Community, take responsibility for process improvement and assist in the development and implementation of project management best practice.

To be successful for the roleyou will have an understanding of General Insurance end to end process and products with the ability to work alongside cross‑functional experienced teams.

We thrive on working collaboratively, with each other and always with our internal and…