This role serves as the team lead driving digital transformation for Sales Distribution, ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives. It requires close collaboration with cross‑functional stakeholders to manage the full lifecycle of digital initiatives—from roadmap planning and requirements gathering to testing, deployment, and end‑to‑end delivery execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Roadmap & ROI Planning : Define and maintain the digital transformation roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and maximizing return on investment (ROI) through effective prioritization and delivery.
- Project Timeline Management : Provide input, review, and feedback on project timelines to support the delivery of enhancements and backlog items.
- Requirements Gathering & Analysis : Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather, understand, and analyze requirements, translating them into clear user stories or business requirement documents.
- Cross‑Functional Collaboration with Project, IT, and Development teams to ensure alignment, timely delivery of initiatives, and adherence to governance processes.
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Oversight : Plan and manage UAT activities, including test case creation / review, requirement walkthroughs with QA and business teams, and ensuring quality outcomes.
- Backlog Prioritization : Continuously review and prioritize the product backlog, adjusting based on evolving business needs and strategic direction.
- Digital Adoption & Awareness : Lead and manage initiatives that promote digital transformation, increase awareness, and drive adoption.
- Ad hoc tasks that require promoting digital initiatives.
Key Requirements
Degree in a related discipline, preferably Information Technology / Computer Science.Preferably 10 years of working experience in the Insurance Industry; experience in Agency Distribution is an advantage.Experience in Digital and Mobile Services is an added advantage.Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and critical‑thinking skills.Understanding of the product management life cycle and various methodologies from Waterfall to Agile.Familiarity with the use of ChatGPT for tasks and process simplification.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.
At Allianz, we stand for unity : we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. The foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.
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