Senior Crisis Management Expert

About the Job 

For more than 125 years we at Allianz have been driving excellence and trust. We have become one of the world’s leading finance and insurance companies, driven by stringent and innovative digitalization. We at Allianz Technology SE are more than 10,000 IT experts delivering highly complex IT services to more than 200 of our global entities. IT is our business and a secure and resilient environment is our mission! Our division “Security and Resilience” is tasked with:

Ensuring strong security and resilience governance for the whole organization

Developing global security and resilience solutions and driving best practice

Overseeing the effectiveness and guiding the implementation of security and resilience controls.

Within the Security & Resilience division of Allianz Technology SE, Protection & Resilience (P&R)  is a global team that brings together experts to anticipate and prepare our organization to respond to, and recover from, any disruption, emergency or crisis situation whilst at the time, find opportunities to continuously and comprehensively build resilience both internally as well as across the entire Allianz Group.

For this team, we are looking for a Crisis Management Expert with the skills, education, and experience necessary to prepare our global organization for crisis readiness. As part of the Protection & Resilience Central Team, you will collaborate with the global Crisis Manager, Protective Security Manager, Intelligence Fusion Center, and BCM experts to drive projects and initiatives that enhance crisis readiness and mature crisis response across Allianz Technology globally and contribute to building resilience throughout the Allianz Technology Group.

What you do

• Assist in implementation and maintenance of the global crisis management program, ensuring continuous improvement and capability-building to respond to and recover from crises, while managing global governance and performing advisory and quality assessments at headquarters and global entities.
• Support and advise internal and external stakeholders on all tasks, deliverables, and topics relating to crisis management, including tactical and strategic support during crisis events.
• Collaborate with relevant experts to support threat assessments and assist in scenario planning, developing, advising, or supporting crisis response and business continuity plans for general and specific in-scope scenarios.
• Help support the implementation and maintenance of the training program for crisis management, deliver training to stakeholders involved in the crisis management process, and assist in training provision for senior leaders.
• Support the implementation of the exercise program for crisis management, design, coordinate, and facilitate crisis simulation exercises, and publish post-exercise reports, maintaining and improving tools like the Everbridge 360 crisis management tool.
• Manage or support global and local crisis preparedness and organizational resilience projects to enhance readiness, response, and resilience, coordinating learning and remediation action plans following simulation exercises or real crisis situations.
• Maintain contact list of key response stakeholders across the organization and remain updated on industry trends and best practices relating to crisis management, resilience, and associated disciplines.

What you bring

• Minimum of 4-5 years of relevant experience in two or more areas: crisis management, emergency management, disaster management, business continuity management, protective security, resilience, risk management, cyber security, project management, or related fields.
• University degree in a relevant discipline such as disaster/emergency management, risk management, international security, business administration, political science, management, strategy, or related fields.
• Experience in running global crisis management programs and coordinating/interacting with stakeholders worldwide, including designing and running crisis management exercises.
• Experience in project management, ideally in an agile environment, with a profound interest in crisis management and resilience-related topics, motivated to expand skills and expertise actively.
• Knowledge of international and national standards applicable to crisis management, business continuity management, and resilience (desirable but not essential).
• Solid analytical and conceptual skills, excellent organizational and prioritization skills to meet deadlines, and strong communication and interpersonal skills to influence effectively in written and verbal forms.
• Ability to work independently and autonomously under pressure, familiarity with communication and presentation tools (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint), capability to build collaborative working relationships in virtual, international, and complex team environments, with advanced proficiency in English (additional languages are a plus).
• Basic knowledge of AI technologies, principles and their practical use.

What we offer

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
• We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location).
• From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.
• Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.

About Allianz Technology

With its headquarters in Munich, Germany, Allianz Technology is Allianz's global IT service provider and delivers IT solutions that drive the group's digitalization. With more than 11,000 employees in over 20 countries around the world, Allianz Technology is tasked to run, optimize, transform, and innovate the infrastructure, applications, and services together with Allianz companies to co-create the best customer experience.

We service the entire spectrum of digitalization – from one of the industry's largest IT infrastructure projects that spans data centres, networks, and security, to application platforms ranging from workplace services to digital interaction.

In short: We deliver comprehensive end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age. We are the backbone of Allianz.

Find us at: www.linkedin.com/company/allianz-technology.

Commitment to Integrity, Fairness & Inclusion

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 strong inclusive culture that encourages people to speak their minds, get involved and question the status quo. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and 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 race, ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

To Recruitment Agencies:

Allianz Technology has an in-house recruitment team that sources great candidates directly. Therefore, Allianz Technology does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies or search firm recruiters.

When we do work with recruitment agencies, that engagement is formalized by a contract. Fees will only be paid when there is a contract in place. Without a contract in place, we will not accept invoices on unsolicited resumes, even if the candidate was ultimately employed by Allianz.

 85796 | Operations | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Technology | Full-Time | Permanent