Key Account Manager
Home, GB, HOME BASED
Role Description
We are seeking a proactive and commercially minded individual to manage key strategic relationships with a portfolio of UK partnerships. As the primary point of contact, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining long-term, profitable partnerships that support the business’s growth objectives.
You will coordinate the delivery of tailored propositions across internal teams, ensuring the development of sustainable and value driven trading relationships that align with both our strategic goals and partners needs.
This is a home-based role.
Salary Information
Pay: Circa £65,000 per year. Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.
About You
- Owns the individual partnerships profit and loss account, expenses, and key performance indicators, ensuring broker delivery against Corporate Plan targets. Creates account plans, manages performance against plans, and takes corrective actions where required. Leads virtual teams to deliver against the plans.
- Manages relevant stakeholders, governance processes, and procedures.
- Develops, communicates, and implements the individual partnerships strategy in line with Corporate Plan targets, engaging all supporting teams regularly to maintain focus.
- Builds strong relationships with partnership key personnel (existing and new customer) to fully understand their businesses, trading models, and organizational structures, enabling the negotiation of strong commercial outcomes and effective internal stakeholder engagement.
- Responsible for executing strategic projects and business initiatives to achieve planned business benefits.
- Keeps up to date with both insurance market and partner sector developments and trends, working proactively with partners and the business to assess potential impacts and drive discussions on change to evolve the business and strategy (e.g., new technology, competitor activity, regulatory changes).
Essential Skills
- Strong leadership experience with a proven track record of engaging and leading cross-functional teams to deliver customer and profitable growth objectives.
- Extensive account and relationship management experience, with the ability to develop and implement customer strategies, build effective relationships at director level, and influence joint strategies.
- Commercial and strategic acumen, with the ability to align customer and company strategies, identify profitable growth opportunities, and make informed business decisions.
- Strong financial expertise, including a sound understanding of P&L and the ability to interpret results and take appropriate actions.
- Experience in project management and delivering strategic initiatives to achieve business outcomes.
- In-depth knowledge of the personal insurance market and distribution environment, with a strong understanding of Allianz’s customer and partnerships propositions.
- Clear awareness of agency, regulatory, and compliance requirements.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including relationship management, networking, negotiation, and persuasion.
We support the government scheme “Access to Work” please feel free to ask us about the access to work scheme.
What We Will Offer You
Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:
- Flexible buy/sell holiday options
- Hybrid working
- Annual performance related bonus
- Contributory pension scheme
- Development days
- A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
- Retail discounts
- Volunteering days
Our Ways of Working
Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.
Integrity, Fairness, Inclusion & Trust
At Allianz, we believe in fostering an inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our commitment to equal opportunities, gender equity, and balanced gender representation, is demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.
We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.
We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.
Accessible Application for All
As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, for those meeting the essential skills for the role.
Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications.
For any inquiries or to submit your application, please contact: Matthew Irvine
Closing date: 6/2/2026
We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.
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90037 | Sales & Distribution | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz UK | Full-Time | Permanent
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