Business Manager

Job Level: Professional

Location:

London, GB, EC2N 3AR

Area of Expertise: Sales & Distribution

Unit: Allianz Commercial

Employing Entity: Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE

Job Type: Full-Time

Remote Job: Hybrid working

Employment Type: Permanent

ID: 95297

Position Cluster: Non-Executive

Let’s care for tomorrow.

Your ambitions. Your dreams. Your tomorrow

Whether it’s aircraft, international business or offshore wind parks, Allianz Commercial has an extensive range of risks covered when it comes to protecting businesses.

We are looking for a Business Manager to join our London office. This is a unique opportunity to work closely with senior executives, influence key decisions, and contribute to the success of our regional and global objectives.

Your Team

As the Business Manager, you will work closely with the Regional President and the Executive Management Team (EMT), acting as a trusted advisor and strategic partner. You will collaborate with senior leaders across various functions and countries, ensuring alignment and fostering a cohesive approach to achieving regional and global objectives. This role requires you to operate at the heart of the organization, enabling faster, higher-quality decision-making and driving the success of Allianz Commercial's strategy in the region.

The Impact You Will Have

In this role, you will play a pivotal part in shaping and executing the regional strategy. By acting as a bridge between the Regional President, executive teams, and stakeholders, you will ensure that strategic priorities are translated into actionable plans. Your ability to lead projects, manage budgets, and foster collaboration will directly contribute to the success of Allianz Commercial in the region. You will also drive innovation, improve processes, and enable the organization to adapt to a rapidly changing business environment.

Some of your specific responsibilities could include

Strategic Partnership and Advisory

Acting as a trusted advisor to the Regional President, providing strategic counsel and identifying issues impacting commitments.
Serving as a core member of the EMT, steering peers and operating across functions.
Translating functional priorities into local implementation and fostering communication between executive teams and stakeholders.

Strategy and Change Management

Defining, supporting, and executing the business strategy for the region.
Preparing and coordinating strategic priorities and frameworks for discussions.
Driving the delivery of the Allianz Commercial model and managing regional input to the steering cycle (e.g., SD, PD).

Project Management and Leadership

Leading strategic projects, ensuring alignment among stakeholders and driving successful outcomes.
Coordinating business-wide procedures to improve processes and managing the regional QBR process.

Communication and Coordination

Fostering timely and relevant communication across departments and stakeholders.
Delivering analysis and consultancy to improve business operations and ensuring consistency in strategic coordination.

Budget Management

Overseeing budget responsibilities, ensuring effective allocation and management of financial resources.
Collaborating with relevant departments to align budget planning with strategic objectives.

What You'll Bring to the Role

Advanced understanding of insurer operating models and the wider insurance industry context.
Proven leadership skills with the ability to solve complex problems creatively.
Demonstrated success in managing projects involving diverse stakeholders in a complex environment.
Experience working in a global matrix organization, aligning stakeholders and functions.
Strong strategic and financial analysis capabilities.
Intermediate understanding of corporate underwriting and trading principles (3–5 years of experience).
Minimum 5–7 years of experience in strategy development, project management, and driving change in a global organization.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills to foster collaboration across diverse teams.
Results-oriented mindset with a focus on delivering high-quality outcomes.
Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities effectively.
Experience in applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to improve business processes and decision-making is highly beneficial.

What’s in it for you?

Let’s care about everything that makes you, you

We are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong. We offer a hybrid working model, which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working. Please feel free to discuss flexible working arrangements with us.

Let’s care for your financial wellbeing

We believe in rewarding performance with a great compensation and benefits package (details vary by location), including a generous bonus scheme and pension.

Let’s care for your opportunities to progress

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.

Let’s care for life’s twists and turns

From our support for flexible working, health and wellbeing (including private healthcare and generous parental leave benefits), to helping people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach. We've got your back.

Let’s care for our society and our planet

With opportunities to be engaged in shaping a future that is safe, inclusive and sustainable, we care for the tomorrows of our people, our industry and our clients.

Care to join us?

Allianz Commercial is the center of expertise of Allianz Group, insuring mid-sized businesses, large enterprises, and special risks. Our customers include top consumer brands, financial institutions, industry leaders, the global aviation and shipping industries, as well as family-owned and medium-enterprises. We also cover unique risks such as offshore wind farms, infrastructure projects and film productions. Our clients trust us to provide a wide range of traditional and alternative risk transfer solutions, outstanding risk consulting and multinational services, and seamless claims handling. Allianz Commercial helps customers to prepare for what's ahead.

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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. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matters, 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.

Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.

People with disabilities:
We want to give all our candidates the best opportunity to succeed.  If you need any adjustments to be made during the application and selection process, please email agcsglobalcareers@allianz.com

Recruitment Agencies: 
Allianz Commercial has an in-house recruitment team, which focuses on sourcing great candidates directly.  Allianz Commercial does not accept unsolicited resumes from agency or search firm recruiters.  Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired.  When we do use agencies, we have a PSL in place, so please do not contact managers directly. Failure to comply could/may result in the disqualification of the candidates and/or the termination of our contract and/or fees not being paid.

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