Head of Product Deployment Europe / APAC

The Head of Product Deployment Europe / APAC is a critical delivery leader responsible for ensuring seamless product implementation, accurate documentation, and operational readiness across regional markets. Reporting to the Head of Global Product, this role translates commercial offers into configured solutions, driving speed, quality, and compliance from quote to delivery.
This leader oversees configuration, policy documentation (T&Cs, IPIDs), testing and quality assurance, automation initiatives, and product inventory management. By enabling scalable launches and minimizing risk, the role ensures operational excellence and a superior customer and partner experience.

What you will do

1. Strategic Leadership
Define and execute a global product deployment strategy that ensures timely, accurate, and compliant product launches.
Own product implementation KPIs, including cycle time, defect rates, documentation accuracy, and automation progress.
Standardize commercial offer configuration processes and templates across markets.
Drive automation initiatives from quote to delivery, leveraging API integrations and straight-through processing.
Maintain and govern the global product inventory, including sunsetting inactive products.

2. Organizational Transformation & Leadership
Establish a scalable product deployment operating model with clear intake, gating, and quality assurance processes.
Build and mentor a high-performing team of configuration specialists, documentation SMEs, and QA experts.
Embed risk management practices (RAID logs, go/no-go criteria) and continuous improvement initiatives.
Implement knowledge management for SOPs, templates, and deployment playbooks. Sign off on commercial deviations and exceptions, ensuring risk assessment, documentation, and compliance with governance standards.

3. Quality, Documentation & Testing
Ensure accurate and compliant policy documentation (T&Cs, IPIDs) for all offers, including localization workflows.
Oversee end-to-end testing (functional, UAT, regression) and sign-off for product releases.
Monitor and resolve incidents related to product deployments; implement corrective and preventive actions.
Keep templates and standards updated and audit-ready.

4. Stakeholder Engagement & Delivery Enablement
Collaborate with Product Development, Governance, Product Management, Underwriting, and Markets to ensure implementation readiness.
Provide transparent reporting on deployment status, risks, and decisions to executive forums.
Support Sales and Product Management during launch communications and partner onboarding.
Drive cross-market alignment on configuration standards to reduce complexity and technical debt.

What you will bring

Experience leading cross-functional and/or cross-country teams                                    
Ability to manage multiple high-impact initiatives towards organizational targets            
Extensive knowledge of multiple professional areas and the ability to combine critical information from diverse areas
Strong expertise in Travel Products and standardization scalability and sustainable profitability        
Understand insurance industry and regulatory environment

What we offer   

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey. We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

At Allianz we use some AI-assisted technology as part of our recruitment process to help match candidates to roles based on skills, experience, job title, and location. AI supports our recruiters by enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of candidate assessments and job recommendations, while all applications are reviewed by our recruitment team and final hiring decisions are made by humans.

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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. And 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. 

Join us. Let's care for tomorrow. 

Note: Having different strengths, experiences, perspectives and approaches is an integral part of Allianz‘ company culture. One means to achieve this is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company expects from its employees a general openness and a high motivation to regularly change positions and collect experiences across Allianz Group.