Lead Project Management

The Chapter Lead — Project Management is responsible for leading and managing a large project management pool of approximately 50 FTE within the CIO unit of the CTO area of Allianz Partners. This strategic leadership role oversees the delivery of IT projects across the organization, ensuring alignment with business objectives and IT transformation initiatives.

 Operating within a fully agile demand and delivery model, the Chapter Lead — Project Management ensures optimal allocation of project managers based on varying IT project needs. This role serves as the bridge between the Lines of Business and IT, ensuring strategic planning and operational execution, fostering excellence in project delivery, iterative improvements, and team capability development.

What you will do

STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP & VISION
  - Define and implement the strategic direction for the PM function within CTO
  - Champion best practices in project management and agile methodologies
  - Represent PM function in senior leadership forums and drive continuous improvement

 PEOPLE LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT
  - Lead, inspire, and develop a large team of project managers
  - Build a high-performing PM community with clear career paths and development opportunities
  - Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning
  - Drive succession planning, talent retention, and champion diversity & inclusion

 AGILE DEMAND & DELIVERY MODEL
  - Implement and optimize agile demand and delivery model for PM resource allocation
  - Manage resource utilization, balancing demand and capacity across the IT projects
  - Establish governance for resource allocation, prioritization, and escalation
  - Enable flexible, scalable resource deployment across multiple work streams

 PORTFOLIO & PROJECT DELIVERY
  - Oversee IT project delivery, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives
  - Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to quality standards in close alignment with IT PPM function
  - Establish and maintain Project Management governance frameworks, standards, and best practices
  - Monitor project health, risks, and issues; enable transparent stakeholder reporting

 STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT & RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
  - Build and maintain strong relationships with CxO stakeholders, business leaders, and delivery partners
  - Partner with IT delivery teams, architecture, operations, and manage external vendor relationships
  - Act as trusted advisor on project delivery matters

 GOVERNANCE, STANDARDS & PROCESS EXCELLENCE
  - Define, implement, and maintain PM standards, methodologies, and governance frameworks
  - Drive adoption of tools, templates, and best practices across the PM community
  - Manage change control, risk management, and issue resolution processes

 FINANCIAL & BUDGET MANAGEMENT
  - Manage PM function budget and oversee project financials across the projects
  - Provide financial reporting and forecasting; optimize resource costs
  - Support business case development and benefits realization tracking

 TRANSFORMATION & CHANGE LEADERSHIP
  - Champion organizational change and transformation initiatives
  - Drive cultural change toward agile, collaborative ways of working
  - Lead adoption of new technologies, tools, and delivery approaches

What you will bring

• Multi-Year experience in Project/Programme Management, at least 5+ years leading large PM teams. 
• Proven ability in Demand Management, Benefit realisation, budget tracking, IT cost management.                     
• Proven experience implementing agile at scale (SAFe, LeSS, or similar frameworks); leading organizational transformation
• Proven ability to manage large resource pools, optimize capacity allocation across multiple projects/programmes
• Experience managing IT project governance, and standards; strong financial acumen; managing multi-million budgets, forecasting, cost optimization, benefits realization          

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.

95698 | Project Management | Professional | Allianz Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent

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.