Operations Excellence Lead
Madrid, M, ES, 28043 Munich, DE, 80333 Bucarest, RO, 020339
Reporting to the Head of Excellence & Performance RSA (Roadside Assistance) Operations, the Operational Excellence Lead is responsible for executing and driving the strategic vision for excellence across the value chain. As a central link between all key stakeholders, including complaints management, quality assurance, training, voice of customer (VoC), post call surveys (PCS), HR KPIs, and Operations feedback, the Operational Excellence Lead will leverage several insights and lead transformation initiatives to align and implement standards consistently across the organization, ensuring high-quality service delivery and customer excellence. This position requires a mature leader with extensive experience in operations standards and change management to support strategic goals as well as experience in training delivery.
What you do
- Strategic Vision & Execution: Define and implement the strategic vision for operational excellence and quality management globally, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and objectives and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Transformation Leadership: Lead transformation initiatives to align standards and implement them consistently across the organization.
- Quality & Training Strategy: Develop and execute a comprehensive strategy for quality management and training, reshaping training strategy in terms of content, delivery, and media. Collaborate with regional leads to support rollout and implementation, integrating AI and knowledge management systems as key enablers. It should also include all Quality assurance metrics & processes to ensure compliance with standards and regulations with regular reporting to address any training needs.
- Customer Satisfaction delivery: consistently enhance customer excellence by leveraging 360 feedback coming from VOC/NPS results, complaints, PCS (Post Call Survey) and adjust local & global initiatives accordingly
- Complaints Management: Implement and maintain a sustainable complaints management process for tracking and identifying improvement actions.
- Knowledge Management: Establish systems for knowledge sharing and collaboration among communities.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as the key liaison between various stakeholders, including VoC, PCS, HR, and regional teams, to ensure cohesive efforts towards excellence. Collaborate with various departments to integrate quality measures into all aspects of the organization’s operations.
- Platform Standards: Design and execute all platform standards (from daily routine to KPI monitoring) to ensure high-quality standards and a culture of quality & excellence. It will also be key to ensure consistency in the management of platforms worldwide leveraging industry best practices, Group standards, and local regulatory requirements.
- Team Leadership: Build and lead a high-performing team, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence that improves AES scores, absenteeism rates, and performance metrics.
What you bring
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
- 10+ years of experience in operations standards, quality assurance, training and change management.
- Proven track record of leading transformation initiatives & driving excellence in service delivery.
- Strong strategic thinking and leadership skills, with the ability to align and implement standards consistently.
- Experience in leveraging VoC, PCS, and HR insights to inform strategic decisions.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects and drive change across the organization.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data and develop actionable insights.
- Fluency in English; additional language skills are a plus.
- Work effectively in an environment shaped by artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, data analytics and cloud-based tools, using insights responsibly with our standards of data governance, security and ethical use.
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.
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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.
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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.