Head of Office to Chief Officer, Health

Key Responsibilities / What You Do

As Head of Office to the Chief Officer, Health, you will act as a trusted advisor and extension of the Chief Officer, driving governance, coordination, and execution across a complex international environment while representing the Chief Officer in selected forums. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, leading cross-functional initiatives, driving outcomes, and ensuring alignment among stakeholders globally.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Strategic Steering & Execution: Lead and independently drive key strategic initiatives and cross-functional projects, ensuring delivery against business priorities and timelines.
• Executive Advisory & Representation: Serve as a trusted advisor to the Chief Officer by providing insights, constructive challenge, and recommendations. Represent the Chief Officer in meetings, decision-making forums, and stakeholder engagements as delegated.
• Business Performance & Reporting: Own the preparation and consolidation of executive-level reporting, including dashboards, Board of Management materials, and performance reviews. Translate complex data into actionable insights and recommendations.
• Delivery Management: Drive the operating cadence of the Health Line of Business, ensuring alignment of priorities, monitoring deliverables, and maintaining accountability for outcomes across functions.
• Financial Oversight & Planning: Oversee and challenge Line of Business budgets, forecasts, and cost development to ensure alignment with strategic objectives and financial targets.
• Communications: Manage senior stakeholder relationships and ensure clear, effective, and impactful internal and external communications.
• Governance: Ensure the effective tracking and resolution of legal, compliance, audit, and regulatory matters, proactively escalating risks and driving closure.
• Transformation: Identify and implement improvements to processes, governance frameworks, and organizational effectiveness.

Key Requirements / What You Bring

To succeed in this role, you will bring:

• 5+ years of experience in consulting, project management, or a similar role within a complex international business environment.
• Strong stakeholder and relationship management capabilities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, and influencing skills.
• Strong time management, prioritization, and organizational skills, with the ability to perform effectively under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Fluent English (mandatory); German and/or French are considered an advantage.
• Experience in the insurance sector is beneficial but not required.
• Ability to work effectively in a multicultural environment and within a matrix organization.
• A high level of reliability, dedication, and commitment.
• You 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. 

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. We are united by a shared commitment: to put our customers first and at the center of everything we do. Their needs inspire our thinking and guide our actions. Together, we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and confident to explore, grow and shape a better future – for our customers and for 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. The foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and where integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust are at the heart of our culture. We therefore welcome applications regardless of race, 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 employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, Allianz expects from its employees a general openness and a high motivation to regularly change positions and collect experiences across Allianz Group.