Business Strategy Lead

Entity: Allianz Insurance Singapore

Allianz Insurance Singapore (AIS) has established itself as one of the fastest-growing General Insurance companies in the market, achieving remarkable success since its inception. Through a strong commitment to excellence, innovation, and customer focus, AIS has consistently delivered outstanding business growth. We are also proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work, reflecting our dedication to fostering a positive, inclusive, and employee-driven culture where our people can thrive.

Description:

The Business Strategy Lead is responsible for driving the development and delivery of strategic business initiatives across Allianz Insurance Singapore, ensuring the company maintains strategic momentum both within and outside of the formal Allianz planning cycles. This role partners closely with the Head of Transformation, Strategy and Operations and the executive team to identify opportunities, translate strategic priorities into actionable initiatives, and ensure their execution across departments.

This role requires a blend of strategic thinking, structured problem-solving, project leadership, and the ability to influence stakeholders across all levels of the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy Development & Business Planning:
•    Support the development, refinement, and communication of the company's business strategy, working alongside the executive team and functional leaders.
•    Conduct market and competitor analysis, model scenarios, define strategic options, and build business cases for new growth vectors, partnerships, or capability investments.
•    Lead the coordination and preparation of Allianz Insurance Singapore's Strategic Dialogue (SD) and Planning Dialogue (PD) submissions, including situational analyses, strategic direction papers, and financial plan inputs.
•    Prepare strategic presentations and executive communications, including Board-level and Executive Committee materials, ensuring clarity, structure, and business relevance.

Strategic Initiative Development & Delivery:
•    Translate strategic priorities into actionable enterprise KPIs and initiative roadmaps.
•    Identify, develop, and propose strategic business initiatives — ensuring AIS can act on emerging opportunities with agility.
•    Design and lead cross-functional initiative delivery, partnering with key functions (Underwriting, Distribution, Claims, Operations, Finance, IT) to ensure alignment and delivery of outcomes.
•    Facilitate cross-departmental working groups to develop and validate strategic proposals, ensuring buy-in from key stakeholders.

Initiative Execution & Performance Tracking:
•    Maintain a portfolio view of all strategic business initiatives such as ideation and creation of new insurance products or portfolio revisions and their progress against milestones, KPIs, and expected business benefits.
•    Drive accountability across initiative owners, ensuring consistent follow-through between planning cycles.
•    Work with various functions to consolidate, report, and analyze initiative progress in a timely, efficient, and accurate manner.
•    Support benefit realization tracking and post-implementation reviews for completed initiatives.
•    Flag risks, dependencies, and resource needs to the leadership team, recommending corrective actions where required.

External Environment & Thought Leadership:
•    Monitor regulatory developments, competitive dynamics, and market trends within Singapore's insurance landscape, advising leadership on strategic implications.
•    Build and maintain relationships with key external stakeholders, industry bodies, and partners to support strategic objectives.
•    Contribute thought leadership and insights to support the company's positioning and long-term growth agenda.

Qualifications and Skills:

•    Bachelor’s degree in business, Economics, Finance, or a related discipline.
•    Minimum 5 years of experience in strategy, management consulting, corporate planning, or a strategy office / CEO office environment.
•    Proven project management experience, having led cross-functional projects from concept to delivery.
•    Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate data, research, and trends into viable strategic recommendations.
•    Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to prepare and deliver executive-level presentations and business cases.
•    Exposure to working closely with senior executives or within a strategy office is strongly preferred.
•    Experience with modern analytics and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI) to support insights generation and initiative tracking.
•    Insurance or financial services experience is preferred but not required.
•    Familiarity with Singapore's regulatory and competitive insurance landscape.
•    AI-Skills e.g. ChatGPT and Microsoft CoPilot an advantage.

92535 | Strategy | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Singapore | 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.

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