Chief of Staff, Asia Pacific
Singapore, SG, 068897
Let’s care for tomorrow.
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Whether it’s aircraft, international business or offshore wind parks, Allianz Commercial has an extensive range of risks covered when it comes to protecting businesses.
We are looking for a Chief of Staff, Asia Pacific, who will be based in Singapore.
Job Purpose
The Chief of Staff supports the region to work as one coherent business — translating strategy into execution, aligning functions and countries, and enabling faster, higher-quality decisions.
This role acts as a strategic partner to the President, Commercial, APAC, providing comprehensive support and coordination of strategic business initiatives for the Region.
The role serves as a key partner in facilitating the success of the Allianz Commercial strategy for the Region. The role is required to oversee strategic projects, ensuring alignment and execution of business strategies, and fostering collaboration across diverse teams and stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Partnership and Advisory:
- Trusted advisor to the President identifying issues impacting commitments.
- Support communication between executive teams and other stakeholders.
- Provide strategic counsel and act as an extension of the President.
- Be a core member of the EMT, steering peers and operating across function.
- Work across board areas to translate functional priorities in to local implementation.
Strategy and Change:
- Define, support, and execute business strategy for the Region.
- Prepare and coordinate strategic priorities and frameworks for discussions.
- Coordinate with senior stakeholders, acting as a sounding board to the President.
- Focus on the delivery of the Commercial model.
- Manage regional input to steering cycle (SD, PD etc).
Project Management and Leadership:
- Lead strategic projects, ensuring alignment among stakeholders.
- Coordinate business-wide procedures to improve processes.
- Manage the regional QBR process, driving clear strategy and supporting the gathering of information across all functions.
Communication and Coordination:
- Foster timely and relevant communication across departments.
- Deliver analysis and consultancy to improve business operations.
- Ensure consistency in strategic coordination across the Region.
Budget Management:
- Oversee budget responsibilities, ensuring effective allocation and management of financial resources.
- Collaborate with relevant departments to align budget planning with strategic objectives.
Key Experience
- Minimum of 5-7 years’ experience in (re)insurance, ideally P&C insurance.
- Deep understanding of Insurer Operating model and wider insurance industry context.
- Strong strategic and financial analysis skills, with a results/action orientation
- Proven Leadership skills with ability to grasp complex problems and develop creative solutions to these problems
- Proven track record of successful management of projects involving various stakeholders. Ability to manage projects and develop solutions in a complex environment.
- Deep experience of working in a global matrix organisation including aligning with various stakeholders/functions globally
- Sound understanding of Corporate Underwriting and Trading principles
Required Skills
- Understanding insurance financial statements and related key performance indicators, key financial ratios and business drivers.
- Strategy Development: Ability to translate business priorities into clear, data‑driven strategic plans that guide long‑term direction.
- Driving Change and Innovation: Ability to lead transformation initiatives and embed a culture of continuous improvement and innovative thinking.
- Project management: Ability to manage projects (milestone and task planning, managing resources, project controlling, monitoring, and reporting, moderation techniques) and to develop solutions while considering complex stakeholder structures and requirements.
- Communication and Presentation Skills: Ability to understand, elaborate and convey information clearly and effectively in respect to the audience / level of management (both verbal and in writing).
- Insurance know-how (ideally P&C) as well as understanding of complexities inherent in an insurance group (consolidation processes, legal vs management view) allowing for cross-departmental thinking and acting.
- Fluency in English.
- Proficiency in AI skills: Experience in applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to improve business processes and decision-making is highly beneficial.
93563 | Strategy | Professional | Allianz Commercial | Full-Time | Permanent
What’s in it for you?
Let’s care about everything that makes you, you
We are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong. We offer a hybrid working model, which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working. Please feel free to discuss flexible working arrangements with us.
Let’s care for your financial wellbeing
We believe in rewarding performance with a great compensation and benefits package (details vary by location), including a generous bonus scheme and pension.
Let’s care for your opportunities to progress
From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.
Let’s care for life’s twists and turns
From our support for flexible working, health and wellbeing (including private healthcare and generous parental leave benefits), to helping people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach. We've got your back.
Let’s care for our society and our planet
With opportunities to be engaged in shaping a future that is safe, inclusive and sustainable, we care for the tomorrows of our people, our industry and our clients.
Care to join us?
Allianz Commercial is the center of expertise of Allianz Group, insuring mid-sized businesses, large enterprises, and special risks. Our customers include top consumer brands, financial institutions, industry leaders, the global aviation and shipping industries, as well as family-owned and medium-enterprises. We also cover unique risks such as offshore wind farms, infrastructure projects and film productions. Our clients trust us to provide a wide range of traditional and alternative risk transfer solutions, outstanding risk consulting and multinational services, and seamless claims handling. Allianz Commercial helps customers to prepare for what's ahead.
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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 matters, 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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