Manager Performance and Planning
Sydney, NSW, AU, 2000
MANAGER, PERFORMANCE AND PLANNING – COMMERCIAL – SYDNEY, NSW
At Allianz, we’re proud to be named one of the Best Workplaces in Australia 2025 and a Great Place to Work. As a leading global insurance and asset management brand, we prioritise care for our customers, the planet, and each other. We hire the very best people to further our commitment to caring and securing the future for our customers.
We offer an inclusive workplace where everyone feels like they belong, while promoting a culture of lifelong learning, development, and global mobility. Join us and share your ideas, be inspired, give back to the community and feel proud to be a part of an organisation doing meaningful work that matters while supporting sustainability, mental health, and well-being.
Let’s care for tomorrow, so we can create a better future together, for everyone.
About the role
The primary purpose of this role is to be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining a comprehensive performance measurement framework that tracks key performance indicators (KPIs) and measures both leading and lagging indicators. This role involves collaborating with Group to meet Global reporting requirements, providing insights into how the business is performing against its strategic objectives and identifying areas for improvement.
- Design and implement a robust performance measurement framework that aligns with the company's strategic goals and both Global and local accountabilities.
- Identify and define key performance indicators (KPIs) that effectively measure business success, including both leading and lagging indicators.
- Collect, analyse, and interpret performance data from various sources (technical, finance, operational) to provide actionable insights.
- Collaborate and lead the preparation of Global Quarterly Business Review to meet global commitments, ensuring both financial and strategic narrative are captured appropriately.
- Respond to ad hoc requests for data, information, reports and presentations from internal and external stakeholders in an accurate and timely manner.
- Collaborate across divisions and bring all the technical, financial and key operational metrics together across all lines of business into dashboards to drive business insights and outperformance culture
- Partner with key stakeholders in Commercial, Technical, Claims, Finance, Operations, Marketing & Global Allianz Commercial to provide meaningful business insights to drive actions.
About you
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Finance, Economics, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
- Proven experience in performance measurement, data analysis, and reporting.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to interpret complex data sets and provide actionable insights.
- Proficiency in data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) and advanced Excel skills.
- Excellent collaboration, communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly to diverse audiences.
- Strong relationship management skills to influence positive outcomes with diverse stakeholders and strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and manage multiple priorities.
- Strategic Orientation: Understanding of business strategy and how performance measurement supports strategic objectives.
- A passion for leveraging emerging technologies to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Benefits and perks
- Inclusive Culture: Join a supportive, open-minded team focused on customer outcomes, bringing your authentic self to work every day!
- Flexible Work-Life Balance: Enjoy flexible and hybrid work arrangements and tailored workplace adjustments, where possible.
- Career Development: Access mentoring, development and global mobility opportunities for growth and success, including access to over 10,000 learning resources.
- Financial and Well-being Perks: Enjoy discounts on Allianz products, retail, tech, and travel, plus financial wellness initiatives and the Employee Share Purchase Program- own a piece of your employer!
- For more details about our benefits, visit the Allianz Careers site.
About Allianz Group
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 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.
Adjustments and support
If you require any support and adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process, we encourage you to reach out to careers@allianz.com.au for a confidential conversation.
Join us. Let’s care for tomorrow. www.allianz.com.au/careers
