Senior Portfolio Manager Consumer

Senior Portfolio Manager Consumer | Technical | Sydney

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.

The primary purpose of this role is to lead and drive the portfolio management and technical excellence initiatives for products and portfolios within the role remit, to ensure financial targets and portfolio strategy are delivered.

About the role

• Leading the development and implementation of Portfolio Strategies, incorporating insights from market, competitor, and customer research, and ensuring alignment with the annual Financial Plan.
• Defining and leading the monitoring of market, competitor, and performance trends, and developing insights that are driving strategic pivots as needed, including establishing targets and definitions of KPIs and relevant measurement indices.
• Contributing to the setting of risk appetite for products and portfolios within remit, in line with the enterprise risk appetite statement, and ensuring adherence to the set thresholds.
• Defining and maintaining appropriate Target Markets based on insights and data, and actively managing portfolio exposure to comply with accumulation management requirements.
• Driving continuous monitoring of trends and growth opportunities, including identifying underperforming segments and leading remedial actions to address performance variances.
• Leading the technical contribution to enterprise financial planning processes and engaging stakeholders to drive aligned portfolio actions.
• Leading communications on enterprise-wide product and portfolio topics, engaging stakeholders to identify and implement portfolio actions across key levers, and preparing reports for enterprise and divisional forums such as Smart Circle.
• Establishing pricing strategies by liaising with the pricing team, ensuring pricing adequacy, and supporting capability development to meet growth and profitability targets.
• Supporting the implementation and identification of opportunities for more granular rating tools and new data sources to enhance pricing capabilities.
• Providing recommendations on commercial pricing decisions in alignment with portfolio performance objectives, and in compliance with pricing governance and risk frameworks.

About you

• Tertiary qualifications in Actuarial Science, Finance or related disciplines highly desirable.
• Extensive portfolio management experience in a senior management role for a complex, matrixed financial services organisation.
• Deep technical Insurance experience in managing commercial insurance products using data lead insight
• Experience managing data analysts is essential, along with working experience across Data Analytics solutions eg SAS, SQL, Python and visualization tools.
• Comprehensive knowledge of products, industry practices and governing legislation.
• Expert, strategic, tactical selling and relationship management capability
• Proven analytical and critical thinking abilities to evaluate complex alternatives, make confident judgements and develop innovative, sophisticated solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of communicating with audiences at all levels with clarity, impact and influence.

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 remote work options and workplace adjustments, with support for your work/life balance.
• 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 our culture

We care about everything that makes you, you. We believe in an equitable workplace that celebrates diversity and inclusion, where people of all genders, ages, religions, sexual orientations, and abilities are not only welcomed but valued for the perspectives and talents they bring to work.  We’re committed to fostering an environment where everyone can thrive, grow, and contribute their unique perspectives to our collective success and reach their fullest potential.

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