Role Description

Allianz has a new opportunity for a Commercial Business Owner, this is a hybrid role working from any of our UK Offices

Salary Circa £60,000

This is part of a growing team within the Commercial Strategy and Customer Experience division. Our purpose and goal are to drive strategic coherence and foster progressive change in the commercial business. This newly formed department offers an exciting opportunity to collaborate closely with colleagues across our organization. We strive to enhance customer centricity and implement strategic change while remaining agile in responding to business needs. 

As our Commercial Business Owner, you will ensure business and change initiatives are identified, assessed for value, and successfully delivered across Allianz Commercial; with a clear focus on customer and colleague outcomes. The Commercial Business Owner also creates a bridge between projects and implementation and typically focuses on stakeholder management and the delivery of change into BAU, including changes to business processes, systems and technology and job roles and responsibilities

Key Accountabilities

• Identifies, manages and co-ordinates improvement activity to ensure high levels of adoption and the realisation of the anticipate business benefits. 
• Analyses, identifies and where appropriate mitigates the operational impact of the planned change through measures such as; effective transition planning, ensuring the implementation is resourced/scheduled, and training and communications. Thus, ensuring successfully embedding new capability or processes within the business unit.  
• Supports the development of the roll out/implementation plans and supports the business to embed capability. 
• Support all change, helping to build all the requirements across the end-to-end business functions.  
• Works closely with the Product/Delivery teams during the design phase. Prior to launch, they validate that the service meets the expected customer/business outcomes. 
• ‘Gatekeepers’ of change requests - responsible for triaging change requests. 
• Provides business requirements and works closely with the LLT (Product Owners) during the design phase. Prior to launch, they validate that the service meets the expected business outcomes. 
• Systems Thinking - Involved in the work and ST interventions, providing support to stakeholder. 

Essential Skills

• Strong collaborator, with excellent communication skills and an ability to build relationships at all levels of the organisation.  
• Excellent organisational, negotiation and influencing skills 
• Structured and organized approach towards work, with a strong focus on attention to detail. 
• Ability to multitask, balance a varied workload and prioritise effectively to meet tight deadlines.  
• Proven experience analysing complex information and drawing appropriate conclusions, thinking creatively to further drive results. 
• High level researching and analytical skills. 
• Strong commercial awareness and knowledge of the UK Insurance Market.  
• Experience of working across different functions would be preferable.  
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly PowerPoint and Excel. 
• Experience of building and managing senior stakeholder relationships. 
• Experience of project management and delivering
• Record of showing strong political awareness, flexibility in the face of shifting workloads, and using own initiative to ensure work is delivered beyond the role’s requirements.  

What We Will Offer You

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:

• Flexible buy/sell holiday options
• Hybrid working.
• Annual performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• Development days
• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
• Retail discounts

Our Ways of Working

Do you need some flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen. 

Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements.

Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Allianz, we prioritize diversity and inclusion, demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.

We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.

We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.

Accessible Application for All

As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, for those meeting the essential skills for the role.

Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications.

Hr-recruitment@allianz.co.uk

For any inquiries or to submit your application, please contact: Daniel Leeming

Closing Date: 28th April 2025

We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.

Join us - Let’s Care for Tomorrow. 

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Join us - Let’s Care for Tomorrow.