Project Manager - Operational Resilience

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Who We Are

Allianz is a global insurance company serving across 70 different countries, from the very first day you join our team you'll know that your contributions are valued. We offer world class learning and career development opportunities, celebrating an inclusive culture.

We have a 12 month Fixed Term Contract opportunity to join the Operational Resilience team as a Project Manager focussed on the European Union's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) requirements. This is a hybrid role combining working from our Guildford office (2 days per week) with working from home.

About the Role

You will work collaboratively with sponsors, stakeholders and those involved in the delivery of DORA in the business to ensure that regulatory commitments relating to DORA are entrenched across the business to meet 2025 requirements. You will lead the programme, role modelling our values, while partnering with your sponsors and senior stakeholders. You will have an agile mind-set and be an expert in your field and a servant leader, coaching and guiding colleagues to ensure delivery is value and outcome based. We'll expect you to lead by example, live and practice agile values and principles while putting our customers and value delivery at the heart of all you do.

About You

Experience and Skills

• Experience delivering successful implementation of activities to meet regulatory requirements
• Experience within various industries but specifically Financial Services that have been subject to operational resilience regulated requirements.
• Experience within project and change delivery, having delivered a variety of projects or programmes of different types and sizes
• Excellent understanding of change management and implementing people, process and systems change
• Act as a leader and role model fostering excellent team spirit in the team, providing vision and purpose for the delivery and aligning/defining roles and responsibilities if needed.
• Forward thinking with experience in planning, and the ability to understand and manage risk proactively
• Demonstrative experience of problem solving and removing impediments
• Exemplary stakeholder management with previous experience of effectively managing stakeholders up to and including Board
• Demonstratable experience of writing clear and precise Board level papers
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and negotiate at all levels
• Have a Growth Mind-set with process improvement ability, focused on continuous improvement
• Project, Agile or Change management qualifications would be an advantage but not essential

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, including, retail discounts, discounted insurance cover and our newly launched ElectriX car purchase scheme, 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:

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Annual company and performance-based bonus
• Generous pension contributions and Life Cover up to 4 x salary
• Career development - including our mentoring scheme, we'll provide you with the tools to develop with us, so you can grow your career, while building the skills needed for whatever the future brings.

Our Ways of WorkingDo 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. Our Purpose and ValuesWe secure your future Be Brave | With Heart | Everyone Counts | Inspiring Trust

Our purpose and values are more than just words on a website - they are the why and how of Allianz. They influence everything we do and guide us how to do it. Created by our people, for our people, they shape our culture, bring us together, and inspire us to be the best. Building an inclusive culture for us all to succeed. Diversity & InclusionAt Allianz, we value diversity and inclusion and back this up with our accreditations. Allianz is EDGE certified for gender inclusion, members of the Women in Finance Charter, a Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion members, signatories of Business in the Community's Race at Work Charter, and an Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.We recognise the strength of neurodiversity in the workplace, and the far-reaching benefits of embracing a spectrum of thinking styles and innovative capabilities. We proudly welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, and can offer tailored adjustments to remove barriers and set you up for success in your career.We encourage our people to advocate for what they need, we listen, and we act - this could include providing assistive technology, ergonomic specialist equipment, mentoring and coaching, or flexibility in the way you work, among a wide range other adjustments. Join us - Let's Care for Tomorrow.

50420 | Operations | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz UK | Full-Time | Temporary