As Head of Enterprise Transformation Management Office (ETMO) Planning, you will play a critical role in creating, owning, and maintaining (with the business) a consolidated and integrated enterprise Programme plan. This will involve working closely with stakeholders in Allianz UK, our wider Group, and external partners at senior levels. You will provide clarity on the overall plan status, challenge deviations from the critical path, and ensure clear actions are established and communicated to deliver on plan. The plan will form an integral part of Programme reporting and governance, highlighting risks, issues, and dependencies at all levels of detail to various stakeholder groups.
Key Accountabilities:
* Establishing the Planning Ways of Working across an existing Portfolio of Major Programmes (Mainly Waterfall) and the rest of the UK Portfolio (Mainly Agile).
* Develop the existing Tool Set (Mainly Jira and Confluence) to enable visibility and management of the UK Enterprise Portfolio.
* Creating and managing the UK Transformation Integrated Programme Plan, including all UK workstreams and alignment with Global plans and external partners where necessary.
* Liaising with stakeholders to ensure adherence to their workstream plans, which will feed into the Integrated Programme Plan.
* Tracking deliveries across the various Programme workstreams to identify and communicate impacts of plan changes on the critical delivery path, including financial and resourcing impacts that deviate from the original plan.
* Leveraging information in Jira (and other systems) to monitor progress against plan and identify risks or issues associated with achieving, managing stakeholders to address these.
* Identifying, managing, and tracking programme-wide dependencies, assumptions, and plan risks, providing proactive mitigation, and escalating as required with path to green plans.
* Creating plans in JIRA to fit various tracking and reporting needs, ensuring the format of the plan is appropriate for a broad variety of stakeholders (e.g., Steering Committees, Board Papers).
* Supporting the creation of a benefits realisation plan aligned to core delivery plan timelines.
* Challenging and influencing broad stakeholder groups across the UK and wider Programme.
* Leading other members within the Programme Planning team where applicable, including line management of Planning specialists and the Resource Demand Manager.
* Working closely with the rest of the team to deliver collective eTMO outcomes and ensure plan priorities are clearly articulated and well understood by all.
Technical Skills:
* Experienced in the use of Jira and Confluence / other PPM systems / SharePoint / Microsoft BI.
* Project Management technical skills including organisation, governance, estimation, planning, scheduling, tracking, resource management, reporting, and risk/issue management.
* Proficient in change management skills including communications and the ability to effectively manage stakeholders from junior to senior levels.
* Proficient in Project Management & Office tools such as MS Office Suite, MS Project, and MS Excel.
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. 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.
* Annual performance-related bonus.
* Contributory pension scheme.
* A discount of up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home, and pet.
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 ABI's 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.
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