Senior Project Manager (project management )_3056 at Allianz | Jobyssey

Overall Objectives of Job:

We are seeking an experienced professional to serve as the central governance and coordination function for the BMP transformation program across Belgium and the Netherlands. Reporting to the Head of Operations & Strategy, ensures structured, aligned delivery across all BMP initiatives — driving program governance and controlling, maintaining a single portfolio overview, and enforcing standardized processes, tools, and reporting. It supports budget tracking, KPI monitoring, and risk and issue management with timely escalation; manages stakeholders across Allianz Technology Benelux and the global BMP program; and coordinates external partners and vendors. It also champions AI-augmented, data-driven ways of working to sharpen reporting and decision-making.

Qualifications & Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field; a project/program management certification is preferred.
8–10 years of overall experience in project, program, or portfolio management, with 4–6 years in a project governance or program governance/controlling role within large-scale transformation programs.
Proven experience establishing and running program governance, portfolio reporting, and standardized project governance processes, tools, and templates across multiple workstreams or geographies.
Strong command of budget tracking, financial controlling, KPI monitoring, and risk and issue management, with a track record of transparent and timely escalation.
Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience bridging multiple departments and aligning local delivery with a global program, including coordination of external partners and vendors.
Proficiency with project governance and portfolio management tooling (e.g. MS Project, Planview, Clarity, Jira) and advanced reporting and dashboarding (e.g. Power BI).
Familiarity with AI-enabled and GenAI-augmented ways of working — using AI tools for automated reporting, portfolio analytics, and data-driven decision-making — with awareness of responsible-AI and data-governance practices.
Experience working in international, matrixed environments, ideally within financial services or insurance; exposure to the Benelux region is an advantage.

Role & Responsibilities

Drive program governance and controlling across all BMP-related initiatives, ensuring structured delivery and alignment with the global BMP program.
Maintain a comprehensive portfolio overview of all BMP activities, tracking status, milestones, dependencies, and interdependencies across Belgium and the Netherlands.
Establish and maintain standardized processes, tools, templates, and reporting to ensure consistency and quality across all initiatives.
Support budget tracking and financial controlling, monitoring spend against plan and flagging variances early.
Define and monitor KPIs and program metrics, providing transparent, data-driven status reporting to leadership and the global program.
Lead risk and issue management — maintaining logs, driving mitigation actions, and ensuring timely escalation where needed.
Act as a central point for stakeholder management, bridging the different departments within Allianz Technology Benelux and aligning with the global BMP program.
Coordinate with external partners and vendors to ensure smooth, on-time delivery of transformation activities.
Prepare and facilitate steering committees, governance forums, and program reviews, capturing decisions and tracking follow-up actions.
Apply AI-enabled and GenAI tools to automate reporting, surface portfolio insights, and strengthen data-driven decision-making across the program.

Key Result Areas

Structured, on-track delivery of BMP initiatives against agreed governance, milestones, and quality standards.
Accurate, timely portfolio reporting that provides a single, reliable source of truth for all BMP activities.
Effective budget tracking and KPI monitoring, with transparent and actionable insights for leadership.
Proactive risk and issue management — early identification and timely escalation, with minimal unmanaged surprises.
Strong stakeholder alignment across Allianz Technology Benelux, the global BMP program, and external partners and vendors.
Consistent adoption of standardized PROJECT GOVERANCE processes, tools, and reporting across all initiatives.
Measurable efficiency gains from AI-augmented reporting and data-driven decision-making.

Good to have :

Having a basic understanding or exposure to AI tools would be a plus.
Familiarity with basic AI tools is considered an advantage.
Basic knowledge or experience with AI tools will be beneficial.
Exposure to AI tools, even at a basic level, is a value-add.
A fundamental grasp of AI tools will be an added benefit.

Your benefits:We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroadWe believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location)From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fosteredFlexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach
What We Offer
About Allianz Technology
With its headquarters in Munich, Germany, Allianz Technology is Allianz's global IT service provider and delivers IT solutions that drive the group's digitalization. With more than 11,000 employees in over 20 countries around the world, Allianz Technology is tasked with running, optimizing, transforming, and innovating the infrastructure, applications, and services together with Allianz companies to co-create the best customer experience. We service the entire spectrum of digitalization – from one of the industry's largest IT infrastructure projects that spans data centres, networks, and security, to application platforms ranging from workplace services to digital interaction. In short: We deliver comprehensive end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age. We are the backbone of Allianz.
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