Lead Project Management

Descripción

The Chapter Lead — Project Management is responsible for leading and managing a large project management pool of approximately 50 FTE within the CIO unit of the CTO area of Allianz Partners. This strategic leadership role oversees the delivery of IT projects across the organization, ensuring alignment with business objectives and IT transformation initiatives.

Operating within a fully agile demand and delivery model, the Chapter Lead — Project Management ensures optimal allocation of project managers based on varying IT project needs. This role serves as the bridge between the Lines of Business and IT, ensuring strategic planning and operational execution, fostering excellence in project delivery, iterative improvements, and team capability development.

What you will do

STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP & VISION

• Define and implement the strategic direction for the PM function within CTO
• Champion best practices in project management and agile methodologies
• Represent the PM function in senior leadership forums and drive continuous improvement

PEOPLE LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT

• Lead, inspire, and develop a large team of project managers
• Build a high-performing PM community with clear career paths and development opportunities
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning
• Drive succession planning and talent retention

AGILE DEMAND & DELIVERY MODEL

• Implement and optimize an agile demand and delivery model for PM resource allocation
• Manage resource utilization, balancing demand and capacity across IT projects
• Establish governance for resource allocation, prioritization, and escalation
• Enable flexible, scalable resource deployment across multiple work streams

PORTFOLIO & PROJECT DELIVERY

• Oversee IT project delivery, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to quality standards in close alignment with the IT PPM function
• Establish and maintain project management governance frameworks, standards, and best practices
• Monitor project health, risks, and issues; enable transparent stakeholder reporting

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT & RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

• Build and maintain strong relationships with CxO stakeholders, business leaders, and delivery partners
• Partner with IT delivery teams, architecture, operations, and manage external vendor relationships
• Act as a trusted advisor on project delivery matters

GOVERNANCE, STANDARDS & PROCESS EXCELLENCE

• Define, implement, and maintain PM standards, methodologies, and governance frameworks
• Drive adoption of tools, templates, and best practices across the PM community
• Manage change control, risk management, and issue resolution processes

FINANCIAL & BUDGET MANAGEMENT

• Manage the PM function budget and oversee project financials across projects
• Provide financial reporting and forecasting; optimize resource costs
• Support business case development and benefits realization tracking

TRANSFORMATION & CHANGE LEADERSHIP

• Champion organizational change and transformation initiatives
• Drive cultural change toward agile, collaborative ways of working
• Lead adoption of new technologies, tools, and delivery approaches

What you will bring

• Multi-year experience in project/programme management, including at least 5+ years leading large PM teams
• Proven ability in demand management, benefit realisation, budget tracking, and IT cost management
• Proven experience implementing agile at scale (SAFe, LeSS, or similar frameworks) and leading organizational transformation
• Proven ability to manage large resource pools and optimize capacity allocation across multiple projects/programmes
• Experience managing IT project governance and standards; strong financial acumen, including managing multi-million budgets, forecasting, cost optimization, and benefits realization

What we offer

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey. We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

Note

Having different strengths, experiences, perspectives and approaches is an integral part of Allianz‘ company culture. One means to achieve this is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company expects from its employees a general openness and a high motivation to regularly change positions and collect experiences across Allianz Group.