Portfolio Manager

At Allianz, we care for all the things that make you, you. For feeling like you belong. For a place where learning never stops. For growing new skills and opening up exciting possibilities. For your curiosity to thrive and help transform an industry. And when life twists, there's flexibility for balance and the support you need. We know that flexible work comes in different forms, that's why we're embracing hybrid teams - enabling employees to maintain a balance of working both in the office and remote, supporting the needs of both the business and individual. Let's care for tomorrow. For giving our customers the best possible solutions **Would you like the freedom to try new things** **Looking for the space to do things differently** Reporting to the Strategic Alliance Manager in our Consumer Division in Financial Institutions, the Portfolio Manager is a role that has been newly created, following a large, strategic acquistion. The purpose is to support the Strategic Alliance Manager in a market facing capacity, as well as optimise growth and profitability outcomes for the portfolio encompassing customer experience, strategic program delivery, acuisition across all channels, pricing and claims to effectively respond to the needs of business partners. **Responsibilties in the role**: - Execute proactive portfolio management and analysis to identify effective strategies and solutions aimed at improving client profitability. - Develop, implement and review cycle management plans and agree on performance objectives and strategies. - Provide performance reporting, highlight emerging trends and identify improvement strategies. - Lead engagement and delivery with internal and external stakeholders to support the portfolio management. - Identify and develop new business opportunities within existing portfolio and existing relationships. - Lead key portfolio initiatives and projects. - Oversee thesupervision and monitoring of third party distribution to ensure compliance. **To be successful you'll need**: - Considerable prior experience within the General Insurance industry and end-to-end delivery of projects, with a strong track record in sales and distribution of financial services products - Track record in demonstrating commercial acumen by using insights related to the market, opportunities, risks and competitors within the insurance industry as well as the dynamic levers that influence these factors. - Adept at proactively building and maintaining professional relationships and networks to enhance industry positioning, exchange knowledge and elicit beneficial outcomes. - Demonstrates enthusiasm and ability to optimise business value to customers through innovation, delivering high quality services and positive customer experiences to sustain and enhance the customer base. - Demonstrated ability to lead, coach and empower people. - Demonstrates the ability to deliver engaging and impactful presentations. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of communicating with audiences at all levels with clarity, impact and influence. - Proven strategic sales ability including effective business planning, negotiation skills, the ability to influence and persuade. **What you'll gain**: You'll be working with our largest Financial Institutions Partner and newest, high growth acquisition, where you'll have exposure up the line, to the most senior people within the organisation. This will be a fairly autonomous role with broad scope and a huge amount of room for innovation and to think differently, where you'll have the ability to significantly influence strategy and outcomes of the account. Feel supported to give something a go - try different things, take on new responsibilities and explore opportunities. You'll be given the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on how we do things **About us** Allianz is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us. We do this through delivering a great customer experience that is the result of appreciating each other every single day, showing heart by really listening and seeing things from the perspective of others by always asking, "how can I help?". Allianz is committed to enabling a culture where inclusion is embedded, everyone belongs and new ideas are embraced. We welcome and value talent from all backgrounds, experiences and ways of working Please advise us if you require any reasonable adjustments to fully participate in the recruitment process or perform the requirements of the role. As a requirement of your role, it may be necessary for you attend the workplace from time to time. In accordance with our COVID-19 vaccination requ