Principal Business Analyst

Let’s care for tomorrow.

Your ambitions. Your dreams. Your tomorrow

Whether it’s aircraft, international business or offshore wind parks, Allianz Commercial has an extensive range of risks covered when it comes to protecting businesses.

We are looking for a Principal Business Analyst, based in Wallisellen, Zurich.

Your Team

The Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) line of business of Allianz Commercial creates innovative tailored structured insurance, captive reinsurance, and other non-traditional risk management solutions for a wide range of corporate and financial clients globally. We specialize in helping our customers mitigate their most complex risks with bespoke multi-year and multi-line agreements covering a broad range of risks, leveraging our expertise in alternative risk transfer and the global capabilities of the Allianz Group.

The Impact You Will Have

You will drive continuous improvement of Line of Business (LoB) processes by collaborating with relevant functional areas to review current processes, design, and implement necessary improvements.

You will identify and implement the most beneficial and cost-effective solutions to enhance ART LoB's organization, value chain, harmonization of business processes, applications, and employees' technical skills. This includes catering to both global and local needs to build a highly effective and efficient organization that delivers profitable results to clients. You will also align with and leverage the skills, processes, and knowledge of the wider Allianz Commercial and Allianz Group to ensure effective application for ART LoB.

Some of your specific responsibilities could include:

• Deliver analysis, consultancy, and training to enhance global Allianz Commercial´s business operations in line with board-approved projects and strategic priorities.

• Ensure timely and budget-compliant delivery of high-quality work by understanding customer needs and employing a methodical approach.

• Identify ART LoB business improvement opportunities in alignment with business priorities, focusing on organization, processes, capabilities, and IT applications.

• Create and support project proposals, including cost-benefit analysis, work package definitions, and resource planning.

• Ensure adherence to global standards and guiding principles in all projects and initiatives.

• Compile and share best practices across ART LoB, using various communication methods like presentations and workshops.

• Champion methods such as Lean, Six Sigma, and OPEX; act as a coach and sparring partner for management and team members.

What You’ll Bring to the Role

• Extensive experience in project management, the domain of practice of the role and the insurance industry domain.

• Cross-cultural and international work experience

• Business skills: Break down complex subjects; determine status quo, business requirements, and target course of action.

• Change Management skills: including stakeholder management, change curve, and communication.

• Consulting skills: relationship management, customer satisfaction and understanding customer needs.

• Leadership and decision making skills

• Fluent English skills, any other languages advantageous

54846 | Project Management | Management | Allianz Commercial | Full-Time | Permanent

What’s in it for you?

Let’s care about everything that makes you, you

We are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong. We offer a hybrid working model, which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working. Please feel free to discuss flexible working arrangements with us.

Let’s care for your financial wellbeing

We believe in rewarding performance with a great compensation and benefits package (details vary by location), including a generous bonus scheme and pension.

Let’s care for your opportunities to progress

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 fostered.

Let’s care for life’s twists and turns

From our support for flexible working, health and wellbeing (including private healthcare and generous parental leave benefits), to helping people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach. We've got your back.

Let’s care for our society and our planet

With opportunities to be engaged in shaping a future that is safe, inclusive and sustainable, we care for the tomorrows of our people, our industry and our clients.

Care to join us?

Allianz Commercial is the Allianz Group brand serving the world’s largest consumer brands and major industry players through to family-owned enterprises forming the backbone of nations’ economies. We bring together the corporate multinational business of Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty and the commercial business of national Allianz Property & Casualty entities and provide both traditional and alternative risk transfer solutions, outstanding risk consulting and Multinational services as well as seamless claims handling.

As a key strategic player in the Allianz Group network, Allianz Commercial is present in over 200 countries and in 2022 generated more than €19 billion gross premium.

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Allianz is an equal opportunity employer, and therefore welcomes applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic. Diversity of thinking is an important part of our culture.

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