CUO Program & Agile Management Office Specialist Full Time NEW

Your Team

Our team is committed to enabling effective, transparent, and agile delivery of global underwriting and product transformation initiatives. Positioned within the CUO Office, we act as a central coordination hub, bringing together governance, delivery orchestration, and stakeholder alignment across regions and functions. The team works closely with senior leadership to ensure initiatives are executed consistently, with strong controls, clear communication, and a focus on continuous improvement.

The Impact You Will Have

Reporting to the Global Head of Underwriting Transformation, you will join the CUO Office to play a key role in strengthening project and agile governance across global initiatives. You will help ensure that transformation programs are delivered with rigor, transparency, and consistency by supporting governance frameworks, coordinating execution activities, and enabling effective collaboration across regions, functions, and vendors.

Some Of Your Specific Responsibilities Could Include

• Supporting the implementation and continuous improvement of project and agile governance frameworks (waterfall and agile).
• Tracking portfolio health, dependencies, risks, and RAG status across global initiatives.
• Coordinating day‑to‑day activities for PMO FTCs and third‑party vendors under guidance from senior leadership.
• Facilitating onboarding, quality control, and documentation standards for delivery roles (PMs, BAs, delivery managers).
• Supporting stakeholder engagement through mapping, communication plans, and meeting cadences across regions.
• Coordinating regional calendars, releases, go‑lives, cutover activities, and hypercare periods.
• Ensuring consistent use of tooling standards, ALM conventions, and audit‑ready documentation repositories.
• Supporting vendor and SaaS governance, including SOW tracking, SLAs, renewals, and action follow‑ups.
• Maintaining compliance checklists and coordinating audit responses with Security, Legal, and vendors.

What You’ll Bring To The Role

• Strong experience in project, portfolio, and governance management within complex, global environments.
• Solid understanding of underwriting processes and IT‑enabled transformation initiatives.
• Proven ability to work across cultures, regions, and time zones with executive‑level stakeholders.
• High analytical rigor with exceptional attention to detail in reporting, documentation, and financial tracking.
• Hands‑on experience with both agile and waterfall delivery methodologies.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to balance strategic oversight and operational execution.
• Experience coordinating vendors, SaaS providers, and third‑party delivery partners.
• A proactive, adaptable mindset with the ability to manage ambiguity and changing priorities.
• The ability to ensure ethical AI practices and stay updated with emerging AI technologies will be key to maintaining a competitive advantage.

97332 | Finance & Accounting | Professional | 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 center of expertise of Allianz Group, insuring mid-sized businesses, large enterprises, and special risks. Our customers include top consumer brands, financial institutions, industry leaders, the global aviation and shipping industries, as well as family-owned and medium-enterprises. We also cover unique risks such as offshore wind farms, infrastructure projects and film productions. Our clients trust us to provide a wide range of traditional and alternative risk transfer solutions, outstanding risk consulting and multinational services, and seamless claims handling. Allianz Commercial helps customers to prepare for what’s ahead.

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At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matters, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

Join us. Let’s care for tomorrow.

People With Disabilities

We want to give all our candidates the best opportunity to succeed.  If you need any adjustments to be made during the application and selection process, please email agcsglobalcareers@allianz.com

Recruitment Agencies: 

Allianz Commercial has an in-house recruitment team, which focuses on sourcing great candidates directly.  Allianz Commercial does not accept unsolicited resumes from agency or search firm recruiters.  Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired.  When we do use agencies, we have a PSL in place, so please do not contact managers directly. Failure to comply could/may result in the disqualification of the candidates and/or the termination of our contract and/or fees not being paid.