Chapter Lead Product Ownership (m/f/d)

About the Job

As an Chapter Lead in the Workplace Area with a focus on Product Ownership, you will play a key leadership role in shaping and delivering innovative workplace solutions that enhance productivity and collaboration across Allianz Technology. You will lead and mentor a team of product owners, ensuring alignment with business goals, driving innovation, and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. This role requires a strategic mindset, strong leadership skills, and the ability to manage and develop a high-performing team while ensuring the successful delivery of workplace solutions.

 

This role offers the opportunity to lead a talented team, shape the future of workplace solutions at Allianz Technology, and make a meaningful impact on productivity and collaboration across the organization. 

 

What you do

 

Leadership and Team Development

 

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of product owners, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Build team capabilities to meet current and future challenges, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Act as a role model and provide guidance to ensure consistent application of product management best practices.

 

Innovation and Continuous Improvement

 

• Drive innovation in workplace solutions by exploring new technologies and methodologies to enhance product offerings.
• Implement and promote best practices in product management, ensuring efficient and effective product development processes.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in workplace solutions and processes.

 

Performance Monitoring and Reporting

 

• Define and establish metrics to measure product success and impact.
• Regularly review product performance, analyzing data to make informed, strategic decisions.
• Ensure alignment of product strategies with business objectives and stakeholder expectations.

 

What you bring

 

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, or a related field; a Master's degree is preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in product management, with a focus on workplace solutions or related areas.
• 3+ years of leadership experience, managing and developing high-performing teams.
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies and tools, with practical experience in agile environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and align cross-functional teams.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to execute tactically and deliver results.
• Proven ability to drive innovation and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
• IMPORTANT: This is not a Management/Director/Head-of-Department level position. Any profiles mismatching the required seniority level will not be considered.

 

What we offer

• 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 abroad.
• We 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 fostered.
• Flexible 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.

 

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 to run, optimize, transform, and innovate 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.

 

Find us at: www.linkedin.com/company/allianz-technology.

 

Commitment to Integrity, Fairness & Inclusion

 

Allianz Technology is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to fostering an inclusive work environment for everyone. We embrace individuals of all gender identities and expressions, sexual orientations, ethnicities, ages, nationalities, religions, disabilities, and philosophies of life. Ultimately, our greatest strength as a company lies in the unique skills, experiences, and backgrounds our employees contribute.

 

We therefore welcome applications regardless of race, 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.

 

To Recruitment Agencies:

 

Allianz Technology has an in-house recruitment team that sources great candidates directly. Therefore, Allianz Technology does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies or search firm recruiters.

 

When we do work with recruitment agencies, that engagement is formalized by a contract. Fees will only be paid when there is a contract in place. Without a contract in place, we will not accept invoices on unsolicited resumes, even if the candidate was ultimately employed by Allianz.

 

93774 | Operations | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Technology | Full-Time | Permanent