IT Project Manager

at  Allianz

EXPERIENCE

• A relevant 3rd level qualification, with 5+years level experience in Project Management
• Project Management qualification preferred e.g., Prince, PMP
• Experience in delivery of large scale IT strategic and transformation projects using Agile methodology
• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies
• Strong knowledge of IT lifecycle, including familiarity with concepts, practices and procedures
• Experience of dealing with key stakeholders and suppliers
• Experience operating within an outsourcing model
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to interpret the audience and communicate accordingly
• Ability to collaborate and work effectively with cross functional teams, including business teams and outsourcing partners
• Strong organisational, analytical and problem solving skills; including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills

DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE

• A broad experience across a variety of architecture domains (application, data, integration, or infrastructure)
• Experience preparing and presenting to senior business and IT management teams
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, including O365 Teams and Sharepoint
• Experience in Insurance / Financial services or other heavily regulated environments
  56249 | Project Management | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Ireland | Full-Time | Permanent
  Allianz Group 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 at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in. We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation. Great to have you on board. Let’s care for tomorrow.
  Job ID 56249

• Manage the IT projects lifecycle - from ideation, business requirement, solution assessment, vendor appraisal, procurement, design, build, test, commission and operate
• Deliver and manage large scale transformation programmes and projects on time, cost and quality targets within appropriate governance frameworks
• Support the project identification, sizing and prioritisation process to ensure projects are correctly scoped and with clear and measurable commercial benefits
• Develop and review cost benefit analyses ensuring sufficient resources to deliver on project priorities
• Identify and coordinate project members; lead these cross-functional project teams to develop program approach, plans, timeline and budget
• Leading project risks, issues, dependencies, and interfaces to ensure potential problems are identified and controlled
• Establishing Project Governance ensuring timely status reporting to all stakeholders and IT PMO
• Owning the development and implementation of benefits realisation strategies and processes to ensure that expected business benefits are assigned, measured, and tracked
• Ensuring the effectiveness and efficiency of the team, including delivery
• Manage project delivery against schedule, budget, and quality
• Create strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders across the business, Product Management, Risk Management, IT Security, Compliance and Allianz Technology
• Assess capability and availability of required Allianz Technology IT skills and resources to meet Business demand
• Communicate and collaborate across many teams within the company and external providers
• Identify Information Risks arising in IT Projects and ensure hand-over into Information Risk Management