Senior Executive Assistant

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Let's care for tomorrow.

Your ambitions. Your dreams. Your tomorrow

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

We are looking for a Senior Executive Assistant, based in Munich.

Your Team

Our team represents a global function, covering, among others, insurance operations, IT, Transformation, and Security for Allianz Commercial. We're committed to delivering success for our immediate teams as well as the wider Allianz network. Working together helps set the benchmark, delivering consistent strong results through turbulent market cycles.

Your direct team will be located globally, predominantly in Germany, but you'll be working with Operations teams across the world. We're a culturally diverse team focused on developing people, delivering on our ESG commitments, and driving actionable change across the industry.We're looking for those keen to drive themselves and others at pace to achieve market leading results.

The Impact You Will Have

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, Allianz Commercial, and working with the existing COO Office team you will join the team as an Executive Assistant. Contributing to key projects within the company, you will be personally and professionally challenged through direct participation in decision-making processes and proximity to decision-makers. The role is multifaceted and involves wearing several hats to ensure that a wide variety of tasks are accomplished. It offers the unique opportunity for fast-track personal development.

Some Of Your Specific Responsibilities Could Include

• Independently and actively support the Chief Operating Officer and the COO team
• Support oversight and direction for both COO strategic topics, AZ Commercial, and BMP Commercial
• Steer challenging projects and support COO to achieve delivery outcomes
• Steer regular team and function meeting preparation and follow-ups, including pre-screening and challenging of documents, preparation of the Operations contribution, and follow-up of actions
• Prepare and follow up of meetings and events where the Chief Operating Officer is involved, including events within Allianz Group, worker's council meetings, client meetings, and internal meetings with other Global Heads.
• Be an interface between the COO and the rest of the COO, as well as drive COO contributions to Allianz Commercial deliverables
• Support COO with Community Engagements across COO ELT, COO Community, BMP Community, GRACE and Sustainability
• Steer and coordinate strategic projects, initiatives, and workstreams and participate in content-related topics including Allianz Commercial
• Obtain and analyze key business data, supporting decision-making across COO, driving Project initiatives and steering/planning cycles
  
  

What You'll Bring To The Role

• At least 2-5 years of experience in the insurance sector in areas such as business administration, project management, operations
• Proven experience analyzing complex information and drawing appropriate conclusions
• Positive and solution-oriented attitude in challenging environment
• Ideally be familiar with Allianz Commercial and our stakeholders to represent the COO
• Good project management skills: initiating, planning, and managing projects with regard to time, budget, quality, scope, and resources
• Excellent communicator to a variety of stakeholders including senior management; clearly and effectively expressing messages in various formats; able to effectively convey messages visually
• Excellent prioritization skills: Ability to filter information, effectively use of own resources, and handling of competing priorities under tight deadlines
• Master coordinator of managing across a complex suite of topics - including regular checkpoints of SD, PD, OpsIT, and conferences, as well as regular updates on major goals
• Excellence with PowerPoint and other MS Office capabilities
• Experience in working with intercultural teams in an international and dynamic environment
• Fluent in English as a must, any other language advantageous
  
  

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.

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.