We are looking for a Regional Head of Organizational Management, Asia, based in Singapore.

The Impact You Will Have
The Regional Head of Organizational Management, Asia drives organizational effectiveness, productivity, and simplification within the region by translating enterprise GOM frameworks into tangible business outcomes. The role acts as a strategic integrator, aligning regional priorities with global capabilities and ensuring adoption and impact. They are accountable for adoption and impact of the GOM model in the region, translates global methodologies into regional initiatives, prioritizes regional demand, integrates functional needs across the region and ensures regional leadership teams use global capabilities effectively. The regional head owns the outcome in the region and has orchestration authority i.e convenes functions, identified opportunities, drives adoption and escalates blockers and tailors within guardrails in alignment with the strategic goals and play a critical part in the company's pursuit of operational excellence by driving productivity at the highest levels. They must leverage GOM capabilities, methodologies, and specialist resources to drive regional transformation, simplification, and operating model effectiveness.

You will oversee a regional team, ensuring all contribute to the overarching vision of both the region and Global Organizational Management. The role requires a balance of strategic vision and practical implementation, demanding a hands-on approach to developing and governing global process taxonomies, improving core insurance delivery, and ensuring process oversight. Additionally, the Regional Head contributes to the development and refinement of the global target operating model, ensuring it aligns not only with regional goals but also with the company's global vision and strategic objectives. Furthermore, the regional head must foster collaboration across regions and with the Global Head to ensure consistency in process governance, global process taxonomies, and operational excellence initiatives. Through these efforts, the Regional Head of Organizational Management ensures that AZ Commercial is well-positioned to adapt to changing market conditions and maintains a competitive edge through efficient and effective organizational management.

Some of your specific responsibilities could include:
Regional Organizational Effectiveness

• Define and lead the regional agenda for productivity, simplification, and operating model improvement.
• Identify opportunities across functions (Underwriting, Claims, Operations, Finance, etc.).
• Align initiatives with regional business priorities and strategy.

Translation Application of Global Frameworks

• Apply GOM methodologies, standards, and toolkits within the regional context.
• Tailor enterprise frameworks pragmatically while remaining within defined guardrails.
• Ensure consistent use of enterprise approaches across the region.

Integration Orchestration Across Functions

• Act as a central integrator across regional leadership teams.
• Break silos and align cross-functional initiatives.
• Ensure end-to-end thinking in organizational and process improvements.

Mobilization of Global Capabilities

• Leverage GOM expertise (org design, automation, process optimization, rightshoring) to support regional initiatives.
• Broker access to specialist resources and ensure effective deployment.
• Balance regional demand with available global capacity..

Delivery Benefit Realization

• Drive execution of regional initiatives and ensure measurable outcomes.
• Track productivity and simplification benefits within the region.
• Ensure sustainable adoption of changes.

Feedback Continuous Improvement

• Reporting regional performance/impact back to GOM.
• Provide structured feedback to GOM on effectiveness of methodologies and frameworks.
• Identify gaps, improvement areas, and emerging regional needs and contribute to evolution of enterprise standards.

What You’ll Bring to the Role

Technical Skill:

• Analytical skills: break complex subjects into manageable pieces; determine status quo, business requirements, target and course of action.
• Project Management: from individual task management to ability to manage large complex projects.
• Change Management, including stakeholder management, change curve, communication.
• Consulting skills: relationship management, customer satisfaction, understand customer needs, build CBA Business Case, facilitation, consult business.

General Skill:

• Change Management
• Communication and Presentation
• Expert relationship building and negotiation skills
• Leadership decision making
• Inquiry skills, constructive feedback conflict resolution
• Cross-cultural and cross functional collaboration

Required Experience:

• Pragmatic problem-solving with focus on outcomes.
• Strong experience in transformation, operations, or organizational effectiveness.
• Strong orchestration and integration capability across functions
• Deep understanding of business operations and regional market dynamics.
• Cross-cultural and international work experience.
• Ability to translate strategy into execution .
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Mentoring and developing regional team members, fostering a high-performance culture, and ensuring the team is equipped with the skills needed to meet current and future challenges.
• Cultural awareness and the ability to foster an inclusive environment that respects regional diversity while aligning with global values.
• Work closely with other functions, such as IT, HR, and Finance, to ensure seamless integration of processes and alignment with broader organizational goals.

Education / Certifications:

• Bachelor degree in a related field
• Professional Training Qualification preferred, e.g. OPEX, Lean 6 Sigma, PRINCE II, MSP, ITIL, OPS Management

99905 | Operations | 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 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.

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