Business Manager
Company
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/1/2025
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Description
The purpose of this role is to act as the right-hand to the MD, providing high-level business & strategic support and advice to optimise the effectiveness of their role & delivery of their objectives.
This role is focused on business performance & strategy, maintaining oversight of overall AZP business to support the MD as required. The role will lead the delivery of key tasks and support the development of our business for the future, representing the interests of the ExCo, acting as a communication interface to various stakeholders both within the UK and the wider Allianz Group.
This is a hybrid role based out of our London Gracechurch St office.
Salary Information
Pay: Circa £61,000 per year.
Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.
About You
Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:
Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.
Diversity & Inclusion
At Allianz, we prioritize diversity and inclusion, demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.
We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.
We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.
Accessible Application for All
As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, for those meeting the essential skills for the role.
Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications.
[email protected]
For any inquiries or to submit your application, please contact: Daniel Leeming
Closing date: 8th July 2025
We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.
Join us - Let’s Care for Tomorrow.
74754 | Strategy | Professional | Allianz UK | Full-Time | Permanent
This role is focused on business performance & strategy, maintaining oversight of overall AZP business to support the MD as required. The role will lead the delivery of key tasks and support the development of our business for the future, representing the interests of the ExCo, acting as a communication interface to various stakeholders both within the UK and the wider Allianz Group.
This is a hybrid role based out of our London Gracechurch St office.
Salary Information
Pay: Circa £61,000 per year.
Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.
About You
- Maintain an oversight of key activities taking place in the business to help inform & prioritise the MD’s responsibilities and to support business performance reporting & oversight of objectives.
- Responsible for drafting the AZP MD report & any other business or performance reporting required where MD is the owner or author.
- Provide or co-ordinate briefing notes for the MD to ensure feels satisfactorily prepared & aware of any key issues.
- Manage the objective-setting and performance review process for MD and AZP LT; ensuring MD targets are cascaded to the team & fed into their own objectives (ensuring these are agreed in a timely manner at the start of each year.
- Tracking performance against objectives throughout the year and providing data for mid and end of year reviews.
- Responsible for target/performance report required on a monthly basis to check progress against MD objectives throughout the year. Highlighting any areas that may need additional action or escalation to drive results.
- Close focus on preparation for SD & PD, oversight of timescales & attendance to all related meetings to oversee packs, feedback & agreed actions.
- Involved in M&A discussions, and the due diligence/valuation of potential strategic targets
- Support with regulatory correspondence & requests for information as required.
- Oversight of SM&CR responsibilities and support to AZP LT with governance documents, changes to teams/role and oversight of the process for any application to the regulator.
- Responsible for ensuring current delegated authorities, statements of responsibility are in place & FCA reasonable steps requirements are met.
- Strong collaborator, with excellent communication skills and an ability to build relationships at all levels of the organisation.
- Excellent organisational, negotiation and influencing skills
- Ability to work in a fast-pace and demanding work environment
- Strong financial knowledge
- Structured and organized approach towards work, with a strong focus on attention to detail.
- Ability to multi task, balance a varied workload and prioritise effectively to meet tight deadlines.
- Proven experience analysing complex information and drawing appropriate conclusions, thinking creatively to further drive results
- High level researching and analytical skills
- Strong commercial awareness and knowledge of the UK Insurance Market.
- Ability to deliver presentations effectively and confidently.
- Leadership experience.
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly in Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
- Comfortable preparing reports and presentations.
- Continuing professional development, with experience working in the finance and/or insurance sector
- Proven track record of demonstrating effective planning, problem solving and analytical skills.
- Has a strong commercial awareness and knowledge of the UK Insurance Market.
- Experience of building and managing senior stakeholder relationships.
- Record of showing strong political awareness, flexibility in the face of shifting workloads, and using own initiative to ensure work is delivered beyond the role’s requirements.
- Experience of project management and delivering presentations effectively are important.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Copilot.
Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:
- Flexible buy/sell holiday options
- Hybrid working
- Annual performance related bonus
- Contributory pension scheme
- Development days
- A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
- Retail discounts
- Volunteering days
Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.
Diversity & Inclusion
At Allianz, we prioritize diversity and inclusion, demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.
We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.
We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.
Accessible Application for All
As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, for those meeting the essential skills for the role.
Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications.
[email protected]
For any inquiries or to submit your application, please contact: Daniel Leeming
Closing date: 8th July 2025
We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.
Join us - Let’s Care for Tomorrow.
74754 | Strategy | Professional | Allianz UK | Full-Time | Permanent
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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