AI Engagement Manager_3195
- Guildford, United Kingdom
Posted 6 days ago
About the role
About the Job
As an AI Engagement Manager, you serve as the delivery interface between our AI Factory and Allianz Operating Entities (OEs). Partnering closely with Heads of IT (HoITs), Account Managers, and Local/Global service teams, you translate OE pain points into fundable delivery engagements and steer multiple projects in parallel. You proactively shape and secure demand by making AI Factory capabilities visible early, matching Minimum Viable Solutions (MVS) and reusable assets to real problems, and converting these into funded engagements before OEs look externally.
What you do
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.
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 centers, 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.
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.
105266 | IT Tech Engineering | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Technology | 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.
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 matter, 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.
As an AI Engagement Manager, you serve as the delivery interface between our AI Factory and Allianz Operating Entities (OEs). Partnering closely with Heads of IT (HoITs), Account Managers, and Local/Global service teams, you translate OE pain points into fundable delivery engagements and steer multiple projects in parallel. You proactively shape and secure demand by making AI Factory capabilities visible early, matching Minimum Viable Solutions (MVS) and reusable assets to real problems, and converting these into funded engagements before OEs look externally.
What you do
- As the primary AI delivery interface for assigned OEs, you partner closely with HoITs, Account Managers, and Local/Global service teams to shape and execute demand.
- Qualify shape OE/Group pain points into deliverable project charters, roadmaps, and business cases; converting qualified opportunities into funded engagements.
- Orchestrate multiple AI Factory engagements in parallel, transferring patterns, learnings, and reusable components (MVS reuse) across OEs.
- Ensure AI Factory capabilities are visible early through discovery workshops, value hypothesis mapping, and reuse assessments to accelerate time-to-value.
- Define right-sized deliverables and milestones; cut or adjust scope pragmatically to protect value, timelines, and budget.
- Partner with Forward Deployed Engineers to align backlog, delivery plan, risks, and dependencies; remove blockers and escalate with facts and options.
- Manage stakeholder communications and expectations across OE leadership, HoITs and service owners; ensure alignment from discovery to go-live.
- Own the build-to-run handover (including support models, SLAs/OLAs, runbooks, MLOps/monitoring) and maintain the OE relationship post go-live.
- Proven experience in steering IT delivery or IT programs and translating business problems into delivered software in large, matrix organizations ideally in insurance or other regulated environments. Knowledge of Allianz Group Allianz Technology is a plus.
- Solid communication and stakeholder management with ability to influence and guide leadership through technical and decision making conversations through strategic roadmaps, milestones and refined scope of work when required.
- Experienced in demand shaping and delivery conversion: discovery, value hypothesis definition, scoping, solution framing, and turning opportunities into funded work (SoW/proposals).
- Advanced stakeholder management and communication skills across OE/HoIT leadership, technical teams, and security/compliance; ability to own relationships beyond delivery and into run.
- Entrepreneurial mindset, comfortable with ambiguity, taking ownership, driving clarity in build-up environment to turn ideas into reality.
- A degree in business, management, technology, IT or related field.
- Fluent in English
- Solid knowledge of AI technologies, agentic principles and their practical use
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.
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 centers, 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.
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.
105266 | IT Tech Engineering | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Technology | 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.
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 matter, 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.