Job Specifications
This job is with Allianz Commercial, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.
Join us now as Business Process Manager - Contract Lifecycle in London within the Procurement Excellence & Operations team. As part of the Procurement Excellence & Operations team, you will play a pivotal role in reshaping how Procurement operates in a digitally connected, AI-enabled environment. Your focus will be on designing and optimizing processes, governance frameworks, and digital tools that leverage orchestration layers to unify workflows across functions and systems. A key responsibility includes establishing advanced Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) capabilities and orchestrated cross-functional workflows that span Legal, Third-Party Risk, and Technology teams. Your work ensures that financial, regulatory, and business-specific requirements are seamlessly embedded and actively governed throughout the contract and supplier value chain. In your role, you act as key functional coordinator and bridge between multiple teams, incl. Legal, Third-Party Risk and Technology.
What You Will Do
System Implementation: Lead the design and deployment of an advanced Contract Lifecycle Management ecosystem, incl. intelligent workflows, orchestration layers, and AI-powered automation. Translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure seamless integration with procurement platforms.
Contract Intelligence: Establish frameworks to effectively manage complex supplier relationships incl. outsourcing arrangements. Ensure country specific regulatory requirements are embedded and enforced in the end-to-end value chain. Assess and incorporate local business and legal requirements.
Process Excellence: Drive end-to-end process optimization across the Procurement value chain. Focus on enhancing compliance, reducing cycle times, and enabling data-driven decision-making.
Change Management: Independently lead cross-functional transformation initiatives. Act as digital procurement expert guiding global teams through new processes and ensure adoption of next-gen tools across the organization.
What You Bring
University Degree
Minimum 5 years of relevant experience within consulting, process excellence, procurement, or legal operations
Preferably experience with CLM application implementation projects, covering activities of process design, system configuration, testing, training and change management.
Experience with business process improvement methodologies
Knowledge of typical contract structures and governance frameworks
Self-starter, solution orientated with a high level of autonomy and proactivity
Comfortable navigating in an ambiguous and fast paced environment
Analytical skills and structured problem-solving ability
Ability to use Generative AI with knowledge of Microsoft CoPilot
What We Offer
We empower our employees by ensuring flexible work arrangements that maintain a balance between performance, productivity, career development and personal priorities (e.g., hybrid model/ flexible working hours)
Securing your future: Access to company pension/savings plans
Shared success: Company share purchasing plan
Support for what matters: Mental health and wellbeing programs
Investments in your career: Career opportunities within the entire Allianz Group
Investments in your skills: Comprehensive learning and development offerings, including certifications and professional qualifications
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About Allianz Global Investors
Allianz Global Investors is a leading active asset manager, managing assets for individuals, families, and institutions worldwide. Our goal is to actively shape the future of investing for all our clients, wherever their location and whatever their objectives.
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 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.
If you feel inspired to promote the active asset management experience, this is the place for you. Join our international, technology-enabled, and agile environme
About the Company
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