Steering & Performance Lead | Home & Digital Services (HDS)

Steering & Performance Lead | Home & Digital Services (HDS)

Shape the Future of Home Assistance Performance at Allianz Partners

At Allianz Partners, we are looking for an experienced Home & Digital Services (HDS) Steering & Performance Lead to drive business performance, profitability, and strategic execution across our global Home Assistance portfolio.

This is a highly visible international role for a commercially minded leader with strong financial, operational, and insurance expertise who thrives in complex environments and enjoys transforming underperforming businesses into high-performing operations.

You will work closely with regional and local leadership teams, including CEOs and functional stakeholders across Operations, Finance, Sales, Underwriting, and Performance Management, helping markets achieve their financial and operational objectives.

What You Do

• Drive performance improvement initiatives across underperforming Home markets and business units.
• Analyze financial and operational performance to identify risks, opportunities, and corrective actions.
• Develop and implement remediation plans in collaboration with local and regional leadership teams.
• Lead governance, reporting, and performance steering activities across the Home portfolio.
• Manage and monitor action plans to ensure delivery against financial targets and business plans.
• Coordinate internal and external cost optimization programs to increase competitiveness and profitability.
• Support Planning Dialogue (PD), budgeting, forecasting, and performance monitoring processes.
• Partner with stakeholders across functions to ensure alignment with Home strategic priorities.
• Share best practices and promote operational excellence across markets worldwide.
• Support the localization and successful execution of the global Home strategy.
• AI READINESS Work effectively in an environment shaped by artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, data analytics and cloud-based tools, using insights responsibly with our standards of data governance, security and ethical use.

What You Bring

Experience

• 10+ years of experience within insurance, assistance, mobility services, or related industries.
• Strong background in one or more of the following areas:
  • Home Assistance
  • Property Insurance
  • Underwriting
  • Operations
  • Sales & Distribution
  • Business Development
  • Market Management
• Proven experience managing business performance and P&L delivery.
• Experience working across international and matrix organizations.

Skills & Competencies

• Deep understanding of roadside assistance and/or motor insurance business models.
• Strong financial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, and performance management.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Strategic mindset combined with hands-on execution.
• Strong project and change management experience.
• Collaborative leadership style with the ability to work across cultures and geographies.
• Confident communicator capable of engaging senior leaders and executive stakeholders.

Education

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Insurance, Engineering, Marketing, or a related field.

How we Hire

Allianz Partners does not accept unsolicited CV’s or approaches from agencies. We only work with partners on our approved supplier list, under contract. Any unsolicited submission will not be considered.

What We Offer

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees is unique and has unique needs and ambitions, and we enjoy being a part of their journey.

We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged.

Caring for your health and wellbeing is a key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

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.