Senior Change Lead (Business Analysis)

Overview

In this leadership role, you guide the Commercial Business Analysis Practice, shaping capability and standards while delivering complex change. You’ll lead and coach analysts, aligning business needs with technology goals to enable informed investment decisions. Working with cross-functional stakeholders, you will frame strategic opportunities and ensure value, risk, and delivery implications are understood. This position blends people leadership with hands-on analysis to drive meaningful outcomes for customers and colleagues.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible benefits
• hybrid working
• annual performance related bonus
• contributory pension
• development days
• employee discounts (insurance products)

Responsibilities

• Shape and grow a high-performing BA community, setting standards and deploying talent where value is highest
• Lead, coach and develop Business Analysts to foster an engaged, collaborative environment
• Manage recruitment, onboarding, performance, coaching, talent development and succession planning
• Deliver Business Analysis in a Lead capacity across ideation, triage, discovery and delivery
• Guide analysis of complex opportunities to inform investment decisions with evidence, options, risk and value
• Provide technical leadership, assurance and coaching to promote consistent standards while enabling autonomy
• Partner with Product Managers, Product Owners, Delivery Leads, Architects and stakeholders to align initiatives with strategic objectives
• Promote BA excellence through best practice, communities of practice and continuous improvement
• Foster a high-performance, growth-minded culture focused on meaningful business value
• Model Allianz values and promote agile, collaborative ways of working

Key requirements

• Senior-level Business Analysis expertise with a track record leading complex business and technology change
• Experience shaping initiatives through ideation, triage, discovery, business case development and investment decisions
• Proven people leadership, coaching and capability development
• Excellent stakeholder management and adaptable communication across business, product and technology
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and challenging assumptions, scope and priorities
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery and BA’s role in product and transformation environments
• Balance of strategic thinking with hands-on analysis when dealing with complexity
• Experience in Financial Services, Commercial Insurance or regulated environments

• stakeholder management
• communication
• adaptability
• Business Analysis leadership
• Agile delivery
• ideation, triage, discovery

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