Chief Transformation Officer Benelux

What We Offer

• An executive leadership role with direct reporting to the Regional CEO and real strategic influence over the future of Allianz Benelux
• The opportunity to lead one of the most ambitious transformation programs in the Allianz Group – shaping the operating model, implementing AI, technology platforms, and culture of a major regional insurer
• Hybrid working model combining office presence across Belgium and the Netherlands with flexibility for remote work
• Competitive executive compensation package including performance-based bonus and long-term incentive elements
• Company pension scheme aligned with local Benelux market standards
• Access to Allianz University and Group-wide leadership development programs, including international mobility and cross-OE exposure
• A collaborative, inclusive environment where bold thinking, entrepreneurship, and integrity are equally valued

Your Responsibilities:1. Enterprise Strategy & Transformation

• Partner with the Regional CEO and Board of Management to shape Allianz Benelux's strategic agenda and translate it into a coherent, executable enterprise transformation roadmap.
• Own the enterprise transformation agenda across Belgium and the Netherlands, bringing together growth, customer and broker experience, productivity, operating model, technology modernization, Data & AI and workforce transformation.
• Lead major enterprise-wide transformations from ambition through execution and value realization, ensuring that strategic priorities translate into tangible and sustainable business outcomes.
• Act as an independent and constructive challenger to the Board of Management on strategic priorities, transformation ambition, investment choices and execution performance.
• Serve as a catalyst for enterprise change, challenging legacy processes, organizational complexity and established ways of working where these constrain customer value, growth or productivity.

2. Enterprise Portfolio, Performance & Value Delivery

• Own and steer the strategic transformation portfolio, ensuring capital, resources and management attention are allocated to the initiatives creating the greatest strategic and financial value.
• Drive rigorous prioritization across business, operations, technology and Data & AI, actively challenging, reshaping or stopping initiatives that do not demonstrate sufficient strategic relevance, execution readiness or value potential.
• Lead enterprise planning and portfolio governance in close partnership with Finance and the respective Board Members, ensuring clear accountability for investment, execution and outcomes.
• Establish rigorous performance and benefits-realization disciplines, ensuring transformation commitments translate into measurable P&L impact, productivity, growth, customer outcomes and sustainable business value.
• Lead executive-level portfolio and performance reviews, including the Quarterly Business Review, and represent Allianz Benelux towards Allianz Group on strategic planning and major transformation programmes.
• Build and lead a strong enterprise transformation capability, deploying programme and transformation leaders against the organization's most critical priorities.

3. Operating Model, Productivity & Workforce Transformation

• Shape and implement the future operating model of Allianz Benelux, simplifying the organization and redesigning processes, capabilities and ways of working to improve customer outcomes, speed and efficiency.
• Drive the structural productivity agenda across the enterprise, combining process simplification, automation, Data & AI, technology modernization, strategic sourcing and organizational redesign.
• Lead the Strategic Workforce Transformation agenda together with HR and business leaders, anticipating how technology and AI will reshape roles, skills and organizational structures.
• Translate the future operating model into actionable workforce plans encompassing organizational redesign, workforce evolution, upskilling, reskilling and capability building.
• Ensure transformation is embedded sustainably in the organization through strong leadership accountability, adoption and change management.

4. Data & AI Strategy and Business Transformation

• Own Allianz Benelux's enterprise Data & AI strategy and ensure Data, Analytics and AI become material drivers of business performance and competitive advantage.
• Lead the Data & AI organization and build the capabilities, platforms, governance and talent required to deploy Data & AI safely and effectively at enterprise scale.
• Accelerate the transition from experimentation to scaled business adoption, embedding AI into customer and broker journeys, underwriting, claims, operations and employee workflows.
• Establish clear business ownership and value accountability for Data & AI investments, ensuring initiatives deliver measurable growth, customer, productivity or risk outcomes.
• Partner closely with the CIO, business leaders and Allianz Group to align technology modernization, enterprise architecture, Data & AI capabilities and the broader transformation agenda.

5. Executive & People Leadership

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the Regional CEO and an active member of the Executive Committee, contributing beyond the direct transformation remit to the overall leadership and performance of Allianz Benelux.
• Build alignment and shared accountability for transformation across the Executive Committee, while constructively challenging business and functional leaders where ambition, pace or execution need to improve.
• Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing multidisciplinary organization spanning enterprise transformation, programme leadership and Data & AI.
• Attract and develop exceptional leaders and specialist talent while building transformation and Data & AI capabilities across the wider organization.
• Represent Allianz Benelux with the Supervisory Board, Allianz Group and relevant external stakeholders on enterprise transformation and Data & AI priorities.

Your Profile

We are looking for an accomplished enterprise transformation leader who combines strategic perspective, commercial and financial acumen, technology and Data & AI fluency, and exceptional execution capability.

The successful candidate will bring:

• Significant senior leadership experience in a large, complex organization, with a proven track record of leading enterprise-wide transformations of material scale and complexity.
• Demonstrated success in translating transformation into measurable business and financial outcomes, including productivity, structural cost improvement, growth, customer experie