Head of Corporate Building Solutions and Operations

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**Who will you be joining?**

The Allianz SE Corporate Building Solutions and Operations team is in charge of the process optimization and digitalization of the headquarters operations to offer a customer centric service and state of the art working environment and processes to Allianz SE employees.

As a Head of this team, you will be playing a critical role in the transformation of Allianz headquarters, specially in the areas of real estate, travel services and intercompany billing processes.

**How can you make an impact?**
- Lead for retained organization for real estate management and travel services, including steering of internal service providers, strategy definition, user representation and budget controlling.
- Enable 3rd parties invoicing and inter-company billing in Allianz SE as well as management of AZSE Group Charges
- Drive operational objectives with ongoing process improvement initiatives to continually improve service, project delivery, and customer success at Schwabing campus.
- Cost control responsible for the operations related central expenses for Allianz holding
- Understand needs of multicultural and international teams and transmit them to the service providers.
- Quickly respond to queries with high diplomacy and resolve any technical barriers to completion.
- Negotiations lead for works council relevant initiatives in the area of operations.
- Troubleshoot, walk down, and resolve issues that arise from all workstreams.
- Supervise, lead and coach the team

**What are you made of?**

**Minimum Qualifications**
- Proven experience as a people manager. Confirmed track of successfully supervising, developing and training staff
- Experience delivering best-in-class customer service
- Demonstrated ability to manage projects and workflow to ensure accuracy and quality
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, constant change & innovating environment where priorities change frequently
- Demonstrated ability to manage the overall business initiative or several components of a large, sophisticated project
- Ability to manage a group of specialists and be the single point of contact managing several competing priorities
- Excellent interpersonal skills. Ability to engage with emotional intelligence as the need arises in order to preserve employees satisfaction
- Strong project management skills with the ability to juggle multiple projects/tasks across various user groups
- Excellent independent and decision-making capabilities
- Strong team player and customer & Service focus
- Change Management principles and processes experience desired
- Previous experience in business related functions (e.i. Sales, Operations, Claims, Underwriting, Investment Management, Asset Management, Consulting, Product Development, Finance, Market Management, Digital / Tech etc.) is a plus

**Preferred Qualifications**
- 5 to 10 years experience in real estate management or operations related function
- University degree (Bachelor’s, Master’s, MBA) in business administration, engineering or natural sciences with focus on business or finance, or relevant field
- Excellent written, presentation and interpersonal skills. Ability to communicate complex concepts in simple ways
- Stakeholder management: ability to influence, guide and build relationships at a senior level
- Analytical thinking to identify and understand complex corporate business, challenges and solutions
- Intercultural skills and ability to successfully work cross-functionally and across Allianz’s Operational Entities (OE’s)
- Fluent in Englisch and German is an advantage

**Do we have what you need?**
- Flexible working arrangements (opportunity to work from home few days per week)
- Individual and excellent career development opportunities/plans
- Family friendly working environment
- Health & well-being offerings
- Company pension & health insurance
- Multi-national, diverse and inclusive community
- Opportunity to make an impact on our sustainability initiatives

**Additional Information**

Senior Recruiter: Ms. Zhiva Hristova: +49 89 3800 14379

22043 | Real Estate | Management | Allianz SE | Full-Time | Permanent

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