Allianz UK
Product Owner
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Role Description
As Product Owner you will lead the strategic development and delivery of emerging AEIS digital tools, shaping innovative solutions that deliver exceptional value for both internal and external stakeholders. This is a unique opportunity to influence digital strategy and drive transformative change.
Location
This role is based in our Guildford, Milton Keynes or Birmingham office, please note that this is a hybrid working role with the expectation that office is attended twice a week.
Salary Information
Pay: Circa £55,000 per year
Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.
About You
Your role will vary day to day, but here is a bit of what you can expect:
- Assist in developing and communicating a compelling product vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned to user needs, business objectives, and market trends
- Identify, pilot, and scale innovative solutions to meet evolving business and customer needs
- Act as the voice of the customer to own and prioritise BAU product backlogs for AEIS core systems (e.g, Microsoft D365, Totalmobile) ensuring changes deliver measurable business value
- Take ownership of decisions within your team, enabling rapid, value-driven outcomes
- Work closely with business stakeholders, SMEs, Scrum Masters and IT teams to understand operational pain points and translate them into clear delivery priorities
- Manage incidents, system issues and change requests through to resolution, balancing urgent operational needs with longer-term strategic improvements
- Support roadmap planning for AEIS BAU and transformation activity, helping sequence delivery in line with business readiness, technical dependencies and customer impact
- Lead Agile planning activities including quarterly planning, backlog refinement, and release sequencing
- Escalate risks, issues, and blockers and proactively drive resolution
- Act as a key point of contact between operational teams and delivery teams, providing clarity on requirements, priorities, risks and expected outcomes
- Use knowledge of AEIS processes and systems to identify opportunities for efficiency, compliance, productivity and customer service improvements
- Approve completed work, ensuring it meets acceptance criteria and aligns with the product vision
- Own the Support Desk service, supporting approximately 750 Engineer Surveyors with mobile technology, tablets, phones, and operational applications
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Essential Skills
- Proven experience working within Agile environments
- Excellent understanding of Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban
- Experience delivering technology-driven change with a customer-first, data-led approach
- Strong stakeholder management with the ability to influence and build trusted relationships
- Experience managing complex backlogs across multiple products or customer journeys
- Demonstrated leadership and decision-making capability within cross-functional teams
- Excellent communication skills, able to clearly articulate vision and priorities
- Excellent technical understanding of system applications and business processes
- Experience within insurance, financial services, or other highly regulated industries
- Ability to work independently and solve complex problems with minimal guidance
Desirable Skills
- Degree educated (2:1 or higher) or equivalent professional experience
- ACII qualified or working towards qualification
- Agile / Product Owner certification
- Experience mentoring or coaching Product Owners or Agile delivery teams
- Strong understanding of data-driven product development
- Responsible Artificial Intelligence usage
What We Will Offer You
Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:
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- Flexible buy/sell holiday options
- Annual performance-related bonus
- Contributory pension scheme
- Development days
- A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
- Retail discounts
- Volunteering days
Our Ways of Working
Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.
Inclusive Support & Accessibility
At Allianz, we are committed to fostering building an inclusive, accessible workplace where everyone can thrive. As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates and offer tailored adjustments throughout the recruitment process and in the workplace, whether that’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, flexible working arrangements, mentoring or coaching. We want to encourage candidates to speak with us about any adjustments they may need. We’re here to support you.
If you have a disability or long-term health condition and meet the essential criteria, you can choose to be considered through our Offer an Interview Scheme.
Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for any assistance during the recruitment process including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications. Hr-recruitment@allianz.co.uk
Contact Us
For any inquiries or to submit your application, please contact: Conor McCourt
Closing date: September 18th 2026
We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.
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