At Allianz Life, we are guided by our mission - we secure your future - and by our common goal of caring for tomorrow. We care for our employees by promoting an inclusive culture where everyone has the opportunity to grow and be rewarded for their success. We care for our customers by creating new products that help them protect their families and pursue their retirement goals. We care for our community by giving time, resources, and donations. And we care for the future by supporting sustainability, protecting the local environment, and promoting societal equity.

What you do:Create and lead project plans and timelines to ensure that important program milestones are met in a timely and accurate fashion by facilitating partnerships across the team. Manage the deliverables and communicate at all levels to illuminate opportunities and risks. Foster the agile mindset and guides the team to apply Agile principles to their work. You will report to the ETF Distribution Marketing Manager.
• Responsible for refining the backlog with the product owner to support overall roadmap, and identifying priorities.
• Facilitate dedicated team meetings including standups, backlog refinement, sprint planning and retrospectives.
• Manage a portfolio of complex projects for the ETF line of business.
• Helps the team understand the deliverables from the product backlog.
• Create project timelines and schedule, coordinate deadlines, and approval stages.
• Break down roadblocks in process by looking for solutions.
• Provide leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, following their responsibilities and project milestones.
• Manage all aspects of multiple related projects to ensure the program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic goals.
• Full project lifecycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one major or several minor projects simultaneously.
• Manage the daily project activities.
• Always find ways to improve workflow and efficiencies, maximizing the team's effectiveness.
• Strives for the best end-to-end process.
• Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence.
• Continue professional development to remain current on new technologies, methods and best practices.

What you bring:
• 6+ years of experience required: External/Internal ad agency experience, account service experience. Understanding of creative process and print/web production, Microsoft Office Suite.
• Four-year degree required: Communication, advertising design or equivalent experience

What we offer:At Allianz Life, we're proud to provide a benefits package that supports the True Balance of our employees and their families. We offer: a choice of comprehensive medical, dental and vision plan options, health savings account, tuition reimbursement, student loan retirement plan, generous annual paid leave, an outstanding 401(k) company match, and life insurance. Plus, our employees enjoy an award-winning campus with an array of discounted amenities, including an onsite health center, child development center, fitness facility, convenience store and two cafeterias. Our employees and leaders take an active role in shaping our culture through our Employee Resource Groups, whose activities and advocacy contribute to an environment that welcomes, includes and celebrates diversity. Our great benefits, campus amenities and inclusive, engaged culture are among the many reasons we're recognized as a top workplace employer.47720 | Project Management | Professional | Allianz US Life | Full-Time | PermanentWarning: When posting this job advertisment on an external job board, the length of the following fields combined must not exceed 3950 characters: "External Posting Description", "External Posting Footer"

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. We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in. We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.

Join us. Let's care for tomorrow. #LI-TD1

Nearest Major Market: Minneapolis