Provider Invoice Management Strategic Program Manager

The Strategic Program Manager for Provider Invoice Management (PIM) is a senior leadership role within the Allianz Partners Global Office responsible for translating the global PIM strategy into consistent, measurable, and scalable execution across 26+ Business Units. Sitting directly under the Head of PIM, this role leads a global team driving performance steering, operational governance, digital enablement, process standardization, and capability development for a function that processes ~6 million invoices and ~€1B annually.

The role serves as the strategic integrator between global vision and operational execution—ensuring that global PIM standards, productivity targets, governance frameworks, digital transformation, and best-practice operating models are consistently embedded across all countries. This position plays a key role in elevating the maturity of the PIM function, ensuring compliance, optimizing costs, enabling transformation projects, and building a sustainable training and continuous improvement culture globally.

What You Do/
Key Responsibilities****

• Global Strategy Execution & Program Leadership
• Translate the global PIM strategy and target operating model into actionable programs and initiatives across all regions.
• Lead execution of multi-year strategic programs including digital transformation, AI deployment, automation scaling, and operational harmonization.
• Act as a critical thought partner to the Head of PIM, contributing to strategy shaping, prioritization, and decision-making.
• Oversee strategic alignment of all PIM initiatives across 26+ BUs, ensuring global consistency and local adoption.
• Leadership of the Global PIM Program Office
• Lead and develop a global team covering run steering, project management, governance, process optimization, and training.
• Establish clear priorities, accountability frameworks, ways of working, and performance expectations for direct reports.
• Ensure integrated planning and collaboration across team members to avoid siloed efforts and maximize impact.
• Build a high-performance culture focused on continuous improvement, operational excellence, and proactive risk mitigation.
• Performance Management & Operational Steering
• Oversee global performance and productivity monitoring, ensuring all BUs meet targets on backlog, aging, SLAs, FTE levels, and forecasting accuracy.
• Ensure robust performance dashboards, KPIs, reporting standards, and business review cadences are in place and adhered to.
• Identify performance gaps, coordinate root-cause analysis, and mandate corrective action plans in collaboration with BU leadership.
• Present high-quality performance insights and recommendations to senior management and the Head of PIM.
• Governance, Compliance, and Risk Oversight
• Own the global PIM governance and process adherence framework, ensuring all BUs operate in line with approved standards.
• Ensure consistent implementation and refresh of the target operating model, PIM blueprints, global process flows, and policy documents.
• Act as the escalation point for governance, process deviations, audit findings, and compliance risks.
• Coordinate global audit response, remediation plans, and periodic reporting to the Head of PIM.
• Support regulatory and compliance assessments impacting PIM and ensure timely alignment with changing requirements.
• Digital Transformation, AI Deployment & Tool Adoption
• Lead the rollout of digital and AI-driven solutions across BUs, ensuring adoption, change management, and performance utilization tracking.
• Partner closely with IT, Data, and Digital teams to prioritize enhancements, manage demand, and ensure solutions meet business needs.
• Oversee monitoring of digital utilization rates and troubleshooting to maximize automation impact.
• Drive BU onboarding for new systems, technology features, and AI-enabled workflows.
• Global Process Improvement & Best Practice Harmonization
• Direct global standardization efforts including mapping activities, sizing, staffing optimization, and cross-BU benchmarking.
• Ensure validated best practices are embedded into the target operating model and leveraged globally.
• Oversee identification of efficiency opportunities, cost reductions, and process streamlining initiatives.
• Ensure continuous improvement principles are embedded into the culture through training, coaching, and recurring reviews.
• Global Training, Capability Building, and Change Management
• Oversee the global PIM training framework, including onboarding materials, training curricula, job aids, and digital learning assets.
• Lead capability uplift initiatives related to AI, automation, new tools, new processes, and governance requirements.
• Ensure that BU personnel are trained, assessed, and certified (if applicable) against global standards.
• Coordinate change management for major global rollouts, ensuring readiness, communication, and post-implementation stabilization.
• Senior Stakeholder Management & Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Act as a key liaison between global PIM and regional PIM leaders, Ops heads, Finance, IT, Compliance, HR, and Digital teams.
• Influence senior stakeholders to adopt global decisions, standards, and transformation timelines.
• Provide structured updates and insights to the Head of PIM and senior leadership teams.
• Ensure all global PIM programs are aligned with corporate priorities, resource constraints, and operational realities.

What You Bring/Key Requirements
Education

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Operations, Engineering, or related field required.
• Master's degree (MBA or similar) preferred.
• Certifications highly valued: Lean Six Sigma, PMP/PRINCE2, Agile, or other relevant programs.

Experience & Expertise

• 8–12+ years of experience in operations, strategic program management, or transformation roles, ideally within insurance, assistance, shared services, or financial services.
• Proven experience managing multi-national programs and teams in a matrix environment.
• Strong expertise in performance management, operational steering, and process optimization.
• Deep understanding of governance frameworks, risk management, and audit resolution.
• Significant experience deploying digital tools, automation, or AI-driven process improvements.
• Demonstrated success leading projects across diverse, cross-cultural environments.

Skills & Competencies

• Strategic thinker with the ability to convert vision into executable, scalable plans.
• Excellent leadership and people management skills; able to motivate and develop a global team.
• Strong analytical capability with proficiency in Power BI, OneBI, process mapping tools, and advanced Excel.
• Outstanding communication skills, able to influence senior stakeholders and present to executive leadership.
• High resilience, adaptability, and ability to navigate ambiguity.
• Strong problem-solving mindset with a focus on outcomes and impact.
• Professional fluency in English (written and spoken); additional languages are a plus (Spanish, Italian advantageous).

What We Offer.Why This Role Matters
This Strategic Program Manager will be a central engine driving consistency, excellence, and transformation across PIM globally. With a mandate spanning operational performance, governance, transformation, digital adoption, and training, this role ensures that the PIM function continues to mature, scale, and deliver high-quality outcomes for Allianz Partners worldwide.

88485 | Procurement | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent

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