Project Manager (m/f/d): Business Process Optimization and Digitalization

Financial Services Provider

The Company

Our client is one of the world's leading reinsurance companies with more than 11,000 employees at over 50 locations around the globe.

The department Organization & Process Design is responsible for a holistic perspective on structures and processes across the group. The importance of and demand for process optimization and digitalization is steadily growing. The ambition is to facilitate the advancement to a digital enterprise while helping business and central units achieve digital process excellence.

We are looking for a highly-motivated Project Manager (m/f/d) to strengthen the team in this demanding task.

Your Tasks

  • Modelling current processes, identifying improvement opportunities and digitization potential
  • Defining target pictures (esp. “to-be processes”) with process owners and supporting business in eliminating effort and complexity drivers
  • Create business cases for (digital) transformation opportunities
  • Understanding and leveraging the potential of digital technologies for re-engineering of business processes. Derive use cases for automation and digitalization as well as digital collaboration
  • Challenge application specifications in terms of process fit and process maturity, e.g. by performing gap-analyses
  • Manage projects, apply creativity and process optimization techniques, as well as application of process transformation tools and methods
  • Actively contribute in identifying opportunities (e.g. moderation of workshops, analysis and documentation) thereby driving the overall roadmap for a digital transformation of the group
  • Support definition, documentation and implementation of a group-specific framework and methodology for process optimization
  • Conduct trainings for the process management tool ADONIS as well as support business units in case of methodological/tool-related questions
  • Ensure compliance to process-system-related SII requirements, e.g. by supporting process owners in updating process landscapes

What You Bring With You

  • Excellent university degree
  • 4+ years’ expertise in consulting or industry with a profound understanding of business models and processes
  • Good understanding of the primary/reinsurance value chain, challenges and digitization is a plus
  • Profound experience in business process reengineering methodologies
  • Experience in IT solution design and IT architectural concepts is an advantage
  • Passion for digitalization and new innovative technologies, sound understanding of digitalization tools like Process Mining, OCR, RPA, NLP and Workflow Automation
  • Experience in management of projects in the context of process optimization and automation
  • Entrepreneurial and highly self-motivated personality with a strong ambition to drive change
  • Strong team play and personal integrity, highly developed soft skills, especially strong communication, networking and intercultural skills
  • Outstanding analytical and conceptual skills
  • Excellent language proficiency in English, German is a plus