Digital Asset Business Lead | Dubai, UAE

[18 months, fixed term contract] As the Digital Asset Business Lead, you will report to the Head of Digital Assets and have overall responsibility for creating, planning, implementing, and monitoring the direction and performance for a Digital Asset - a customer-facing platform (app, widget, or chat bot). The main purpose of the role is to take business lead for defining and evolving product/features concepts in the cross-segments area and to drive the overall asset global growth with digital health services behind.

What you do:

• Monitor and coordinate market and industry trends and activities, benchmark solutions to research, assess and develop new concepts, ideas contributing to an asset evolution and to identify best practices for Digital Asset(s).
• Take the end-to-end ownership for building POCs, business models, business cases, business roadmap and plans to drive the assets business performance, utilization, and monetization opportunities within Allianz Partners group and beyond whether as a standalone Digital Asset(s) or integrated part of the e-health ecosystem.
• Map and align with omni-channel objectives to design customer-centric journeys, conceptualize conversational flows and first-class experience of the Digital Asset(s) without compromising on delivery timelines and qualitative outcomes.
• Translate the needs of a whole business unit into tangible solutions with a remarkable understanding of cost efficiency with high-quality assurance working in an agile environment.
• Manage relationships with other departments and business units within Allianz Partners group and beyond by being an ambassador of the Digital Asset(s).
• Collaborate closely with the Product Owner(s), Delivery Lead(s), and follow plans from Product Manager(s) for Digital Assets and Digital Services in alignment with the corporate and departmental strategy; and lead prioritization of tasks aligned with OKRs & departmental goals.
• Support in creating and executing go-to-market plans, set business performance criteria and KPIs.
• Monitor and analyze performance reports and customer feedback to identify key findings and make recommendations for further improvement of Digital Asset(s).

What you bring:

• 5+ years of experience in a product management role.
• Holds a university degree in Business Administration (or similar).
• Demonstrated launching and scaling of digital products or UX/product transformation.
• Delivered & optimized campaigns based on behavioral data and customer profile data.
• Understanding of analytics, AI (NLP, LLM, ML or Prompt Engineering), and data science.
• Understanding of the digital health ecosystems and the insurance sector.
• Legally permitted to work in the country of operations (UAE).
• Fluency in MS Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint) and general internet navigation and research skills.
• Worked in an agile environment and scrum methodology.

Behavioral Requirements:

• Solid understanding of Marketing Management and business environment.
• Exposure to working in an agile product development environment.
• Exemplary interpersonal and communication expertise.
• Excellent team- and relationship-building abilities, with both internal and external parties (developers, business stakeholders, partners, etc.).
• Ability to work well under pressure and maintain keen attention to detail in an agile environment.
• Strong to-do attitude with understanding of responsibility and accountability for end-to-end delivery with ability to influence cross-functional teams via diplomacy and tact.
• Self-directed, results-oriented and a hands-on working mindset.
• Strong analytics and problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong customer orientation and business development focus, orientation towards innovations, and global industry trends.

Behavioral Competencies: Customer & Market Excellence:

• Strive for excellence at every touch point with the customer.
• Foster state-of-art technical/operational knowledge and strive for continuous simplification.
• Be the benchmark.

Collaborative Leadership:

• Lead projects and support other team members by providing purpose and direction.
• Develop people, provide feedback and care to employee wellbeing.
• Collaborate and exchange best practices.

Entrepreneurship:

• Act on opportunities, anticipate trends, take risks, and promote a culture that allows for honest failure.
• Take ownership and responsibility.
• Embrace innovation and a culture that allows making decisions without fear of retribution.

Trust:

• Act with integrity, honor commitments, tell the truth.
• Foster diversity and inclusiveness.
• Act transparently and promote corporate social responsibility.

What we offer: Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey. We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is a key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to provide you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.