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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Chief Transformation Officer Benelux - **Company:** Allianz - **Location:** Brussel, Belgium (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis - **Published:** September 1, 2026 - **Apply:** https://be.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=0230a7ba9bbc1ea9 ## About the Role * Significant seniorleadership experience in a large, complex organization, with a proven track record of leadingenterprise-wide transformations of material scale and complexity. * Demonstrated success in translating transformation intomeasurable business and financial outcomes, including productivity, structural cost improvement, growth, customer experience and/or operational performance. * Strong experience inbusiness and operating-model transformation, ideally encompassing organizational redesign, process transformation, technology modernization, strategic sourcing and workforce transformation. * A strong understanding ofData, Analytics and AI and a demonstrated ability to use these capabilities as strategic levers of business transformation. Direct leadership of a Data AI organization is advantageous but not essential. * Thestrategic judgement andexecutive presence required to operate as a trusted partner and constructive challenger to a CEO, Executive Committee and Supervisory Board. * Strongfinancial and investment discipline, with experience prioritizing complex portfolios and holding senior leaders accountable for execution and benefits realization. * Outstandingpeople leadership, with a track record of building high-performing teams, developing senior talent and mobilizing organizations through significant change. * Experience operating effectively ininternational, multi-country and matrix organizations. Experience in insurance or broader financial services is strongly preferred, although outstanding candidates from othercomplex and highly regulated industries may also be considered. Fluency in English is required. Dutch and/or French would be a significant advantage. ## Description Allianz Benelux is at a defining moment for future-proofing its business model. We are driving a multi-year regional transformation across the Benelux - end-to-end process transformation, applying AI at scale, and a significant uplift in customer, broker, and business impact. As Chief Transformation Officer, you will be the driving force behind the execution of our company-wide transformation journey and the architect of our enterprise Data and AI agenda., 1. Enterprise Strategy Transformation * Partner with the Regional CEO and Board of Management to shape Allianz Benelux's strategic agenda and translate it into a coherent, executable enterprise transformation roadmap. * Own the enterprise transformation agenda across Belgium and the Netherlands, bringing together growth, customer and broker experience, productivity, operating model, technology modernization, Data AI and workforce transformation. * Lead major enterprise-wide transformations from ambition through execution and value realization, ensuring that strategic priorities translate into tangible and sustainable business outcomes. * Act as an independent and constructive challenger to the Board of Management on strategic priorities, transformation ambition, investment choices and execution performance. * Serve as a catalyst for enterprise change, challenging legacy processes, organizational complexity and established ways of working where these constrain customer value, growth or productivity. 2. Enterprise Portfolio, Performance Value Delivery * Own and steer the strategic transformation portfolio, ensuring capital, resources and management attention are allocated to the initiatives creating the greatest strategic and financial value. * Drive rigorous prioritization across business, operations, technology and Data AI, actively challenging, reshaping or stopping initiatives that do not demonstrate sufficient strategic relevance, execution readiness or value potential. * Lead enterprise planning and portfolio governance in close partnership with Finance and the respective Board Members, ensuring clear accountability for investment, execution and outcomes. * Establish rigorous performance and benefits-realization disciplines, ensuring transformation commitments translate into measurable PL impact, productivity, growth, customer outcomes and sustainable business value. * Lead executive-level portfolio and performance reviews, including the Quarterly Business Review, and represent Allianz Benelux towards Allianz Group on strategic planning and major transformation programmes. * Build and lead a strong enterprise transformation capability, deploying programme and transformation leaders against the organization's most critical priorities. 3. Operating Model, Productivity Workforce Transformation * Shape and implement the future operating model of Allianz Benelux, simplifying the organization and redesigning processes, capabilities and ways of working to improve customer outcomes, speed and efficiency. * Drive the structural productivity agenda across the enterprise, combining process simplification, automation, Data AI, technology modernization, strategic sourcing and organizational redesign. * Lead the Strategic Workforce Transformation agenda together with HR and business leaders, anticipating how technology and AI will reshape roles, skills and organizational structures. * Translate the future operating model into actionable workforce plans encompassing organizational redesign, workforce evolution, upskilling, reskilling and capability building. * Ensure transformation is embedded sustainably in the organization through strong leadership accountability, adoption and change management. 4. Data AI Strategy and Business Transformation * Own Allianz Benelux's enterprise Data AI strategy and ensure Data, Analytics and AI become material drivers of business performance and competitive advantage. * Lead the Data AI organization and build the capabilities, platforms, governance and talent required to deploy Data AI safely and effectively at enterprise scale. * Accelerate the transition from experimentation to scaled business adoption, embedding AI into customer and broker journeys, underwriting, claims, operations and employee workflows. * Establish clear business ownership and value accountability for Data AI investments, ensuring initiatives deliver measurable growth, customer, productivity or risk outcomes. * Partner closely with the CIO, business leaders and Allianz Group to align technology modernization, enterprise architecture, Data AI capabilities and the broader transformation agenda. 5. Executive People Leadership * Serve as a trusted advisor to the Regional CEO and an active member of the Executive Committee, contributing beyond the direct transformation remit to the overall leadership and performance of Allianz Benelux. * Build alignment and shared accountability for transformation across the Executive Committee, while constructively challenging business and functional leaders where ambition, pace or execution need to improve. * Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing multidisciplinary organization spanning enterprise transformation, programme leadership and Data AI. * Attract and develop exceptional leaders and specialist talent while building transformation and Data AI capabilities across the wider organization. * Represent Allianz Benelux with the Supervisory Board, Allianz Group and relevant external stakeholders on enterprise transformation and Data AI priorities. 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