IT Demand Manager - #53093

Are you ready to shape how business needs are translated into IT solutions? As an IT Demand Manager, you'll be the crucial link between business stakeholders and IT providers, ensuring incoming requests are clearly defined, properly validated, and supported with accurate effort and cost estimations.

Role Summary

In this strategic position, you'll coordinate the entire IT demand intake process, manage estimation workflows with providers, and maintain transparent demand tracking. Your analytical mindset and collaborative approach will ensure IT demand is managed efficiently and transparently across the organization.

Your Responsibilities

• Coordinate IT Demand Intake: Serve as the single point of contact for business-initiated IT requests, reviewing and structuring them for clarity and completeness before submission.
• Manage Estimation Process: Facilitate the end-to-end estimation process with internal and external IT providers, ensuring delivery partners assess feasibility, conduct capacity checks, and provide estimates within agreed timelines.
• Validate and Challenge Estimates: Critically assess proposed estimates using internal benchmarks, historical data, and expert knowledge to identify anomalies or excessive costs.
• Maintain Transparent Demand Tracking: Keep an up-to-date demand register to track status, estimate cycles, and provider feedback, ensuring traceability between demand intake and final delivery.
• Ensure Supplier Readiness and Delivery Feasibility: Confirm that IT suppliers have adequate capacity and contractual coverage to deliver the estimated work. Liaise with procurement and finance where needed and contribute to continuous improvement of estimation accuracy over time.

Your Profile

You have experience working with business stakeholders to structure IT requests and are familiar with estimation models and benchmarking practices. Your hands-on experience coordinating with IT providers and understanding of the demand-to-delivery lifecycle are essential. With strong communication and analytical skills, you excel at bringing diverse stakeholders together.

A Bachelor's or Master's degree in IT, Engineering, or Business Administration and fluency in English are required, with Dutch and/or French being a strong advantage. You're proactive, structured, solution-oriented, and value transparency in all interactions. And to complete the ideal profile at Allianz, we're always on the lookout for individuals who are enthusiastic about AI and Data Analytics to shape the future and drive innovation across our organization.

What We Offer

• Dynamic Environment: Work in a leading financial organization where innovation and collaboration are valued.
• Strategic Impact: Influence how IT demand is managed, from intake to delivery.
• Professional Growth: Access extensive training and development opportunities.
• Flexibility: Hybrid working model with flexible hours.
• Competitive Package: Attractive salary and benefits tailored to your expertise.

Ready to make an impact? Apply now and become our next IT Demand Manager. #LetsCareForTomorrow

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.

We are united by a shared commitment: to put our customers first and at the centre of everything we do. Their needs inspire our thinking and guide our actions.

Together, we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and confident to explore, grow and shape a better future – for our customers and for the world around us. At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. The foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and where integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust are at the heart of our culture.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

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