Conversational AI Regional Lead APAC

Join Allianz Partners as the Regional Conversational AI (CAI) Lead, Apac and play a key role in driving digital transformation You'll be at the forefront of implementing CAI strategic goals, managing the solution pipeline, and ensuring top-notch alignment with global standards. Enhance customer engagement, boost efficiency, and fuel growth by overseeing CAI resources and rollouts. Regularly report on opportunities, risks, and performance to drive continuous improvement.

Be part of the dynamic Global Operations Digital Transformation team and report to the Head of Conversational AI. This unit integrates cloud/AI solutions, manages learning curves, and ensures operational readiness. This role involves continuous communication with Global functions and local Business Units to enhance processes and support tool adoption, working within a global, cross Line of Business team using the same tools and systems.

• Oversee and coordinate resource management within the region, providing skilled staffing as required for CAI projects, CAI solution operations, and testing efforts.
• Report regularly on resource utilization and availability, performance status of CAI solution, pipeline opportunities and potentials risks & blockers for CAI solution rollouts.
• Facilitate stakeholder approvals and ensure to keep CAI solution requirements updated for developing new CAI solutions.
• Account for necessary reviews and approval meetings, facilitating both alignments with the end-to-end process improvement team on CAI solution requirements (changes) and approval meetings before Go-Live of a CAI solution.
• Manage the roll-out of CAI solutions by accounting for project timeline keeping and facilitating project activities, orchestrating necessary data collection (e.g., for Natural Language Understanding (NLU) training), overseeing testing of CAI solution, and ensuring safe & compliant CAI solution deployment.
• Identify potential delivery risks such as language capabilities and skill gaps, and devise strategies for mitigation.
• Support regional Incident and Bug management, aligning with the CAI Service & Demand Manager as needed.

• Bachelor's degree in business management or relevant field; Master's degree preferred OR willing to consider an equivalent combination of education, training and relevant experience
• 5+ years of project management and/ or demand management, preferably in Conversational AI
• Deep experience in automation delivery, lifecycle management and operations as well as platform and people management
• Established track record in working with market leading CAI platforms preferred (e.g., Cognigy)
• Good analytical skills and experience working with customer contact center.
• Knowledge on incidents, Problem, Service Level Agreement (SLA)
• Expertise in Conversational Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Coding basics (e.g. JAVA, SQL) is a big plus
• Very strong execution skills, ability to translate business requirements in technical solutions.
• Ability to drive complex projects/requests, multi-task and prioritize with strong attention to details.
• Knowledge on Testing tools, good understanding of testing requirements
• High problem solution competencies, including analytical mindset and skills to analyze solutions and underlying business processes.
• Collaborative team player, positive contributing to 'creating more value together'. Cultural sensitivity to fit into a multinational setup.
• Cognigy certification is a plus but not required.
• Strong presentation skills

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