Partnerships Account Manager

Role Description

Allianz Pet is now entering the next stage of development and is looking to achieve major growth across its portfolio of brands, including market leader Petplan. Identified for 'unconstrained growth', the business is increasing pet insurance distribution across all trading models including Partnerships.

Pet products will be the primary focus of this role, however, we are looking for the individual to develop their learning and understanding across all Allianz product suites.

We are seeking a proactive and commercially minded individual to manage key strategic relationships. As the primary point of contact, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining long-term, profitable partnerships that support the business’s growth objectives.

 You will coordinate the delivery of tailored propositions across internal teams, ensuring the development of sustainable and value driven trading relationships that align with both our strategic goals and broker needs.

Location: Location is flexible, please note this is a hybrid role.

Salary Information

Pay: Circa £60,000 per year. Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.

About You

• Previous experience in account management across pet products (other products desirable)


• Manages relevant stakeholders, governance processes, and procedures.


• Develops, communicates, and implements the individual partner strategy in line with Corporate Plan targets, engaging all supporting teams regularly to maintain focus.


• Builds strong relationships with partnership key personnel (existing and new customer) to fully understand their businesses, trading models, and organizational structures, enabling the negotiation of strong commercial outcomes and effective internal stakeholder engagement.


• Responsible for executing strategic projects and business initiatives to achieve planned business benefits.


• Keeps up to date with both insurance market and partner sector developments and trends, working proactively with partners and the business to assess potential impacts and drive discussions on change to evolve the business and strategy (e.g., new technology, competitor activity, regulatory changes).

Deliver Commercial Objectives:

• Owns the individual profit and loss account, expenses, and key performance indicators, ensuring broker delivery against Corporate Plan targets. Creates account plans, manages performance against plans, and takes corrective actions where required.


• Shape the strategic direction for your assigned Partnerships within the team.


• Collaborate with the Partnerships Marketing and Field Sales teams to align marketing activities with strategic objectives, ensuring campaigns benefit both Petplan and its partners.


• Achieve partner-specific sales targets through traditional channel engagement and new partner distribution programs.


• Own key partner performance reporting and work closely with the Data & Insight team to understand and report on partner and campaign-specific performance.

Essential Skills

• Strong leadership experience with a proven track record of engaging and leading cross-functional teams to deliver customer and profitable growth objectives.


• Extensive account and relationship management experience, with the ability to develop and implement customer strategies, build effective relationships at director level, and influence joint strategies.


• Commercial and strategic acumen, with the ability to align customer and company strategies, identify profitable growth opportunities, and make informed business decisions.


• Strong financial expertise, including a sound understanding of P&L and the ability to interpret results and take appropriate actions.


• Experience in project management and delivering strategic initiatives to achieve business outcomes.


• In-depth knowledge of the personal insurance market and distribution environment, with a strong understanding of Allianz’s customer and partner propositions.


• Clear awareness of agency, regulatory, and compliance requirements.


• Excellent interpersonal skills, including relationship management, networking, negotiation, and persuasion.

Desirable Skills

• Responsible Artificial Intelligence usage (If there is a more relevant AI skill please amend)

What We Will Offer You

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:

• Flexible buy/sell holiday options


• Hybrid working


• Annual performance related bonus


• Contributory pension scheme


• Development days


• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet


• Retail discounts


• Volunteering days

Our Ways of Working

Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.

Inclusive Support & Accessibility

At Allianz, we are committed to fostering building an inclusive, accessible workplace where everyone can thrive. As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates and offer tailored adjustments throughout the recruitment process and in the workplace, whether that’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, flexible working arrangements, mentoring or coaching. We want to encourage candidates to speak with us about any adjustments they may need. We’re here to support you.

If you have a disability or long‑term health condition and meet the essential criteria, you can choose to be considered through our Offer an Interview Scheme.

Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for any assistance during the recruitment process including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications. [email protected] 

For any inquiries or to submit your application, please contact: Aoife Magee

If you are an at-risk candidate facing potential redeployment, please include this information in your CV.

Closing date: 24/08/2026

We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.

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