Dr. Erik Leyers

Build up function, i.e. organizational management (Holding and Group level), Group Project Office. Responsible for operational optimization programs on Group level, e.g. target operating model. Involved in driving strategy, organizational design and transformation.

Implemented shared services in Procurement, HR, Finance, Real Estate and IT. Founded branches and near-/offshore production centres (day-1-readiness). Lead BCM and operative risk management. Shaped strategy, drove company-/ function mergers, organizational design/ -transformation and post merger integration. Built up approval of new business/ projects in AMOS, overall account management/ sales steering (incl. service catalogue redesign). KAM for 8 Allianz entities.

Led Project “AMOS Blueprint” to build up Shared Services in Allianz Group, incl. target design, company foundation “AMOS SE” (Allianz Group’s Shared Service Company), company-/ function mergers. Defined shared service standards and governance setup between Group, local entities and AMOS.

Set up strategic non-IT procurement function for Allianz Group from scratch in a decentralized environment (separate country-led procurement organizations): Conceptualized and implemented mandate, governance/ organizational/ process setup, spend transparency, contract management, savings controlling. Projects in travel/ temp. labour/ marketing/ audit/ legal advice. Continued responsibility for project portfolio management/ -approvals in Allianz SE and management of glob. consulting spend.

Built up project portfolio management/ -approvals/ -tracking in Allianz SE, incl. process design and project standards. Built up management of glob. consulting spend, incl. SRM and budget caps. Supported the CAO function in concepts, corp. governance, executive/ staff meetings.

Established strategic IT procurement function for Allianz Group in a decentralized environment (separate country-led procurement organizations): Enhanced and implemented mandate, governance/ organizational/ process setup, spend transparency, contract management, savings controlling. Projects in hardware, software, telecommunications, infrastructure, mainframe, IT services/ consultancy, non IT consultancy.

Projects in banking and securities, insurance und asset gathering, high tech, automotive, health care: business strategy, marketing strategy, sales management, business operations, project planning, post-merger integration, procurement optimization, supply and procurement management, cost optimization, controlling.

Assistant to the Management of the Economic Institute, referee for Journal “JITE” (Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics). Teaching focus: Wage-/ labor market theory, institutional-, monetary-, micro-, macro-economics. Dissertation thesis “origin and limits of the phenomenon money”.

Teaching focus: Wage-/ labor market theory, institutional-, monetary-, micro-, macro-economics. Dissertation thesis “origin and limits of the phenomenon money”.

International trade, insurance-/monetary-economics, property rights theory, exchange rate theory and hysteresis.