Andrea Pohlman has been cornerstone in providing Accelare’s clients with expertise in key principles of Organizational Change Management, Organizational Design and Readiness, Business Process Engineering and Corporate Communications to support the successful implementation of new processes and concepts into organizations.
With over 14 years in the financial services industry, Andrea came to Accelare in 2008 from Allianz Life, where she was the Director of Business Process Engineering, Business Process Center of Excellence for Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz). She led all aspects of definition and analysis of business design on processes within the current and future business environment for Operations, ensuring alignment with corporate strategies. She was also responsible for the Allianz’ global continuous process improvement methodology – OPEX – governance and the project pipeline for North America. Andrea was accountable for the process engineering of company transformation efforts that focus on operations and the underlying technology, along with leading the organization’s movement to Business Process Management (BPM), shifting the organization to a customer centric business model. In conjunction with launching OPEX, Andrea was responsible for leading the global development efforts for Allianz’ Employee Innovation program, their Organizational Change Management Practice and Allianz’ Customer Focus initiatives, as well.
Andrea has been dedicated to the delivery of Industry Expertise surrounding best practices in process improvement and moving industry standards. Andrea came to Allianz from successful career partnerships with Fortune 50 companies Prudential Financial and MetLife.