Allianz UK has promoted Sarah Watts as partnerships director in its personal lines retail leadership team, which includes home insurance.  

Watts will be responsible for the overall growth and product development of the firm’s partnerships business, which manages and develops relationships with brokers, affinity partners, banks and building societies.

It adds the appointment “reflects Allianz’s ambition to develop and grow its UK business”. 

Watts previously held the role on an interim basis and before that led the intermediary sales and marketing teams.  

She has more than 25 years of experience in the personal lines market and has worked with a wide range of partners, and most recently with financial advisers and mortgage brokers in the intermediary market. 

Allianz UK managing director of retail insurance Henry Topham adds: “Sarah brings a vast amount of energy, experience and drive to the job and I’m excited for what this means for our personal lines partnerships business.  

“We see a big opportunity to grow our presence in the UK insurance market, which is a key part of our wider strategy of focused expansion.”