Ref. 6668

Head Business Development & Strategic Alliances

You have many years of management or strategy consulting experience in the insurance market. You are comfortable at C and board level. In the insurance industry, you are considered an expert in core processes and innovation. You will be responsible for developing and implementing strategies, as well as initiating alliances and creating ecosystems. This is a succession placement.

How you can benefit from talking to us:

  • Salary comparison, current salary to market salary
  • Understanding your career options
  • Identification of development and promotion potential
  • 65% of candidates will be making a career move within the next 12 to 24 months

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Why is this position interesting for you

Positioning

  • Your benefit: Gain insight into the top players in the insurance industry. An established organisation in its field, our client still operates like a start-up in many ways.

 

Writing a new chapter

  • Your benefit: Input, suggestions and independent thinking are encouraged.

 

Strategy & partnerships / alliances

  • Your benefit: As an insurance expert, you will be responsible for strategy planning and implementation within alliances and with the ecosystem.

 

Fun & succsess

  • Your benefit: Innovation and great ideas thrive in a fun and relaxed environment. You will work with the best and be part of the success story.

Tasks

  • Strategy, identification, business case development and execution of value-added initiatives with alliance members
  • Strategic partner management, identification, planning and execution of strategic partner initiatives (contextual selling)
  • Ensuring all aspects of compliance, defining and implementing policies and conducting regular audits and training
  • Planning and execution of regular meetings such as alliance member meetings, shareholder meetings
  • Programme Management Office, responsible for methodology, structure, toolset and weekly stand-up meetings
  • Sparring partner for the CEO

 

Role, function

  • Reporting directly to the CEO
  • Responsibility for strategy, innovation, compliance
  • Leading a team of 8 FTEs as PMO

 

What can you expect?

  • A respectful, straightforward, open and transparent leadership culture
  • A stable, long-established company with a solid foundation
  • State-of-the-art office infrastructure in the centre of Zurich, with "work remote" as an established model

 

Conditions

  • A dynamic, technology-driven, international environment combined with Swiss values
  • Salary commensurate with high expectations

 

What sets you apart?

  • Sound judgement, political sensitivity, experience of navigating at C-suite and board level, mentoring and mitigating diverse interests and agendas
  • Understanding of insurance sector issues combined with quick grasp of concepts and strong problem solving skills
  • Your personality is one of in-depth knowledge and you can laugh at yourself when necessary
  • Have an entrepreneurial mindset
  • As a leader, respect and trust combined with groundedness and a hands-on mentality are what set you apart
  • You find optimisation and digitalisation exciting and see them as opportunities

 

Call to action

  • Yvonne Thoma is personally leading this mandate, please contact her. We look forward to getting to know you!

Application & Contact

Erik Wirz
Erik Wirz
Managing Partner
wirz phone +41 44 515 02 60 wirz email erik.wirz@w-gruppe.com

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Recruitment Process

In an initial conversation, we will give you a detailed insight into the role, the company, the culture and your development opportunities.

After an initial conversation with the partner (headhunter), you will receive further information about the role and our client's expectations. If you are interested, please send us your documents. Wirz & Partners will draw up a longlist which will be discussed with the client. From this longlist, 4-6 candidates are selected for the shortlist.

 

Time until feedback: 2-3 weeks

If you make it to the shortlist, you will move on to the next round. During the interview with Wirz & Partners, we will get to know you professionally and personally. You will receive additional information about the client, the offering, the services, the team and the KPIs. Based on all interviews and documents, we prepare a complete dossier on you for the client, including an executive summary. These documents form the basis of the structured interview process with the client. We prepare you for the interview.

 

Duration until the interview with the client: Up to 2 weeks

The first meeting with the client is about getting to know each other on an equal footing, getting to know the people and the culture. This takes place in person at the client's location and usually lasts around an hour.

The second interview focuses on professional competencies and leadership issues. You will get to know the team, the strategy and the operational goals.

You will then receive a salary proposal and an overview of the overall offer.

 

Duration until feedback: 1-2 weeks

A de-briefing with you and the client takes place after the final meeting.

We help you negotiate the contract and clarify further details. The contract is drafted and we support the onboarding process with the client.

 

Duration until feedback: Up to 1 week

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