Insurance Strategy Director

Brussels city, Brussels region Permanent Home Office View Job Description
Set up strategy product offering for a listed international insurance company. The Insurance Strategy Director defines and drives on group level the Company's strategy for Products among ESG offer, responsible underwriting, social impact, and DEI, ensuring alignment with business priorities and long-term value creation.
  • Set up strategy product offering for a listed international insurance company
  • Focuses on life and non-life products with a network of 15 countries

About Our Client

Set up strategy product offering for a listed international insurance company that focuses on life and non-life products with a network of 15 countries.

Job Description

The Insurance Strategy Director defines and drives on group level the Company's strategy for Products among ESG offer, responsible underwriting, social impact, and DEI, ensuring alignment with business priorities and long-term value creation. The role provides strategic guidance to senior leadership, establishes the frameworks and governance needed for consistent execution across the Group, and acts as the Company's leading authority and representative on insurance sustainability and social impact matters.

Your main responsibilities are:

  • Define and drive the Group-wide strategy for innovative products, responsible underwriting, social impact, and DEI, setting the long-term vision, priorities, governance frameworks, and transformation roadmap to support the Company's business strategy and sustainable value creation.
  • Lead the integration of sustainability across the insurance value chain, partnering with Finance, Risk, HR, and business leaders to establish performance frameworks, governance standards, targets, and accountability mechanisms that drive measurable business and societal impact.
  • Advise senior leadership on strategic sustainability and insurance-related matters, providing thought leadership and recommendations to the Executive Committee and Board on ESG opportunities, risk appetite, underwriting principles, social sustainability, and long-term resilience.
  • Champion the Company's sustainability agenda internally and externally, strengthening organisational capabilities, fostering inclusive and socially responsible business practices, and representing the Company in industry forums, governance bodies, and key stakeholder networks.

The Successful Applicant

  • Master's degree, with at least 10 years of relevant professional experience, including substantial responsibility for Group-wide or enterprise-level sustainability strategy, business transformation, insurance products or underwriting, and regular engagement with Board and Executive Committee stakeholders.
  • A strategy consulting background within insurance (products) is essential (BCG, Bain, McKinsey or at least Big4)
  • Positive, pragmatic and creative mindset, combined with high standards for quality, governance and reporting.
  • Executive-level communicator and negotiator who can act as a primary strategic partner to Board, Executive Committee and Business Committee members, constructively challenge senior decision-makers, build durable Group-wide commitment and maintain an influential external network.
  • Fluent in English and willing to travel when necessary.

What’s on Offer

Opportunity to influence innovative product offering of a listed company, which is at the core of the company.

Contact
Trishya Bouman
Quote job ref
JN-102026-7136518

Job summary

Function
Policy, Economics & Regulatory Affairs
Subsector
Policy, Economics & Regulatory Affairs Subsector
Industry
Financial Services
Location
Brussels city
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
Trishya Bouman
Job reference
JN-102026-7136518
Job Nature
Home Office

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