Business Development Manager, BA Commercial

Business Development Manager to BA Commercial

Introduction

Business Area Commercial serves business customers up to 500 employees ranging from startups, family-owned, to large businesses. We are 1,500 dedicated insurance professionals across the Nordics managing a portfolio of over 25 billion sek across 460,000 customers. We follow businesses as they grow and succeed as well as through challenging times. In the business segment for insurance, we see increasing digital demands and we are dedicated to cement our position as the most caring insurer of people and businesses. Currently, we are in an exciting phase of integrating Topdanmark with our existing operations to become even stronger together by bringing the best of both worlds.

About the role

As a Business Development Manager, you will play a key role in enabling the achievement of our long-term strategic ambitions by working closely with the management group on various topics. You will work across the markets and customer segments to ensure we capitalize on best-practices and our Nordic scale. This is a role for someone who enjoys high-level strategic thinking while simultaneously driving efforts with relatively short-term impact - from assessing market characteristics and opportunities to facilitating and synthetizing workshops on prioritized topics. This role provides an opportunity to build a strong network across the whole organization that will yield a lot of possibilities for development and pursuing a career within the company.

More specifically, in this role you will

• Be part of a Nordic team that consist of four persons with background from management consulting

• Lead strategic and prioritized projects in Commercial and do deep-dives into selected topics

• Be part of the strategy and business planning process and ensure that we continuously work strategically with the right focus

• Conduct internal and external analysis to ensure we apply a fact-based decision making

• Collaborate with stakeholders from Product & Underwriting, Sales & Service, Digital & CRM, Private, Claims, and other units to evaluate and realize identified opportunities

• Proactively identify areas for improvement and make business cases

• Work closely with senior stakeholders and facilitate top management discussions and meetings

Who are you?

You are a proactive person with a strategic and entrepreneurial mindset that have a strong business acumen, with a background from management consulting or similar. You have a structured, analytical way of working, and it's natural for you to seek understanding of business operations through a combination of facts and figures. You know how to navigate complex problems and foster collaboration as well as able to build long-lasting relationships with your excellent communication skills.

You also have,

• A university degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field

• A couple of years relevant working experience from management consulting firm or equivalent

• Fluency in English and at least one Nordic language

• Ability to help others make complex things easy to understand

• Open-minded, approachable and positive personality that instill trust

We offer

In the same way that we place high demands on you as an employee, we also expect you to place high demands on us as an employer.

Here are some of the benefits of working at If:

• An including work environment where everyone is welcome

• Work life balance

• Career and development opportunities in the biggest insurance company in the Nordics

• Social activities, as well as highly skilled professional environment

• Possibility of hybrid workplace

• Health promoting workplace with e.g., wellness allowance and various sports activities

• Great insurance benefits

Additional facts and the recruitment process

Application deadline: Last date to apply is 18th of June 2025 . Note that we will be doing continuous screening and interviewing.

To apply for the position: Please attach your CV and answer the questions in the application form. Please notice that we are not able to process any applications via email.

Work location: This position is based in our Stockholm office and will report to Head of Business Development Commercial.

Travelling: Some travel in the Nordic countries will be required

Start: By agreement

Background checks will be done in accordance with the law in the country of employment.

If you have any question about the role, please contact Head of Business Development Commercial Clara Lorenius Andren, ... , +46 706792522.

We look forward to your application!