Manager Corporate Development (m/w/d)

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Role Profile

Position: Manager Corporate Development - Germany

Reporting to: Managing Director Germany

Location: Germany

About Hiscox

Who are we?

Hiscox is an international specialist insurer and reinsurer. We provide market leading products and excellent service to individuals and businesses with unusual and often complicated insurance needs. A FTSE 250 company, we can trace our roots to the Lloyd’s market in 1901.We employ over 1,700 highly professional staff, have offices in 11 countries and customers all over the world.

We cover reinsurance and insurance risks that range from marine, terrorism, aerospace, technology, media and professional indemnity through to high value personal insurance, such as homes and contents, fine art, luxury motor, and kidnap and ransom, and are market leaders in many of our chosen areas.

We are not a mass producer of insurance policies but focus on key areas of expertise and strength and we do business according to our core values of courage, quality, integrity, excellence and human.

The Hiscox Group is made up of the following business units:-

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  Hiscox London Marketunderwrites mainly internationally traded business in the London Market – generally large or complex business which needs to be shared with other insurers or needs the international licences of Lloyd’s.

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  Hiscox Reour combined reinsurance teams in London, Bermuda and Paris, provide market leading expertise and a wide range of reinsurance products to high-quality insurers around the world.

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  Hiscox Special Risksprovides specialist insurance and expertise for global risks including fine art, kidnap and ransom and terrorism

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  Hiscox USoperating since 2006 from six locations offering professional liability, specialty and property insurance. Hiscox US also provides small business insurance direct to consumers.

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  Hiscox UK and Hiscox Europeoffers a range of specialist insurance for professionals and business customers, as well as high net worth individuals and also provides home and small business insurance directly to consumers.

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  Hiscox Groupis the umbrella function that supports all areas of the organisation, home to our operations, IT, Finance, HR, Marketing, Communications and Modelling teams.

Our business philosophy

The best people

Any business is only as good as the people it employs, and we employ the best in the business. We empower our people to provide the type of insurance solutions which are often too complex for other insurance companies, and aim to provide our customers with a level of personal attention that standard insurers might not be able to.

We are committed to developing our staff through our graduate programme, mentoring, in-house and external training, and our professional approach to setting standards is best practice. We are also members of the Chartered Insurance Institute, which has a long history of championing professional standards within the industry, and many of our people have become – or are in the process of becoming – CII accredited.

The best clients

Hiscox has three vital questions for every risk - "Who is the insured? Who is the insured? Who is the insured?". Who we insure is as important as what we insure. Whatever the business, be it a global oil company or a one man professional practice, we are interested in the management and how the business is run. Our belief is that the good insured always pays too much, and the bad insured too little. By seeking out the good insures and avoiding the bad, we are able to offer wide cover at reasonable premiums.

Innovation

All of our products have been designed with our customers’ specific needs in mind. Creative use of technology has also improved distribution and enabled us to respond even more quickly and effectively to our customers. Unlike many of our competitors, Hiscox really is an organisation that thrives on change.

Key responsibilities

Strategic Planning

• Lead for Germany 5 year planning and Vision 2030 process considering market seizing, technological enablers and organisational development aspects
• Ensure transfer of corresponding growth ambitions into integrated retail traded and retail digital strategy including alignment with digital enabler and profitability initiatives
• Drive design, implementation and monitoring of 2022 Roadmap from strategic conception, operational implementation to controlling
• Permanent member of the German Management Team Meetings

Organisational Development

• Regular review and analysis of internal and external data to identify growth potential and necessary planning adjustments
• Ensure transparency regarding achievement of strategic goals and development of the company including preparation of strategic decisions and recommendations
• Identify strategic partnership and assess relevance for the company
• Management of organisational development team, innovation hub and projects

Management and Group Reporting Germany

• Preparation of quarterly country check-in Germany
• Lead for Operating Plan process
• Coordination of Board Report inputs and ad-hoc requirements

person specification:

Key requirements

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  Successfully completed business administration or economics degree
• At least five years of professional experience in the insurance sector with market responsibility
• Leadership experience in managing teams with market responsibility
• Proactive strategic thinker with foresight, commercial mindset and at ease with analysing data.
• Able to work in a non-structured environment that may involve some flexing of working hours to accommodate business needs
• Credible across the business and able to build strong relationships across all units
• High proficiency or near fluency in English and fluency in German
• Ability to travel

Why Hiscox?

It is a fantastic opportunity to join Hiscox during a time of focused growth where you will have the remit to make a real difference.

Hiscox offers an environment where you are encouraged to grow with the team in a fast growing organisation. There will be plenty of opportunity for on the job career development within a supportive environment.

Hiscox is a company that invests in its employees training. You are encouraged to develop/learn on areas you feel you can improve. With a European role you are likely to visit most of Hiscox offices across Europe to meet the business as well as provide training.

Finally, but very important to highlight, Hiscox has a great working environment where you are encouraged to communicate pro-actively.