Senior Business Development Manager | Dubai, UAE

Allianz; Dubai; On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company is seeking a Business Development professional to lead efforts in negotiating and building relationships within their market. This role requires strong analytical and leadership skills, willingness to embrace innovation, and provides an opportunity to grow in a supportive environment. The company emphasizes professional development and a diverse, inclusive workforce.

Benefits

Personal and professional development courses

Work Well programs for health and wellbeing

Flexible work-life balance

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in Insurance industry required.
• Proven track record in Business Development roles.
• Fluency in MS Office and general internet navigation skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with Markets team and various internal/external entities.
• Strive for customer excellence and simplify processes.
• Empower team and provide clear direction.

Skills

Negotiation

Persuasion

Time Management

Judgment and Decision Making

Critical Thinking

Complex Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's / Master's Degree; MBA preferred

Tools

MS Office

Job description

What you do

This position reports to the Managing Director for Allianz Partners MEA and will coordinate mainly with the Markets team and across the board. The position also requires to coordinate closely with various entities internally and externally.

Key Responsabilities and skills:

• Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
• Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
• Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Judgment and Decision Making:Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
• Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Abilities:

• Flexibility: Is open to change and new information; adapts behavior or work methods in response to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles; effectively deals with ambiguity.
• Leadership: Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.
• Team Building: Inspires, motivates, and guides others toward goal accomplishments. Consistently develops and sustains cooperative working relationships

Work Activities:

• Selling or Influencing Others: convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.
• Communicating with Persons Outside Organization: Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail

Customer & Market Excellence:

• Strive for excellence at every touch point with the customer
• Foster state-of-art technical/operational knowledge and strive for continuous simplification

Collaborative Leadership:

• Empower the team and provide purpose and direction
• Develop people, provide feedback and care to employee wellbeing
• Collaborate and exchange best practice

Entrepreneurship:

• Act on opportunities, anticipate trends, take risk, and promote a culture that allows for honest failure
• Take ownership and responsibility
• Embrace innovation and a culture that allows to make decisions without fear of retribution

What you bring

• Bachelor' / Master's Degree; MBA preferred.
• 5+ years experience in Insurance industry a requirement. Sound experience in a new Business Development role, with demonstrated track record
• Fluency in MS Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint) and general internet navigation and research skills
• Legally permitted to work in the country of operations.

What we offer

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.

We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

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Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.
We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.
Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.

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