Chief Sales Officer Full Time

Chief Sales Officer Germany (all genders) at BNP Paribas Cardif.

BNP Paribas Cardif is the insurance business of BNP Paribas with around 8.000 employees worldwide. Our employees are dedicated experts in payment protection, credit life and specialty insurance who, as part of the internationally active BNP Paribas Group, use their expertise and know-how to help shape a world in transition.

We protect our partners’ customers from some of the most challenging life situations.

BNP Paribas:

At BNP Paribas, everyone is on first-name terms, and we wear the clothes we feel good in. We live diversity, team spirit and sustainability. At BNP Paribas, you will find a secure job, plenty of space for your ideas and a suitable professional solution for your individual life situation. We are: The Bank for a Changing World. We – that’s around 178,000 employees in 64 countries.

Tasks & Responsibilities: What awaits you

• Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer Germany and leading a team of around 35-40 people, including seven direct reports in Sales Distribution & Marketing.
• Full ownership of the business development strategy for Cardif Germany, from definition to successful execution.
• Driving growth in Germany across Consumer Finance, Retail Banking, Automotive and Mortgage Protection through an ambitious internal and external growth plan.
• Managing and expanding large strategic partnerships, maintaining CEO-Level relationships and continuously identifying new business opportunities.
• Designing and innovating value propositions and distribution models together with IT & Operations, based on Partner needs, market trends and strong commercial practices.
• Leading the transformations of the Sales Distribution & Marketing organization, ensuring effective hierarchical management and sharing best practices across countries.
• Steering key business-development initiatives (including expansion of the automative footprint, strengthening banking partnerships and building the mortgage protection market)
• Being accountable for achieving GWP and NBI targets

Expertise & Soft Skills: What you offer

• Several years of experience in the German insurance market, combined with a strong professional network in consumer finance, retail banking, automative finance and mortgage markets.
• Ideally, proven experience in a CSO role (or a comparable Senior Sales position).
• A successful track record in business transformation projects within an insurance company (e.g. new market development, HR transformation).
• Strong ability to manage and further develop very large partnerships.
• Local presence in Germany, ensuring medium-term managerial stability.
• Preferably a German national, but we also welcome other nationalities with strong verbal and written communication and negotiation skills in both English and German, suitable for internal and external stakeholders.

You don’t meet every criterion? No problem, you are more than welcome to apply anyway. It is important for us that you can develop and grow in this position.

Diversity is a strength for us. We are convinced of the numerous advantages of diverse perspectives, experiences and competencies. Our aim is therefore to select candidates in an unbiasedly and open-mindedly: Your CV should contain information on your education and work experience – that’s all we need.

Benefits: What we offer you

• 30 days’ holiday and additional special leave days
• Work in the office and from home
• A wide range of opportunities for your development, such as internal and external training, talent development programmes and (inter)national career prospects within the BNP Paribas Group
• Allowances for Job Ticket Deutschland, car & bicycle leasing
• Company pension scheme with BVV
• Employee Assistance Program: Professional support and great offers for your private and family life from benefitatwork and voiio
• Insurance cover via group accident insurance and survivors’ insurance
• A wide range of offers for your health, such as access to over 6,000 sports and health facilities with EGYM Wellpass

Do you want to shape a changing world?

Apply now, in only 5 minutes.

Please send us your application documents exclusively via our online portal. Unfortunately, we cannot consider applications by email or on paper for the protection of your data.

Your contact person is Christine Schultz– we are on first-name terms.

If you have any questions, please send an email to Bewerbung@cardif.de

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