Country Manager Switzerland (m/f/d)

About the job

Muttenz, Hybrid

Welcome to Real Garant

People make the difference – that is what we at Real Garant are convinced of.

We believe that sustainable success arises where people work together appreciatively, take responsibility and grow together – with the aim of achieving ambitious goals and developing innovative solutions.
As a subsidiary of Zurich, we have been one of the leading specialists for customer loyalty in the automotive industry in Europe for over 35 years. Today, renowned manufacturers, car dealerships and importers throughout Europe trust our solutions. Together with more than 280 colleagues at eight locations, we actively shape the future of our industry.
Sounds like an environment where you want to make a difference and develop yourself further? Then we look forward to getting to know you.

To strengthen our team in Switzerland, we are looking for you as Country Manager Switzerland (m/f/d)

Your tasks in the team:

• Business and sales strategy: You implement the business and sales strategy as well as the business and financial plans for the Swiss market in close coordination with management.
• Business development: You analyse business development based on relevant key figures, identify growth potentials and jointly manage the implementation of agreed measures with our external sales partner to ensure sustainable growth of our portfolio.
• Stakeholder management: You maintain professional stakeholder management and are the contact person for our sales partner, Zurich Switzerland and the headquarters in Germany. You ensure a trusting collaboration and align the interests of all parties involved.
• Leadership: You lead the Customer Support team directly and develop your employees professionally and personally.
• Organisation: You ensure smooth operational business by promoting cross-functional collaboration with clear roles, responsibilities and efficient processes.
• Knowledge transfer: You strengthen cross-departmental knowledge exchange and create a culture of active know-how transfer and continuous improvement.
• Representation: You represent our company in the Swiss market and contribute significantly to the long-term success of our business through entrepreneurial thinking and action.

What we expect from you:

• Professional foundation: You have successfully completed a higher professional examination/training, e.g. in the field of insurance, technical business administrator (m/f/d), higher technical college for business or similar.
• Experience: You bring several years of professional and leadership experience in a comparable management function – ideally in the insurance, financial services or automotive industry.
• Strategy: You have experience in implementing business and sales strategies as well as managing a profitable business area based on relevant business management key figures.
• Entrepreneur: You think and act entrepreneurially, recognise market potentials and derive effective measures for sustainable growth.
• Relationship manager: You have strong skills in stakeholder management and navigate confidently in the field of tension of different interests.
• Leadership: You convince as a leader with an appreciative, binding and motivating leadership style. You succeed in developing employees, successfully accompanying changes and promoting trusting collaboration.
• Working style: You work in a structured, decisive and solution-oriented manner and keep an overview even in a dynamic environment.
• Collaboration: You actively promote cross-departmental collaboration and knowledge transfer and understand how to align teams towards common goals.
• Communication: You communicate confidently and appropriately for the audience at all levels – both in German and English, French skills are an advantage.
• Willingness to travel: You are willing to travel within Switzerland as well as to our headquarters in Germany.

What we offer you:

• Your start at Real Garant: To make your start easier, you can expect an onboarding tailored individually to you
• Security: Through the connection to Zurich, you benefit from the security of a strong corporation
• Our corporate culture: At Real Garant you will find an appreciative working environment, mutual support and plenty of freedom for your ideas
• Further training: We promote your potential with targeted training opportunities for personal and professional development so that you can grow with us
• Work-life balance: We offer you flexible working hours, two days of home office per week and 28 days of holiday + additional days off at Christmas and New Year
• Additional benefits: Additional advantages await you such as an attractive pension scheme, employee events and numerous corporate benefits

An overview of our benefits can be found at Real Garant Versicherung AG - Careers .