Business Development Director (Remote)

Bringing the knowledge that we are the best in the industry at protecting traveling Canadians and travelers coming into Canada, you will identify new and emerging opportunities across multiple channels for us to assist and care for more travelers during their travel emergencies through strong business partnerships.

Leveraging your expertise in relationship management and sales, you will drive new business development by showcasing the Allianz Advantage through proactive outreach, impactful meetings, trade shows, and industry events, while identifying and implementing creative strategies to expand the market.

This role offers the flexibility to work remotely from any major city in Canada or its surrounding areas, while reporting to our head office in Cambridge, Ontario.

What You Will Do:

• Manage and grow the company’s sales revenues in the online, supplier and distributor markets in the travel industry from new and existing clients and new and existing services. Participate in the development of marketing efforts in the market.
• Identify emerging markets and channels where we can assist.
• Represent the company at industry functions.
• Recommend new products to the product development team that address new and evolving business opportunities.
• Identify new opportunities, prospect for new clients, develop and present proposals, negotiate and close agreements, recommend and implement profitable strategies.

What You Will Bring

• College University Diploma/Degree or equivalent education, training, and experience.
• Background in business management and/or sales and marketing coupled with a minimum of five (5) years of experience in sales, preferably in the insurance industry.
• Knowledge and understanding of industry, market, client, business development trends.
• Knowledge of innovative client management, sales, and business development strategies, and demonstrated ability to achieve ambitious goals.
• Demonstrated success with creative problem solving, consensus building and managing diverse interpersonal relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to acquire new opportunities from cold status. Demonstrated ability to drive client retention and growth.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills coupled with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with a variety of individuals at varying levels.
• Demonstrated ability to take responsibility for assigned tasks and shows initiative to suggest improvements to processes and procedures.
• Travel Requirements: Must have a valid drivers’ license, personal vehicle, valid passport and be available for travel up to 50% of the time.

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

60955 | Sales & Distribution | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent

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.