Automotive Development Director, Continental Europe
Location: Remote working role in the Frankfurt and/or Cologne region
** Fluent German speakers only please **
The Opportunity:
Reporting to the European Business Development & Commercial Director, you will help accelerate Assurant's automotive growth across target European markets including Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. You will work with local teams to identify, secure, and launch strategic partnerships that expand Assurant's footprint across Continental Europe.
You will bring deep automotive expertise, a structured approach to market development, and the ability to coordinate cross‑territory growth plans. You will be a bridge between local market opportunities and Assurant's broader European Auto strategy, ensuring understanding, consistency, and disciplined execution.
Given the multi‑market nature of the role, proficiency in English is essential plus fluency in the local language to build relationships with local OEMs, dealer groups, and industry partners.
You will:
- Support the development and lead implementation of Assurant's automotive growth strategy across Continental Europe.
- Coordinate cross‑territory growth plans, ensuring understanding of Auto strategy and broader European goals.
- Support the full sales cycle for Continental Europe: prospecting, solution shaping, proposal development, negotiation, contracting, and launch.
- Develop a high‑quality pipeline across target markets, using Salesforce to guide transparency and discipline.
- Develop tailored win strategies for each market, reflecting local dynamics
- Work with UK and European teams — Product, Underwriting, IT, Operations, Compliance — to shape market‑appropriate solutions.
- Partner with Marketing to create multilingual, data‑led campaigns that resonate with local audiences.
- Support seamless handover to Account Management teams and ensure delivery of client commitments.
- Represent Assurant at main European automotive events, building a network across OEMs, dealer groups, and industry associations.
- Monitor and interpret market trends, regulatory changes, and shifts across Continental Europe.
- Provide insight‑led recommendations to influence product development, commercial strategy, and investment decisions.
You Will Have:
- Deep experience in the automotive sector, with direct exposure to Continental European markets (OEM, dealer group, or major supplier).
- Experience with automotive trends, market dynamics, customer behaviour, and distribution models across Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and wider Europe.
- Working knowledge of insurance, financial services, or warranty models, including relevant European sales processes and regulations.
- Ability to analyse market data and translate insights into commercial strategies, product opportunities, and growth plans.
- Experience driving commercial growth and securing new business in multi‑market environments.
- Experience of sales‑cycle ownership: prospecting, solution design, proposals, negotiation, contracting, and launch.
- Experience with structuring and implementing win‑win partnerships with commercial and P&L understanding.
- Ability to build and manage a disciplined pipeline, using Salesforce or equivalent platforms.
- Ability to coordinate cross‑market plans, ensuring understanding of European Auto strategy.
- A proven track record in stakeholder management across multiple functions such as Product, Underwriting, IT, Operations, and Compliance in a matrix environment.
- Fluency in English, with additional fluency in either German, Dutch, French, Spanish or Italian.
- Be able to navigate cultural nuances and build trusted senior relationships across European markets.
Benefits & Training
- Performance Bonus Scheme
- 10% Pension
- Car Allowance
- Mobile phone and laptop
- Flexible Working
- Learning and Development opportunities
- Additional benefits will differ per country
Who are we?
Assurant, Inc. is a global leader in business services for the connected world. Our lifestyle and housing solutions help leading brands grow revenue, manage risk and provide a great experience for their customers. We support, connect and service over 300 million consumers worldwide, helping people get more value from their connected devices, vehicles and homes. Assurant is a proud member of the Fortune 500, with decades of experience in the industries we serve.
Our Values:
Common Sense, Common Decency, Uncommon Thinking and Uncommon Results guide our every action at Assurant. These values inspire our commitment to be a responsible corporate citizen.
At Assurant, diversity helps us inspire creativity in the global marketplace, and we are believers in the strategic value of inclusion and how it improves performance, creates growth opportunities, better aligns us to our clients, and enhances employee engagement.
We look forward to receiving your application!
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