Business Development Director – Insurance
Listed on 2026-09-11
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Sales
Business Development
Company Description
Version 1 has celebrated
30 yearsinbusinessand continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Ourdeepexpertiseenables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat,Out Systems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.
Company Description
Version 1 has celebrated
30 yearsinbusinessand continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Ourdeepexpertiseenables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat,Out Systems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.
We’rean award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heartof whatwe do:
- UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
- 4000+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
- 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
- Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
- Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW
Job Description
Role Summary
We are seeking a commercially driven and domain-knowledgeable Business Development Director to accelerate our growth across the Insurance sector, with a focus on Life & Pensions, Broker and General Insurance segments. This role will drive pipeline origination, build executive-level relationships, and lead go-to-market strategies across insurers, reinsurers, brokers, and administrators in the UK.
The ideal candidate will possess deep industry knowledge of insurance value chains, emerging digital and data-driven capabilities, and the ability to position solutions that solve for core system modernization, process automation, customer experience, risk optimization, regulatory compliance, and claims transformation.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Account & Pipeline Development
- Identify, qualify, and target insurance accounts preferably across Life & Pensions, Broker, General and reinsurance sectors.
- Develop pursuit plans and account strategies aligned to policy administration, core process automation, claims, underwriting, and distribution modernization.
- Originate AI-led large transformation opportunities with Tier 2 and mid-sized insurers and brokers.
- GTM Execution & Solution Positioning
- Collaborate with solution architects and insurance domain SMEs to craft tailored value propositions.
- Lead workshops, bids, and presentations focused on AI-led automation, data modernization, legacy system transformation, and cloud adoption.
- Position techno functional solutions in areas such as intelligent document management, telematics-based underwriting, fraud analytics, and digital claims orchestration.
- Stakeholder Engagement & Relationship Management
- Establish trusted relationships with CIOs, Heads of Claims, COOs, and Chief Underwriters.
- Represent the organization at key insurance forums and regulatory round tables.
- Market & Competitive Intelligence
- Monitor industry trends including regulatory updates (NAIC, ORSA, NYDFS, Climate Risk mandates etc.).
- Identify whitespace opportunities based on competitor activity and technology adoption curves.
- Collaboration & Enablement
- Work with internal practices, cloud/data units, and partner ecosystems to develop domain-led campaigns.
- Enable sales enablement across the…
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