Director Market France (all genders)

Your Responsibilities

As a Director Market, you will help us grow FRIDAY s business by steering our French Marketing & Business Development activities with a clear focus on generating sales at sustainable unit economics. You will also be monitoring and driving our performance on price comparison websites and establishing value-accretive partnerships. In addition to that, you will be the key interface between the local business and the central (digital) product development. You will have an instrumental role in strengthening FRIDAY s market position in our business line(s) and the wider market context (e.g. the French real estate market), helping us achieve our goal of becoming Europe s leading digital insurer.

We are looking for a talented and results-driven individual with a deep understanding of the insurance (and ideally the real estate) market who is eager to actively shape the future of insurance.

Sounds interesting? Here s some more info on what your role will look like:

Your responsibilities:

• Lead: Managing a small team of experienced Marketing and Customer Service professionals to continuously improve customer acquisition, care, and retention in order to help FRIDAY reach its ambitious growth targets.
• Market: Defining an adequate marketing/ media mix (above and below the line) to effectively reach and mobilize our target market segments to buy our products with sustainable and profitable unit economics.
• Partner: Identifying growth accelerating opportunities, focusing on channel-, product- or service-related (ecosystem) partners to extend our value proposition including the implementation and maintenance of those partnerships.
• Track: Monitoring and optimizing commercial performance across organic and in-organic sales channels.
• Prioritize: Consolidating local business needs/ requirements, giving them a clear rank order (based on business value) and interfacing with central (digital) product owners to ensure implementation of the highest value initiatives for France.
• Collaborate: Reporting directly to the local Country Manager and liaising closely with FRIDAY s Chief Marketing Officer (dotted reporting line) and the Central Marketing team in Berlin.

Your ideal background and skillset

• Leadership: Proven track record of building and managing winning teams with a can-do and hands-on attitude.
• Experience: At least 8 years of relevant work experience in insurance marketing/ sales (or financial services) with a record of meaningful commercial impact, and a solid knowledge of the French real estate industry.
• Languages: You are fluent in French and English, both written and spoken.
• Analysis: Strong analytical skills, including being KPI-driven with great attention to detail and you enjoy working with data (e.g. business cases) to support your recommendations.
• Steering: Solid experience in managing projects/ programs with Tech implications and/ or developing digital products based on OKR methodology
• Collaboration: You enjoy working in a multicultural and diverse environment and are willing to contribute to creating an open, happy place to work.

What you can expect from us:

• A competitive remuneration offer including a flexible home office policy, an attractive vacation package, subsidized public transport ticket, health and life insurance package and lunch vouchers
• Receive a bonus of EUR 500 annually to set up your home office
• A modern workplace in the center of Paris, France
• Opportunity to work for one of the fastest rising InsurTech Start-ups in Europe
• Culture of diversity and creativity with smart and driven people who take pride in what they do__