Business Strategist

You will get approximately 900 colleagues who all believe they work at a special company. You will get the opportunity to make a significant contribution to the socially relevant theme of pensions. We ensure that your pension is well-arranged, so that you can enjoy your old age without worry.

You will get the chance to truly make a difference when it comes to sustainability, because we have been setting the tone in our business operations and our investments for years. Naturally, you will get a (flexible) workplace at our office in Amsterdam that belongs to the top 7% in the world, truly. And because you will also work from home regularly, you will receive a budget to properly equip your home workspace.

In exchange for your commitment, talent, and skills, you will receive, in addition to your salary plus a holiday allowance and a thirteenth month, 27 vacation days (based on a 36-hour contract) and a public transport card or travel expense allowance for the days you come to the office. And, not unimportantly, you will receive a good training budget so that you can continue to develop yourself. This gives you the chance to grow, within our company or beyond.

Salary per month:
Based on collective labor agreement (CAO) scale 16 HAY, the range is € 5,082.02 to € 6,776.03 based on 36 hours.

A strategic role within an experienced team, with direct involvement in complex market and proposition issues where real impact can be made.

As a Business Strategist, you will be part of the Product-Market Strategy team within the Market & Propositions domain of Commerce. The team operates at the intersection of Business Strategy, Products, Legal, Customer Experience, Marketing, and Change, and plays an important role in developing the future market and proposition strategy of Zwitserleven.

You will seek close collaboration with corporate strategy, product managers, pricing specialists, marketers, and change and IT specialists. You will contribute to complex (strategic) issues and help translate market developments, customer insights, and strategic choices into concrete propositions, business cases, and growth directions. In doing so, you will be given the space to develop towards a more independent and leading role within strategic trajectories.

The team is functionally managed by the lead, and you will report directly to the Director Market & Propositions.

Purpose of the Role
You will work closely with the experienced strategists within the Product-Market Strategy team and will take an active role in preparing strategic choices regarding the pension market, individualization, choice guidance, and new growth opportunities. As your experience and knowledge increase, you will take on increasing independent ownership of strategic dossiers and trajectories.

Main Responsibilities

• Identifying market developments, customer needs, technological innovations, and competitive developments, and translating these into strategic insights and growth opportunities.
• Developing analyses, scenarios, and choice proposals for strategic issues within the pension and insurance market.
• Contributing to complex strategic decision-making by drafting business cases, decision-making documents, and management proposals.
• Contributing to trajectories in the fields of market development, innovation, propositions, and growth in collaboration with experienced strategists, with increasing independent ownership as you develop in the role.
• Developing new product-market combinations and commercial propositions, or further developing existing propositions based on customer insights, competitive analyses, data, and commercial opportunities.
• Elaborating business cases including commercial potential, customer value, operational impact, risks, and investment considerations.
• Contributing to a consistent translation of market strategy into product development and implementation.
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary stakeholders to prepare strategic choices and make them successfully realizable.
• Monitoring progress, dependencies, and decision-making within strategic trajectories and ensuring structured follow-up of actions, analyses, and management decisions.

We believe that our people make the difference. Through the knowledge and experience they bring, but also through who they are.