Business Development Director - Insurance

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated over 28 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Our expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly changing Digital-First world we live in. We foster strong partnerships with leading technology giants including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of Version 1 and what we do :

• Premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• GPTW awards for 'Best Workplace for Women' & 'Best Workplace for Wellbeing'

We’re a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!

Job Description

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 and Property & Casualty 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 US.

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, customer experience, risk and operational optimization, regulatory compliance, and claims transformation.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Account & Pipeline Development

2. GTM Execution & Solution Positioning

3. Stakeholder Engagement & Relationship Management

4. Market & Competitive Intelligence

5. Collaboration & Enablement

Qualifications

Required Experience & Skills

Preferred Qualifications

Additional Information

Why Version 1?

Share in our Success  Excellent base salary plus commission with no ceiling & an opportunity to join our new V1 Equity success Scheme

Strong Career Progression  & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development review

Financial benefits  including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice

Ways of working  now  with remote & hybrid working options but there is always as a good excuse to get together too

Moments that matte r  & our enhanced maternity & paternity leave policies for life’s journey

A  large training budget  for accreditations and educational assistance for courses relevant to your role. Ways

Wellbeing activities : an innovative Well Tech Scheme,Yoga, sponsored marathon and local team sports

Version 1 Annual Excellence Awards    & our ‘ Call-Out’ platform where performance is called out and recognised

Our active ESG  & CSR  initiative allows you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.

PLUS, many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.

We are an equal opportunities employer.  Please refer to our Diversity & Inclusion statement located at :  Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging | Version 1 Careers

hugh.campbell @version1.com #LI-HC1