About the Company

When you work with us at LF Kalmar, you immediately become part of a strong, positive force in our local community. Our most important resource is our more than 240 dedicated employees - you and your colleagues, all contributing to our goal of being a leading player here in the region. Since our customers' best interests are our top priority, it is crucial for us to be as close to our customers as possible. Therefore, we have offices from north to south in our elongated region - in Västervik, Vimmerby, Oskarshamn, Kalmar, Nybro, and Borgholm.

Our everyday life is characterized by collaboration, community, and joy. But there is also something else that permeates how we think and act. Since we are owned by our customers, we always keep our customers' long-term best interests in mind. We simply believe in what we do and care about you as an employee to thrive and develop both professionally and personally. We are here for the region, here for the customers, and here for you.

Learn more about us: www.lansforsakringar.se/kalmar/privat (https://www.lansforsakringar.se/kalmar/privat)

Job Description

We are looking for a sales and results-oriented Business Area Manager who wants to help develop both our team and our brand. Here you will have a central role in driving strategic initiatives, developing banking and life insurance business, and strengthening our market position. At LF Kalmar, you have the opportunity to make a real difference – take the step and become part of our success journey!

As the Business Area Manager for Banking & Life, you are responsible for leading and developing your managers and employees towards set goals and ensuring their success. The business area consists of 55 employees, including five directly reporting managers. You have overall responsibility for the business area's growth, results, and operational work, while also being an important part of the company's management team. With us, you have the opportunity to combine a strategic holistic perspective with operational efforts.

The role, which requires a good overview and strategic ability, involves proactively exercising wise and present leadership, creating good conditions for employees, and coaching them to prioritize correctly. You lead through your group managers and support them in developing their teams, which are spread across six offices in the region. The role also includes reviewing and developing structures, processes, and strategies to ensure that the banking and life insurance business operates in line with LF Kalmar's business plan.

The banking operations are governed by a clear regulatory framework, which creates an exciting challenge in balancing requirements and processes between banking and insurance. You are responsible for ensuring compliance with regulations regarding AML, FPC, anti-money laundering, and fraud issues, while also driving long-term work to secure the future competence supply of the business.

You are expected to handle internal challenges, strengthen collaboration between banking, insurance, and claims, and refine a culture where we work towards common goals. Through your strategic and proactive leadership, you contribute to a sustainable and successful development of the organization.

The position is based in Kalmar, and you report to the CEO.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone with experience in leading a complex service operation where you have also been part of the management team. A pragmatic approach and willingness to work in change are good prerequisites for succeeding in your assignment. You have a relevant academic education and good insight and experience in the financial field.

The person we are looking for is accustomed to working both strategically and operationally and comes with confidence in all relevant processes. You are results-oriented and driven by working in a business-oriented manner, while it is important for you to work closely with your team with inclusive and inspiring leadership.

You have strong communication skills that you use to both explain and clarify strategic direction, but also as a tool to build relationships, networks, and collaboration in everyday life. You lead by listening, asking questions, and anchoring while diplomatically daring to challenge existing frameworks and approaches.

As our next colleague, you have extensive experience in leading and developing both managers and teams, with a particular focus on successfully driving change processes. You have a good understanding of the regulations and challenges within both banking and insurance operations and can navigate in this complex environment. You enjoy working cross-functionally and have the ability to create collaboration between different business areas.

Your Swedish language skills are good, both spoken and written.

A driving license (B) is a requirement for the position.

What do we offer you?

LF Kalmar is a down-to-earth yet dynamic and forward-looking employer. As the Business Area Manager for Banking & Life, you will be part of our management team and play a crucial role in creating conditions for close collaboration between our various departments. We offer a stimulating work environment where you can develop your leadership and contribute to our success in the market.

Seize the opportunity to become part of LF Kalmar and contribute to the development of the company and the region!

Does this sound interesting?

Our partner in this recruitment is the recruitment company NearYou. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact recruitment consultant Terése S Carlstedt at phone 0734-666 884 or email terese.carlstedt@nearyou.se.

You can submit your application via NearYou's website, www.nearyou.se (https://www.nearyou.se), no later than Sunday, April 20, 2024. In this recruitment, we will work with ongoing selection, so please send your application today.

Due to the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we ask you to exclude the last four digits of your personal identification number and any reference contacts in your application/CV. We do not accept applications via email.

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About NearYou

We are NearYou. We have gone from being a company among others to becoming a community actor. With us as a partner and employer, we promise to give more of what we are best at. We are best at being close, human, and a counterbalance to stress, people as statistics, and an overly impersonal digitalization.

We are with you, a handshake, a promise. We want to provide what we believe a broken job market needs. For you as a candidate, this means an actor who supports you regardless of where you are in your career and where you want to be. We want to be the security in a fast world. We support, challenge, and ask how it’s going. Quite naturally, we think.