Business Engagement Specialist

Our Opportunity

In this role, you will play a pivotal part in the execution and delivery of a wide variety of initiatives within the Zurich Barcelona Technology Delivery Center (TDC) team. Your focus will shift from project execution to fostering strong business relationships, identifying opportunities, and co-creating value through initiatives that drive transformation, efficiency, and strategic alignment.

Key responsibilities

As a Business Engagement Specialist you will be responsible for:

• Acting as the primary interface between TDC and internal business stakeholders to understand strategic goals, operational challenges, and future needs.
• Building and nurturing relationships across departments to proactively identify business opportunities and co-develop solutions that drive value.
• Translating business needs into clear and actionable initiatives, collaborating with delivery teams to ensure alignment, prioritization, and timely execution.
• Facilitating cross-functional alignment and collaboration to drive transparency, accountability, and efficiency across initiatives.
• Supporting the development and execution of the TDC strategic roadmap, ensuring business engagement is embedded in planning and governance processes.

Your Skills and Experience

As a Business Development Specialist your skills and qualifications will ideally include:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Finance, or a related field.
• Experience in consulting, ideally with technology, digital transformation or project management components in it. Other backgrounds might be considered if the combination of experiences makes sense. 
• Exposure to financial industry and insurance in particular is not a must but will be a strong benefit. You need to be able to ask the right questions, understand the logic of business processes, understand where the value comes from in various steps of insurance value chain and how data can transform these processes
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills. You need to be a good listener and an empathetic person to be able to understand the business’s needs. You need to be able to communicate in a concise manner explaining IT solutions that are being offered to both technical and non-technical colleagues. 

• Strong ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously and deliver results under tight deadlines.

• Solid understanding of financial principles, with experience managing project budgets and tracking financial performance.

What we offer?

 As well as a competitive salary and a yearly bonus we offer:

• Option to work abroad up to 25 days yearly
• Over 300 euros to set up your home office and additional monthly home office allowance
• Wide range of internal and external trainings, including free English, German and Spanish classes depending on the needs
• Ticket restaurant or flexibility to exchange it for other benefits
• Life, accident, and Health Insurance
• Collective Life Retirement Plan
• 2000 referral bonus if you bring other talented people like you
• Special banking and insurance conditions plus Exclusive Employees discounts
• Functional diversity benefits
• Events: summer and Christmas party, different activities like hiking, investment, beach volley club and many more
• No dress code

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Primary work location is Barcelona, Poblenou. Please apply with your CV in English.

Who we are

Looking for a challenging and inspiring work environment where you can make a difference? At Zurich millions of individuals and businesses place their trust in our products and services every day. Our 53,000 employees worldwide form the basis of our success, enabling, businesses and communities to face a world of risk with confidence. Imagine if you could help people do this all over the world. You’d give them confidence and reassurance by protecting what they love most. It’s a big challenge, but you will be supported by a world-class team who believe in helping you to reach your full potential and deliver on our promises.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Zurich we are an equal opportunity employer.  We attract and retain the best qualified individuals available, without regard to race/ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability.

So be challenged. Be inspired. Help us make a difference.

You are the heart & soul of Zurich! 
 

At Zurich, we like to think outside the box and challenge the status quo. We take an optimistic approach by focusing on the positives and constantly asking What can go right? 

We highly value the experience and know-how of our employees and offer a wide range of opportunities across business areas to encourage you to apply for new opportunities within Zurich when you are ready for your next career step. 

Let’s continue to grow together!

• Location(s):  ES - Barcelona 
• Schedule: Full Time
• Recruiter name: Alvaro Gallego Zazo