Insurance Sales Manager

Insurance is an important and growing business area in Santander and a strategic pillar for our future growth.

We are looking for an Insurance Sales Manager who is motivated by building relationships, creating momentum, and turning opportunities into results. In this role, you will take ownership of insurance sales performance in Sweden and play an important part in strengthening a business area with ambitious growth plans.

Working closely with colleagues across the Nordics, local commercial teams, operations, legal, compliance, marketing, and external partners, you will help increase sales, enhance customer journeys, and create engagement across multiple distribution channels.

The role is based at our Stockholm office and requires some travel within Sweden, as well as occasional travel across the Nordics.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Drive and maximize insurance sales performance across dealership, telemarketing, and digital channels, ensuring delivery against sales targets and conversion goals.

• Support the execution of the Nordic Insurance strategy in Sweden by identifying growth opportunities, improving partner engagement, and developing commercial initiatives.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with dealerships, external partners, and internal stakeholders to increase engagement, activity, and sales performance.

• Optimize customer journeys, sales processes, and funnel management to improve conversion while ensuring compliance with applicable regulations.

• Monitor, analyze, and report sales and portfolio performance, using insights to identify opportunities and drive continuous improvements.

• Deliver training, sales support, and product knowledge to partners and sales teams while contributing to marketing campaigns, sales materials, and incentive initiatives.

Skills required in this role

You are someone who enjoys creating results through collaboration, relationship building, and a strong commercial mindset. You are energized by helping others succeed, identifying opportunities, and continuously improving sales performance.

Personal characteristics

• Commercially driven with a strong focus on achieving results.

• Confident communicator with the ability to influence and engage a wide range of stakeholders.

• Proactive, structured, and solution oriented.

• Collaborative team player who builds trust and long-term relationships.

• Comfortable working in a dynamic environment with multiple priorities.

• Motivated by continuous improvement and business growth.

Competencies and skills

• Strong sales, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

• Good understanding of sales processes, funnel management, partner activation, and performance follow-up.

• Ability to analyze sales performance and translate insights into concrete actions.

• Strong relationship-building skills across internal and external networks.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

• Fluent in written and spoken Swedish and English.

Experience and education

• Proven track record of delivering sales results and driving commercial performance.

• Experience working with partner-based sales models and customer-facing distribution channels.

• Knowledge of insurance products, services, and distribution models is highly valued.

• Minimum two years of relevant experience within insurance, financial services, automotive finance, or sales and distribution.

• Experience with dealership, telemarketing, or digital sales channels is considered an advantage.

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Insurance, or a related field.

Interested in this opportunity?

We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. We review applications and conduct interviews on an ongoing basis over summer, so we encourage you to submit your application early and no later than 16 August 2026.

If you have any questions about the role, feel free to contact the hiring leader Oskar Karlsson via email [email protected].

We offer:

• An opportunity to work in a large, high-performing international company, in a dynamic environment that is constantly changing.

• A corporate culture that is professional, yet informal, customer and value driven.

• Highly competent and dedicated co-workers with strong collaboration across the Nordics.

• A high level of diversity and multi-cultural working atmosphere.

• A strong focus on learning and development.

• Multiple sports and social events.

We perform background checks on all relevant candidates. For positions that require authorization and/or confirmation of suitability, a police certificate of good conduct and credit check must be presented. Background check is carried out with prior consent from the candidate.