Sustainability Director

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Our organisation

Ageas is a listed international insurance Group with a heritage spanning of 200 years, offering Retail and Business customers Life and Non-Life insurance, and is also engaged in reinsurance activities. As an international insurance company, Ageas concentrates its activities in Europe and Asia through a combination of wholly owned subsidiaries and long-term partnerships with strong financial institutions and key distributors. Ageas ranks among the market leaders in the countries in which it operates. It represents a staff force of about 50,000 people and reported annual inflows of over EUR 19.6 billion in 2025.

Ageas aims to be a Great place to Grow for all its people, while always staying true to its four values: care, share, deliver and dare. Ageas strives to create a truly inclusive company – attracting the most talented people and offering a working environment where everyone feels they belong, collaborates to achieve our common ambitions and is recognized for their contribution. Ageas encourages its people to think and act differently, to speak up, to be themselves and to contribute their individual skills.

For Ageas, diversity and inclusion is a business imperative, providing us with the foundation to achieve sustainable business results across different markets.

Ageas has been re-certified as Top Employer in 2026.

The vibrant Ageas Corporate Centre in Brussels is home to a variety of Group level functions including, amongst others, Risk, Finance, Legal & Compliance, Investor Relations, Human Resources, Strategy, Business Development and Corporate Communications. It sets out the long term strategy for Ageas and coordinates numerous initiatives across the Group to help realise the strategic ambitions. The Corporate Centre also facilitates knowledge and skills sharing amongst its local operating entities and JV’s, creating strong connections and leveraging on local strengths. It represents the Ageas Group towards external parties, managing relations with analysts, retail and institutional investors, regulators, rating agencies and the media.

Your function

The objective of the function is to lead the insurance-related sustainability agenda for Ageas by embedding ESG (environment / social / governance) considerations into products, services and underwriting, while ensuring alignment with the Group sustainability strategy and evolving regulatory expectations.

Your main responsibilities are:

• Shape and deliver the ESG Products ambition as a core pillar of the Ageas sustainability strategy, in close collaboration with business entities in Europe and Asia.
  • Define the ESG Products roadmap for the next strategic cycle, including ambition level, priorities, target setting and delivery milestones.
  • Translate the strategy into concrete initiatives that stimulate innovation, support business development and strengthen Ageas’ market positioning.
  • Mobilise the ESG Products community by sharing external benchmarks, internal best practices and practical guidance across operating companies.
  • Keep ESG Products top of mind and actionable through stakeholder engagement, targeted learning initiatives with Ageas Academy, and regular internal and external communication.
• Ensure robust ESG Products performance management and reporting against agreed targets.
  • Safeguard the ESG Products methodology and calculation approach to ensure consistent application across businesses and compliance with external reporting requirements.
  • Consolidate business results at Group level and ensure high-quality internal and external reporting, including disclosures in the Ageas Annual Report and ESG rating requirements.
  • Monitor relevant regulatory developments, including CSRD, EU Taxonomy and related non-financial reporting requirements, and assess their implications for Ageas in collaboration with Legal and the Non-Financial Reporting Team.
• Embed ESG considerations into underwriting and ensure alignment with applicable regulations, frameworks and Group policies.
  • Ensure that ESG criteria are appropriately reflected in relevant Ageas policies and underwriting guidelines.
  • Advance the responsible underwriting approach, with particular attention to sensitive sectors, risk and consistent application across the Group.
  • Contribute to the insurance dimension of the Ageas Climate Transition Plan, including portfolio emissions measurement, reduction levers, standards monitoring and related disclosures.
• Contribute to the overall effectiveness, governance and thought leadership of the Group Sustainability team.
  • Support sustainability governance through input for the ESG SteerCo and status updates to the Board, Executive Committee and Business Committee.
  • Act as a centre of expertise on ESG topics by responding to internal and external requests and representing Ageas in relevant external bodies and expert networks.
  • Contribute to cross-cutting Group Sustainability initiatives, including double materiality analysis, social impact workstream and other strategic projects.

Your profile

• Master’s degree with a strong interest in sustainability.
• 12–15 years of relevant professional experience, combined with a strong understanding of insurance products, business processes and value chains.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to translate ambition into structured roadmaps, concrete initiatives and measurable delivery.
• Strong project leadership skills, with the capacity to work across cultures and mobilise colleagues around a shared ambition.
• Positive, pragmatic and creative mindset, combined with high standards for quality, governance and reporting.
• Excellent communicator able to navigate complex, multi-stakeholder topics and influence senior and expert audiences.
• Comfortable with reporting, digital tools and AI-enabled ways of working.
• Fluent in English and willing to travel when necessary.

We offer

• The possibility of (maximum 50%) home working;
• A dynamic, multicultural working environment;
• An interesting and extensive salary package (including meal vouchers, eco vouchers, hospitalization, disability and group insurance, additional child benefit, mobile allowance and intervention in the internet reimbursement, ...);
• The possibility to optimize part of your salary package through a flexible income plan;
• A corporate culture where you are encouraged to share your views and opinions;
• A flat organizational structure with close collaboration and communication with management and cross departments;
• A company car with charging card;
• An extensive range of learning & development opportunities through our online learning platform;
• The opportunity to further develop yourself and to be part of a great team at a Top employer in Belgium. Find out more about it here.
  
  

Interested?

Please apply online. We are looking forward to talking to you!