Summary:
This role will be seeking new business opportunities and maintaining relationships with existing clients. This role may be segregated specifically into a New Business or Retention Business focus.
This role strictly adheres to our Corporate Standards of Excellence and procedural guidelines spelled out in our Professional Procedure Manual.
Essential Job Functions:
- Generate leads and pursue new client opportunities. Prospect for business based on your local networks, connections, and communities; send referrals to other departments.
- Develop strong Centers of Influence, network to develop new business opportunities; responsible for meeting or exceeding new business goals set annually.
- Complete and/review the large client survey to gather all pertinent information and work with your assigned account management team to review current policies.
- Develop and maintain active expiration lists through internal and external sources.
- Achieve trusted advisor status with clients, provide professional risk management advice to prospects and clients.
- Maintain and foster strong business-to-business relationships.
- Maximize growth and retention by providing exceptional customer service to clients.
- 8. Make arrangements with clients to ensure premium payment on a timely basis and be responsible for management of collections for assigned accounts.
- Conduct renewal strategy meetings at renewal to address coverage gaps, limit adequacy, and provide industry and insurance trends.
- Obtain information for quotes and, if applicable, work with the marketing team to obtain quotes from the insurance marketplace.
- Provide input on renewal premium negotiations with account management team.
- Work with assigned account management team to prepare proposals and present to prospects and clients.
- Work with assigned account management team to set renewal timeline and complete pre-underwriting, information gathering, submissions, coverage analysis, and proposal presentations if needed.
- Conducts proposal meeting with client.
- Utilize company systems as applicable; Sagitta, ImageRight, Helix.
- Develop accounts and cross-sell available products and services.
- Performs other duties as assigned.