
Senior Vice President, Distribution
Westfield Health
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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About the role
- Spearhead client engagement to bolster profitable growth within key client segments, ensuring exceptional "client experience" through strategic planning, thought leadership, and relationship management.
- Lead the effort to raise corporate profile, effectiveness, and reputation by deepening and extending our agency/brokerage relationships:
- Support the overall strategic management of the key broker relationships.
- Developed under-served territories.
- Identify and qualify new broker relationships.
- Cultivate and sustain relationships with primary stakeholders within our top-tier accounts and their distribution allies.
- Drive key business development strategies (broker diversification, account targeting and cross-sell) in conjunction with our brokerage partners that maximize revenue opportunities across a wide territory.
- Actively manage meeting calendars, agendas and follow ups with our key agency partners.
- Interact and develop relationships with each key broker's "relationship manager."
- Design and implement client engagement strategies in tandem with profit center leaders.
- Facilitate client-centric advisory sessions, in partnership with profit center leadership and marketing teams.
- Exhibit a thorough understanding of the Specialty commercial marketplace by staying well-informed about offerings, services, market positioning, and unique selling points.
- Collaborate with data analysts to pinpoint growth indicators, creating and enhancing data / tools to track progress and drive cross selling
Requirements
- Minimum of 10 years of industry experience with responsibilities encompassing: underwriting, product development, risk management, distribution strategy, needs assessment, and client relationship management.
- Highly visible and well known to the insurance community; Ability to establish relationships in the local brokerage community is mission critical.
- Deep understanding of agent/ broker's marketing and distribution strategies.
- Strong business development, client engagement and relationship management skills including account rounding, and retention relationship management, and business development skills.
- Experience optimizing CRM data and information
- Strong Project Management, Sales and Presentation Skills a must
- Demonstrated communication skills to interact well with Senior Management & external partners
- Demonstrated attention to detail and accuracy
- Robust problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiating skills
- Displays initiative and ability to work independently
- Ability to travel as needed, approximately 25% - 30% of time
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
underwritingproduct developmentrisk managementdistribution strategyneeds assessmentclient relationship managementCRM optimizationbusiness developmentaccount roundingpresentation skills
Soft Skills
client engagementrelationship managementcommunication skillsattention to detailproblem solvingconflict resolutionnegotiating skillsinitiativeindependent workorganizational skills