General Description: Inside/Outside specialty sales position. Responsible for driving new business sales, retention, and growing program specific business. In addition, responsible for managing assigned outside/inside sales team. This role will be a key part of the Leadership and Management teams to drive continuous revenue growth and achieve departmental sales goals.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for full-cycle recruitment, management, and development of 3+ Sales Producers. Includes monitoring staffing, performance management, and training.
- Provide leadership and coaching to generate revenue and sales goals. Assist with marketing and business plans to support sales strategies.
- Ensure team achievement of annual new business sales goals in our target market of companies as well as personal new business goal achievement.
- Meet with external centers of influence (COI) to act as a value-added service.
- Demonstrate technical knowledge necessary to communicate our solutions effectively to a noninsurance buyer.
- Develop a sales business plan and use effective prospecting strategies. Overcome sales obstacles on a prospect-specific basis.
- Build client and prospect pipeline. Champion client cross-selling initiatives for existing clients.
- Engage in meetings on earning and preparing for first appointments and closing business.
- Maintain a high degree of accuracy in agency management systems.
- Facilitate networking sessions to build COIs.
- Complete the sales due diligence process. Understand and explain USI’s competitive differentiation to clients and prospects.
- Build relationships with small business, Personal Risk, Commercial Lines, and Employee Benefits sales staff.
- Lead regular team meetings. Keep staff informed on industry trends, USI policies, and procedures.
- Support the sales department for assigned line of business to maintain department budget.
- Attend sales meetings, seminars, trade shows, networking, and customer and association events.
- Develop knowledge of USI’s product line, insurance concepts, and proprietary technologies.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- 2+ years of applicable sales experience and track record of sales success.
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required. College degree preferred.
- Must hold or will obtain Property & Casualty and/or appropriate business licensure.
- Management experience in a call-center environment is preferred.
- Experience with customer relationship management (CRM) platforms required.
- Personable, highly motivated, and goal oriented. Driven to achieve sales goals.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Detail-oriented. Strong planning and organizational skills.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite; including Word and Excel.
- Ability to travel to meet with identified COIs, networks, associations, prospects, and clients more than 50% of the time.
USI is committed to providing a full-suite of competitive benefits for our growing population and its diverse needs. We offer a wide range of health, welfare and financial benefits including medical, wellness, dental and vision, 401(k), flexible spending and health savings accounts, short and long-term disability, life insurance and other unique employer-sponsored and voluntary programs. USI also offers a generous paid family leave benefit as well as paid holiday time.