Commercial Lines Auto Products Director (hybrid/remote)

Grange Insurance; Columbus (OH); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid/Remote options

Competitive traditional benefits

Cultural appreciation holiday

Family formation benefits

Compassionate care leave

Bereavement leave

Job summary

Grange Insurance, based in Columbus, OH, seeks a leader to strategically position auto products, drive profitability, and differentiate offerings for customers and agents. Role could be director or manager level based on experience, with hybrid/remote options and a focus on growth across Commercial Lines.

Responsibilities include building business plans, leading cross-functional teams, overseeing pricing and product contracts, ensuring regulatory compliance, and guiding strategic initiatives for

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree or CPCU strongly preferred.
• Minimum 1 year of product management with P&L responsibility in commercial auto.
• Multiple years of commercial underwriting experience preferred.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills; data-driven decision making.
• Ability to lead a collaborative, high-performing team and execute strategy.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement business plans to maximize Commercial Lines' auto profitability and growth.
• Lead and motivate a team across departments influencing results.
• Set and execute strategy for product development, pricing, contracts, and CAT mitigation.
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and underwriting to adopt new technologies and practices.
• Oversee development of new programs and niche classes with underwriting leaders.
• Lead compliance for Auto product lines ensuring pricing follows regulations.
• Lead competitive analysis and monitor industry trends.
• Communicate product strategies to underwriters, tech teams, and executives; to agents.

Job description

If you're excited about this role but don’t meet every qualification, we still encourage you to apply! At Grange, we value growth and are committed to supporting continuous learning and skill development as you advance in your career with us.

Summary: In this role you will be responsible strategically positioning Grange’s products and services for Auto products to meet customer and agent needs, building company revenues and driving differentiation.

Please note that this could be at Director or Manager level based on relevant experience.

What You’ll Be Doing:

1. With full accountability for product profit and loss, develop and implement business plans to maximize Commercial Lines’ profit and growth across the auto line of business.
2. Lead, motivate, and enable a team of professionals to accomplish business objectives. This includes indirect reports within Commercial Lines and any personnel in supporting departments (e.g., marketing, claims, information technology) who can impact/influence business results.
3. Establish and implement business strategy including: product development, pricing, and implementation processes (run-off and new products); underwriting guidelines; portfolio mix planning and results; development of product contracts, forms and endorsements; expense control (including commissions) and fee generation; bill plan selection and bad debt processing; and CAT mitigation efforts.
4. Work with Sales & Marketing and underwriting teams to help influence agencies to adopt new technologies and best practices in the sales and service of Commercial Lines products.
5. Oversee and lead development of new programs and niche classes in conjunction with Specialty Underwriting Leaders.
6. Lead the Commercial Lines compliance function for Auto product lines ensuring that products & rates follow all applicable statutes & regulations.
7. Lead the Commercial Lines competitive analysis function in assigned product lines. Keep current with industry trends and peer competitors’ actions.
8. Lead all communications around auto products internally to underwriters, techs, and upper management as well as externally to agents.

What You’ll Bring To The Company:

Bachelor’s degree preferred with advanced degree and/or professional designation (e.g. CPCU) strongly preferred. One or more years of product management profit and loss responsibility strongly desired with an emphasis on commercial auto lines of business. Multiple years of commercial underwriting experience strongly desired. Must have superior problem solving and analytical skills with proven ability to make data-driven decisions. Must have ability to develop and lead a highly collaborative and team-oriented environment. Ability to develop and execute a business strategy/vision required.

About Us:

Grange Insurance Company, with $3.4 billion in assets and more than $1.61 billion in annual revenue, is an insurance provider founded in 1935 and based in Columbus, Ohio. Through its network of independent agents, Grange offers auto, home and business insurance protection. Grange Insurance Company and its affiliates serve policyholders in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin and holds an A.M. Best rating of "A" (Excellent).

Grange understands that life requires flexibility. We promote geographical diversity, allowing hybrid and remote options and flexibility in work hours (role dependent). In addition to competitive traditional benefits, Grange has also created unique benefits based on associate feedback, including a cultural appreciation holiday, family formation benefits, compassionate care leave and expanded categories of bereavement leave.

Who We Are:

Grange values all the things that make us unique as human beings. We are committed to creating and supporting a workforce that reflects the richness of our differences by welcoming all backgrounds, viewpoints and lived experiences. To foster an inclusive environment, we are intentional in bringing those differences together for the good of our enterprise, associates, agents, customers and community.

Our Associate Resource Groups help cultivate an inclusive workplace while providing professional and personal growth opportunities. Open to all associates, these voluntary groups celebrate shared experiences and perspectives across ethnicity and race, nationality, generation, gender identity and sexual orientation. Our groups include the Multicultural Professional Network, Pride Partnership & Allies, Women's Group and Young Professionals.

Established in 2016, our Inclusive Culture Council advances professional development, networking, business value and community outreach.Together, we create opportunities to learn from one another, encourage innovation and build a culture where everyone can contribute and grow.

Our commitment to inclusion is grounded in our core values: Be One Team, Deliver Excellence, Communicate Openly, Do the Right Thing and Solve Creatively for Tomorrow.

Equal Opportunity Employer
We are committed to maintaining a discrimination-free workplace in all aspects, terms and conditions of employment and welcome the unique contributions that you bring from education, opinions, culture, beliefs, race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, handicap, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ancestry, pregnancy, veteran status, and citizenship.