Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Brightway Insurance is one of the fastest-growing insurance agency systems in the United States, supporting agency owners with comprehensive services. The Regional Sales Leader will partner with agency owners to drive business growth, provide strategic consulting, and coach sales agents to achieve sales and retention targets.
Responsibilities
- Develops regional growth strategies informed by 'agency profiles', market trends, and performance data
- Serves as a strategic lead for driving production across assigned agencies
- Be the main resource for agents to engage and drive production with new business policy sales
- Develop and coach sales agents within assigned agencies while proactively evaluating the sales skills of agents & implementing training strategies
- Proactively identifies retention trends and reviews individual agency results to identify new business sales trends and address quickly if needed
- Leads performance reporting for assigned region, providing forecasts, risk assessments, and strategic recommendations to leadership, including agencies in jeopardy of closure due to low productivity
- Drives weekly/daily sales meetings with agents to ensure prospect pipeline and production results are in line with assigned objectives
- Maintains documentation of activities and follows up in appropriate systems regularly and accurately
- Understands national & regional carriers’ appetite while educating agencies on how to capitalize on each
- Understands critical attributes of sales leadership, identifying positive sales behaviors and resolving any negative behaviors
- Participate in the Day of Discovery to explain role and agency expectations
- Participate in onboarding of new agents, when needed
- Collaborates with marketing to develop and optimize localized sales enablement tools and ensure agency adoption
- Ensure agencies understand and adhere to BW established quality standards
- Cultivates positive relationships with individual agencies
Skills
- P&C Licensed in home state required
- Ability to perform work with a high degree of accuracy, exceptional attention to detail
- Exhibit a sales mentality that drives results
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
- Superior interpersonal skills
- Excellent verbal and written communicator; must be able to convey ideas in a clear and concise manner
- Excellent independent judgment and decision making
- Ability to quickly gain an understanding of Brightway systems; regularly updates activities accurately
- Ability to learn, embrace and put into practice new concepts and skills as needed
- Superior ability to manage own time, activities and resources; models' behavior for others
- Can demonstrate Brightway values
- Superior ability to influence others, as a leader
- Demonstrates ability to consistently influence agents' behaviors
- This position requires a high school diploma and 6+ years of sales leadership experience, preferably in P&C insurance sales management
- A college degree is preferred
Company Overview
Brightway Insurance has re-invented the way people shop for insurance. It was founded in 2003, and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.brightway.com.