Director Market Sales

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The Market Director, Sales is responsible for managing all agency and broker relationships in an assigned territory. The Director owns the day to day relationships with agency, actively drives growth, enables account management, and ensures effective delivery of service. The Director performs a player coach function with individual contributor responsibilities for large, national clients and management responsibilities for small and medium clients, all accessed through agency and broker relationships.

The Director acts as the market leader for cultivating relationships, creating and pursuing opportunities, and driving the growth of Eye Med lives through the acquisition of new clients and the growth and retention of existing clients through agencies and brokerages.

• Exceeds membership and profit goals by implementing sales and retention plan in an assigned geographic region
• Manages an individual book of business of large accounts
• Supervises sales reps for small and medium accounts
• Develops strong relationships with key leaders in brokerage and consulting houses
• Develops strategic territory plan to ensure maximized opportunity for growth including both short and long term goals by understanding current market share and growth opportunities
• Acquires new business and develops current and new brokers
• Recommends regional marketing strategies to grow Eye Med share, manages implementation, and analyzes results
• Leverages BI/CRM systems () to enable analytics, improve market intelligence, and drive performance
• Coaches, motivates, educates, and develops a sales team to maintain peak performance
• Continuously networks and interviews to identify and select strong talent in partnership with HR and recruiting
• Conducts performance management and talent development
• Works with leadership to proactively identify gaps, challenges, and opportunities
• Works with executive sales leadership team to access support functions so that deals are properly worked through the channels
• Collaborates to ensure optimal sales and account management performance within the broker space and on stand-alone direct opportunities
• Leads finalist presentations, client and broker meetings, events (e.g., lunch & learns, VIP events)

• Bachelor’s Degree in related business field
• 10+ years of experience in sales, with at least 2+ years in new business acquisition
• Track record of consistently exceeding assigned sales quotas/targets
• Ability to coach, develop and motivate high performing teams
• Strong leadership and organizational skills
• Strong business acumen with ability to align stakeholders and collaborate cross-functionally
• Possession of or ability to obtain required license(s) within sixty (60) days of hire Strong negotiation and influencing skills
• Ability to travel required

• 5+ years of experience selling insurance / benefit
• Deep knowledge of benefits industry, market and competitive trends

This posting is for an existing vacancy within our business. Employee pay is determined by multiple factors, including geography, experience, qualifications, skills and local minimum wage requirements. In addition, you may also be offered a competitive bonus and/or commission plan, which complements a first-class total rewards package. Benefits may include…