Strategic Account Manager

Pie's mission is to empower small businesses to thrive by making commercial insurance affordable and as easy as pie. We leverage technology to transform how small businesses buy and experience commercial insurance.

Like our small business customers, we are a diverse team of builders, dreamers, and entrepreneurs who are driven by core values and operating principles that guide every decision we make.

As a Strategic Account Manager, you will be responsible for innovating and managing acquisition and the overall partner experience to ensure substantial and profitable growth with strategic partnerships. These partnerships include high volume partnerships including but not limited to Wholesale, or other complex partnership structures. The role is accountable for the identification and development of new partnerships while managing and strengthening existing relationships.

Managing these partners mandates a strength in strategic planning to maximize the growth and relationship between the partner and Pie. As an extension of Pie, these distribution partners must operate with a customer first mentality and share Pie’s goal for disciplined profitable underwriting.

Build and engage with outside agency partnerships:

• Gain a thorough understanding of locations, organizational hierarchy, competitive markets, agency premiums and policies, agency focus, needs, and pain points, commission agreements, strategic initiatives, and key stakeholders by developing a Multi-Tier relationship plan .
• Identify profile gaps and complete our understanding of that agency, their workflows, how they operate, and individuals who will influence positive outcomes.
• Represent Pie in meetings with partners, seminars, trade shows and networking events including managing interdepartmental involvement to maximize the opportunities further.

Build, develop and manage relationships with strategic partners to drive profitable premium:

• Develop and maintain a complete understanding of the agency organizational hierarchy.
• Facilitate consistent and regular meetings with various levels of the agency - Executive Team, Leadership, Producers, and CSRs.
• Attend key agency meetings and producer conferences.
• Conduct field and virtual agency meetings.
• Manage portfolio tracking, reporting and execution to performance metrics and industry trends.
• Collaborate cross functionally to develop and execute best practices, process improvements, and strategic initiatives designed to benefit both partners and Pie-Oneers.