Territory Manager | California

Workers Compensation Territory Sales Manager | Central California

Preference given to candidates with work comp or P&C insurance sales experience in Fresno, Santa Barbara, Bakersfield

As a Territory Manager your primary focus is building relationships with the workers' compensation insurance agents in your area and maintaining the relationships internally with your work comp underwriting team. The goal is to be the work comp expert, the one that your agents come to with any workers' compensation questions and opportunities. If you’re knowledgeable with workers' compensation and have great agent contacts in Central CA
APPLY today!

• Assists the region in meeting or exceeding premium goals in a focused, efficient and profitable manner consistent with our financial goals.
• Creates and sustains a producer management process that prioritizes our customer focus.
• Monitors and evaluates our external market for new products and processes.
• Assists with the development of education and training programs for our customers, our underwriters, our loss control consultants and our claims examiners in order to improve efficiency, sales and financial results.
• Completes annual producer profiles and confirms that appropriate action plans are established.
• Operates in cooperation with our internal organization in developing new automated efficiencies, on-line products and improved customer communications. Maximizes usage of all current online systems, products and services.
• Performs necessary and regular agency calls in order to maximize production efforts and to keep the producers up to date on company products and services. Assists in the development of the producer/underwriter relationship.
• Actively prospects quality new appointments and terminates those agencies that do not meet the needs of the company as agreed.
• Acts as a facilitator, trainer and problem solver in working with agencies. Follows-up on outstanding eAccess issues to make sure critical concerns are properly resolved.
• Conducts agency audits on a scheduled basis as needed. Recommends appropriate action based on audit results.
• Potential national travel opportunities.
• Produces a monthly report identifying key trends in competition and individual producer information verifying the producer management process.
• Develops and coordinates producer functions to facilitate production and company/producer relationships.
• The Territory Manager acts in conjunction with:
  The corporate business appetite and underwriting to provide and monitor the amount and quality of new opportunities.
• Works with work comp Loss Control, Underwriting, Claims departments to coordinate the attainment of our production plan.
• Makes selection decisions in the field to facilitate the quality and quantity of new business application flow.
• Other duties as assigned or as situation dictates.

• Bachelor's Degree
• Five years of insurance and/or sales experience (preferable Workers' Compensation Insurance experience).
• A Territory Manager is capable of working with limited direction.
• A technical problems solver with enough workers’ compensation rating bureau knowledge to discuss and solve audit, collection and some underwriting problems.
• Possesses excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Valid state driver's license and good driving record
• Strong organizational skills
• This focused and goal-oriented position requires someone who possesses sales skills and who can influence others through strong negotiation techniques.
• Ability to interact effectively with all levels of personnel and represent the Company professionally, both internally and externally.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Proven sales skills in the Insurance industry

$87,000 - $120,000 Base Salary + Quarterly Bonuses + Car Allowance + comprehensive benefits package. Please follow the link to our benefits page for details, too many to list!

• Travel throughout the territory via car or air for extended periods of time
• Working conditions are normal for an office environment.
• Sits for periods of time.
• Frequent use of…