Producer, Commercial Lines

Location: Wexford

Job Type

Full-time

Description

What does it mean to be part of one of the fastest-growing independently owned insurance agencies in the country?

It means joining a company that believes success is built on strong relationships and an intentional, values-driven culture. It means bringing your creativity and talent to the table-because here, your contributions help shape the direction of the company.

If you think outside the box, swim upstream, enjoy being part of a fun, upbeat team, and want to make a real difference in people's lives-we guarantee, OVD is the place for you.

What's in it for you?

• Competitive Compensation & Benefits - Strong packages that reflect our commitment to our team.
• Ample Growth Opportunities - A clear path for professional development and advancement.
• Workplace Flexibility - Enjoy a hybrid workplace schedule to support a healthy work-life balance.
• Culture that Connects - A supportive team environment, opportunities to volunteer with local nonprofits, and time to connect outside of work.

Position Summary:

A Producer is responsible for developing their territory by obtaining new clients and maintaining existing client relationships. This role develops and fosters business relationships; utilizes those relationships to create opportunities for OVD's advisory services; acts as a solutions provider for clients when things go wrong; and is accountable for the entire client relationship.

Here's what you'll do:

• Obtains new clients by cold calls, drop-ins, emails, social network selling, and inbound lead development.
• Handles all business development activities including networking, events, client relations and social engagements.
• Spends time out of the office developing relationships with COI's.
• Focuses on client education, renewals, carrier negotiations, client strategy development, and insurance policy analysis.
• Stays on top of continuing education and maintaining expertise on industry subject matter.
• Builds strong relationships with our carrier partners in order to best position the company for client negotiations when needed.
• Collaborates with other departments when issues arise for quick resolution.
• Conducts internal strategy meetings on client accounts with account management team.
• Proactively communicates with clients, email responses, account coordination, service monitoring, etc.
• Develops strategies with sales team to increase revenue generation.
• Any other duties and tasks that are required by the Company.
• Limited Direction:
  Works from overall policies, goals, and budgetary limits. Virtually self-supervising with direct accountability for final results.
• No supervision:
  No supervisory responsibilities.

Requirements

Here's what you'll need:

• Associate's degree or higher preferred.
• One (1) to two (2) years of experience in a sales or marketing role.
• P&C license required.
• Ability to work onsite in a full-time or hybrid capacity (management discretion).
• Excellent interpersonal skills. Warm, approachable, savvy, and empathetic. Creating trust is a key function of this role.
• Drive. Ownership. Accountability. Passion.
• Ability to conceptualize and think creatively. Open to exploring new ways of approaching work that can improve results, accuracy, and efficiency.
• Extremely strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to translate "technical speak" in a way that end users at all levels can understand.
• High energy work ethic with ability to work independently while maintaining excellent customer relationships.
• Ability to work collaboratively with others.

Core Competencies:

• Accuracy:
  Achievement of correct and precise work.
• Accountability:
  Acceptance of responsibility and one's own actions.
• Written Communication:
  Ability to write letters, reports, articles, and e-mails using clear and concise vocabulary, style, grammar, and punctuation.
• Customer Orientation: A desire to serve clients by focusing efforts on listening and responding effectively to customer questions, resolving customer problems to their satisfaction, and evaluating customer satisfaction.
• Problem Solving:
  Ability to recognize courses of action which can be taken to handle problems or potential problems and applying contingency plans to solve those problems.

Work Environment & Physical Requirements:

The work environment and physical demands described here are representative of those that may be encountered and must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Low to Moderate noise (i.e. business office with computers, phone, and printers)
• Ability to work in a confined area.
• Ability to sit at a desk for an extended period.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, reach, stoop, kneel, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone and keyboard.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to…