Business Development & Digital Growth Associate - GatherGuard; Hybrid

Business Development & Digital Growth Associate
- Gather Guard (Hybrid)

Our employees are at the heart of what we do: helping people, businesses and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times. When you join our team, you are bringing this purpose to life alongside a passionate community.

Feel empowered to learn and grow while being valued for who you are. At Intact, we commit to supporting you in reaching your goals with tools, opportunities, and flexibility. It’s our promise to you.

At Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions, we are experts at what we do in protecting what makes businesses unique. Our deep understanding of the specialty insurance market is the foundation for our customized solutions, backed by targeted risk control and claims services. Our employees are passionate about providing insurance coverage that’s aligned to our targeted customer groups.

Intact’s Global Specialty Lines business spans across more than 20 verticals in four distinct markets: U.S., Canada, UK and Europe. The following opportunity is for our U.S. team.

We currently have an opportunity for a Business Development & Digital Growth Associate
- Gather Guard to join our Marketing team based in our Plymouth, MN;
Irvine, CA;
New York City, NY;
Southfield, MI offices on a hybrid schedule. Gather Guard is Intact’s digital insurance solution for small events, helping event hosts quickly obtain coverage commonly required by venues. We are looking for a curious, persistent, and analytically minded early-career professional to help grow Gather Guard’s venue partnerships and digital customer-acquisition channels.

This role combines hands-on business development with modern growth marketing. The associate will research prospective venues, conduct high-volume outbound outreach, establish venue referral relationships, support search-engine optimization and paid-search initiatives, and use approved artificial-intelligence tools to work more efficiently and personalize outreach at scale.

The right candidate will be comfortable picking up the phone many times each day, testing new ideas, learning from data, and being measured on results. Some of the Business Development & Digital Growth Associate responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Build and continuously improve targeted lists of venues, including banquet facilities, hotels, restaurants, community facilities, event spaces, wedding venues, sports facilities, and other organizations that require renters or event hosts to carry liability insurance.
• Conduct consistent outbound prospecting through telephone calls, personalized email, Linked In, and other approved channels.
• Explain Gather Guard’s venue value proposition clearly and simply, including how the platform can help venues direct event hosts to an efficient insurance-purchase process.
• Qualify prospective venues and guide interested contacts through the onboarding and activation process.
• Maintain organized follow-up sequences and continue engaging prospects through conversion or a clearly documented outcome.
• Strengthen production from existing venue relationships by identifying inactive or underdeveloped partners and supporting reactivation.
• Identify venue associations, municipal groups, event-industry organizations, and other scalable partnership opportunities.
• Represent Gather Guard at selected venue or event-industry conferences and networking opportunities when appropriate.

• Partner with Marketing to support organic search, paid search, landing-page, content, and conversion-improvement initiatives.
• Highly efficient with AI usage to adapt strategy and build efficiencies
• Monitor acquisition metrics…