Commercial Insurance Account Manager - Franchise Department

Commercial Insurance Account Manager - Franchise Department

The Commercial Lines Account Manager provides prompt, accurate and courteous service to our Franchise specific clients, producers and company personnel, while offering a high level of support in obtaining, maintaining, expanding and servicing our commercial accounts.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Essential Tasks:

• Collectively plans, designs and implements appropriate insurance programs for clients that coincide with agency guidelines
• Maintains knowledge of new developments or changes with various carriers and new Federal/State laws that may affect how our clients conduct business; consults, informs and educates clients about coverage, exclusions and exposures: documents electronic filing accordingly
• Generating premium allocations for clients; advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency
• Negotiating rate terms and conditions with Carriers on behalf of clients
• Provides technical support to Producers (coverage-wise, with proposal, suspense items, etc.)
• Prepares necessary proposals, summaries of insurance and applications, submits them to appropriate insureds and carriers, obtains clients' signatures on all applications, follows up to ensure timely responses, all in conjunction with Producer
• Remarkets, contacts clients and follows up in conjunction with producers, renews policies by agency standards
• Consults, informs and educates audit procedures to clients in conjunction with producer
• Set priorities and manages workflow to ensure efficient, timely and accurate processing of transactions and other responsibilities

Core Competencies:

• Ability to Analyze and Solve Problems
• Attention to Detail
• Communication Skills
• Timely Task Completion
• Team Collaboration
• Client Focus
• Dependability
• Creative Thinking
• Organizational Skills
• Adaptability

Experience and Education: 3-5 years of Commercial Property & Casualty Insurance experience required. This is a fast paced role with a high volume of clients. Individual must be detail oriented and proficient with technology.

Licensing and Credentials: Active General Lines or Property & Casualty License required

Systems: Proficient with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Applied Epic experience strongly preferred, but knowledge of similar Account Management System (AMS) is acceptable

Location: Memphis, TN. Onsite, Hybrid schedule or fully remote opportunities available for qualified candidates

Perks & Benefits: Generous employee benefits package which includes a robust wellness program. Employee Ownership Opportunities. Career progression opportunity – the potential for growth within the company

Physical Requirements: Ability to lift 25 pounds. Repeated use of sight to read documents and computer screens. Repeated use of hearing and speech to communicate on telephone and in person. Repetitive hand movements, such as keyboarding, writing, 10-key. Walking, bending, sitting, reaching and stretching in all directions

Notice to Recruiters and Staffing Agencies: To protect the interests of all parties, Higginbotham Insurance Agency, Inc., and our partners, will not accept unsolicited potential placements from any source other than directly from the candidate or a vendor partner under MSA with Higginbotham. Please do not contact our team members or send unsolicited potential placements.

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