Marketing Account Executive

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At Great American, we value and recognize the benefits derived when people with different backgrounds and experiences work together to achieve business results. Our goal is to create a workplace where all employees feel included, empowered, and enabled to perform at their best.

The Strategic Comp Division specializes in workers' compensation insurance and believes that workers' compensation is a controllable cost. Since its founding in 1992, the division has partnered with hundreds of customers to significantly reduce both losses and workers' compensation expenses. The success of Strategic Comp’s program stems from a distinctive blend of strategies: an aggregate deductible structure that limits risk while rewarding clients for strong performance, a focus on cultural loss control initiatives that drive safer workplace behaviors, and a low case-load, field-based claims adjusting model that ensures personalized and efficient claims management.

Strategic Comp looking to fill a remote Marketing Account Executive position to join their team in Southern, California. This role is 100% remote but will include travel up to 60% of the time in the southern California region. The candidate must reside in Southern California.

Responsibilities:

• Market products and services through the Independent Agency system in this specific geographic territory, with overall goals of achieving a high level of renewal retention, and an appropriate level of profitable growth of new business.
• This role will focus on communication and relationship management with the agent, our underwriting department, and our Account Executives who work with our insureds.
• The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate knowledge and the intricacies of Strategic Comp’s product via strong group presentation skills as well as effective one-on-one communication.
• This person in this position will gain an in-depth working knowledge of new business and renewal accounts, with all new business submissions coming directly to the Marketing Account Executive, who serves as the front-line underwriter.
• After gathering additional data, this role presents the account to our Underwriting Department, including with it a strategy for successfully getting the order. The compensation plan for this role includes an incentive bonus plan focused on production and retention of accounts.
• The person hired for this position will work from their home and will be required to travel up to 60% of the time including some overnight travel in the Southern, CA region.
• A company car is provided. In addition to a competitive total rewards program, we offer a production bonus for this position.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree is preferred and generally 10+ years of experience in production underwriting or marketing commercial insurance on large accounts, preferably in workers’ compensation.
• Additional experience in underwriting, loss control, or claims is a plus.
• Qualified candidates must have knowledge of the workings of the Independent Agent system and have strong knowledge of and relationships with the key agencies in the territory.
• Ability to travel up to 60% of the time by car or plane.