National Sales Director of Emerging Markets

The work we do has an impact on millions of lives, and you can be a part of it.

We help protect our customers against life’s uncertainties. Regardless of where you work within the company, you’ll be helping provide protection and peace of mind when our customers need it most.

As Paid Family Medical Leave (PFML) and state mandated disability plans expand to new markets and states, as a leader in this space, Protective’s Employee Benefits Division (EBD) via ShelterPoint is expanding our team to drive growth and protect more members.  This is a newly created role is part of that expansion and will report directly to the SVP & Chief Distribution Officer, EBD.

As a key senior leader within our distribution team, as Head of Emerging Market (EM) Sales you will be responsible for developing strong relationships within Protective, with your Emerging Market sales team with footprints in MD, DE, CT, MA, ME, MN, CO, and OR, brokers, GAs, other trading partners, and customers to drive market leading growth in our EM segment. Working across size segments and geographies, you will leverage your expertise to successfully execute our EM strategy.  Additionally, as a key member of the leadership team  you will work on cross-functional projects and initiatives to enhance our business. 

Duties/Responsibilities:

•            Lead, coach, and develop talent of current sales team as well as recruit new talent.

•            Develop and nurture relationships with key brokers, GAs, and other trading partners that grow and protect EM revenue with these partners viewing ShelterPoint as their go to carrier for state mandated disability and PFML insurance products.

•            Ability to hit and surpass financial and other key performance goals and objectives across the EM organization, then coordinating and reporting on performance against these goals and objectives

•            Ensuring rigorous pipeline management of new and existing opportunities to drive growth and retain customers. 

•            Strong acumen towards data and analytics to make fact-based decisions regarding territory management and pipeline forecasting. 

•            Proclivity towards and experience with leveraging technology based solutions that optimize sales performance and accelerate sales.

•            Be a key partner with Marketing and Product to ensure successful Go-To-Market execution in new markets.

•            Provide strategic direction to executive leadership regarding products and services, as well as industry trends.

•            Responsible for feedback on organizational structure to help optimize performance, reinforce culture, and talent management, for both current team members and to attract new employees

•            Working closely with Underwriting, Marketing, Product, Actuarial, and all other departments to assure optimal financial and operational performance is achieved

•            Facilitating high quality enterprise decision making by prioritizing relevant issues, gathering required information (competitive, operational and other), and proposing solutions.

•            Build and execute yearly business plans for EM segment and hold team members accountable for their own plans.

•            Champion continuous improvement to increase customer satisfaction for our products and services.

•            Be an expert with respect to the competition

•            Regularly interacts with the Chief Distribution Officer, EBD to ensure all financial metrics are met and high level of customer satisfaction. 

•            Meet all objectives and goals set forth by executive leadership

•            Assist with additional duties/projects as assigned by management.

Required Skills/Abilities:

•            Strong organizational, teamwork and management skills

•            Ability to lead people and cultivate talent.

•            Emphasis on data and analytics to build business cases.

•            Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.

•            Experience performing in a highly regulated, fast-paced environment.

•            Strong intellectual and analytical skills combined with pragmatic problem-solving know how

•            Ability to multi-task, meet deadlines and reporting requirements established internally

•            and externally.

•            Demonstrated success defining and launching successful programs

•            Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

•            Strong proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint and Word

Education and Experience:

•            Bachelor’s degree

•            At least 10 years of relevant insurance experience and 3 years of people management 

Employee Benefits:  

We aim to protect our employees' wellbeing through a broad benefits offering. For example, we protect physical wellbeing through health, dental and vision insurance. We protect mental wellbeing through mental health benefits and an employee assistance program. We protect time away from work with a variety of paid time away benefits (e.g., paid time off, paid parental leave, short-term disability, and a cultural observance day). We protect financial wellbeing through contributions to healthcare accounts, a pension plan, and a 401(k) plan with Company matching. All employees are encouraged to protect their overall wellbeing by engaging in ProHealth Rewards, Protective’s platform to improve wellbeing while earning cash rewards.  

Eligibility for certain benefits may vary by position in accordance with the terms of the Company’s benefit plans.

Diversity and Inclusion:

At Protective, we are committed to providing an inclusive culture where all employees are able to fully contribute and thrive. Our goal is to grow and develop our people, attract diverse talent and support strong, diverse communities.

We support diversity, equity, and inclusion by working to develop a culture of inclusion and belonging led by leaders who develop potential and embrace all skills and abilities. Our aim is to create an equitable environment for all leaders and employees that will drive performance and impact business strategy. In this way, we can increase overall diversity for leadership roles and pipelines of talent by maturing our hiring practices, robust development opportunities and focus on retention of key talent.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to being inclusive and attracting, retaining, and growing the talents of a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Accommodations for Applicants with a Disability:

If you require an accommodation to complete the application and recruitment process due to a disability, please email martina.winston@protective.com.This information will be held in confidence and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the application and recruitment process.

Please note that the above email is solely for individuals with disabilities requesting an accommodation.  General employment questions should not be sent through this process.

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