• Leads with influence and expertise. Actively contributes to division or department leadership team. Communicates and supports organization mission, vision, values, policies, and practices.
• Designs a holistic strategy and approach to the growth of the binding authority department.
• Collaborates with key internal and external stakeholders on the development, implementation and operational support of strategies spanning multiple functions.
• Identifies strategies used by other companies to understand and drive performance. Determines how best to use or adapt these strategies.
• Manages business relationships with business partner leaders to manage the coordinated initiation, evaluation, prioritization, authorization, implementation, and operational functionality of programs.
• Leads in the planning and development of various analyses which are used by department leadership to evaluate decision options. Alerts management to risks, issues and opportunities and recommends initiatives to address gaps or opportunities.
• Introduces new projects, manages project status updates and department position on strategy changes.
• Leads expert interpretation of risk management and related reports, sales forecast reports, related financial reports, retention reports and expansion state metrics for impacts to customer or agent operations.
• Manages results and reviews initiatives to affect desired short and long-term strategies.
• If applicable, reviews underwriting analysis and performance scorecards to identify trends and performance areas of concern.

Specialized Knowledge & Skills Requirements
• Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support, or service.
• Demonstrated experience counseling, consulting and negotiating to guide strategic business decisions across all levels of management.
• Solid knowledge, demonstrated experience and understanding of E&S insurance products, underwriting, and sales principles.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of profit, growth and retention measures.
• Demonstrated effective leadership experience, including people management.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of binding authority operations.

Licenses
• Must be licensed or obtain a license within 90 days of hire date.

Travel Requirements
• Up to 25%.

Physical Requirements
• Work that primarily involves sitting/standing.

Working Conditions
• Not applicable.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements listed above. Skills can be used in many different ways, and your life and professional experience may be relevant beyond what a list of requirements will capture. We encourage those who are passionate about what we do to apply!

We provide benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. You will have access to comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits that enable you to take care of your health. We also offer a competitive 401(k) contribution, a pension plan, an annual incentive, 9 paid holidays and a paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees). In addition, our student loan repayment program and paid-family leave are available to support our employees and their families. Interns and contingent workers are not eligible for American Family Insurance Group benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws pertaining to non-discrimination, non-harassment and equal opportunity. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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