Employee Benefits Producer

Position Summary:

A Producer is responsible for developing their territory by obtaining new clients and maintaining existing client relationships. This role develops and fosters business relationships; utilizes those relationships to create opportunities for OVD's advisory services; acts as a solutions provider for clients when things go wrong; and is accountable for the entire client relationship.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Obtains new clients by cold calls, drop-ins, emails, social network selling, and inbound lead development.
• Handles all business development activities including; networking, events, client relations and social engagements.
• Spends time out of the office developing relationships with COI’s.
• Focuses on client education, renewals, carrier negotiations, client strategy development, and insurance policy analysis.
• Stays on top of continuing education and maintaining expertise on industry subject matter.
• Builds strong relationships with our carrier partners in order to best position the company for client negotiations when needed.
• Collaborates with other departments when issues arise for quick resolution.
• Conducts internal strategy meetings on client accounts with account management team.
• Proactively communicates with clients; email responses, account coordination, service monitoring, etc.
• Develops strategies with sales team to increase revenue generation.
• Any other duties and tasks that are required by the Company.
• Limited Direction: Works from overall policies, goals, and budgetary limits. Virtually self-supervising with direct accountability for final results.
• No supervision: No supervisory responsibilities.

Here’s what you’ll need:

• Associate’s degree or higher preferred.
• One (1) to two (2) years of experience in a sales or marketing role.
• Life and Health license required.
• Ability to work onsite in a full-time or hybrid capacity (management discretion).
• Excellent interpersonal skills. Warm, approachable, savvy, and empathetic. Creating trust is a key function of this role.
• Drive. Ownership. Accountability. Passion.
• Ability to conceptualize and think creatively. Open to exploring new ways of approaching work that can improve results, accuracy, and efficiency.
• Extremely strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to translate “technical speak” in a way that end users at all levels can understand.
• High energy work ethic with ability to work independently while maintaining excellent customer relationships.
• Ability to work collaboratively with others.

Core Competencies:

• Accuracy: Achievement of correct and precise work.
• Accountability: Acceptance of responsibility and one's own actions.
• Written Communication: Ability to write letters, reports, articles , and e-mails using clear and concise vocabulary, style, grammar, and punctuation.
• Customer Orientation: A desire to serve clients by focusing efforts on listening and responding effectively to customer questions, resolving customer problems to their satisfaction, and evaluating customer satisfaction.
• Problem Solving: Ability to recognize courses of action which can be taken to handle problems or potential problems, and applying contingency plans to solve those problems.

Work Environment & Physical Requirements:

The work environment and physical demands described here are representative of those that may be encountered and must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Low to Moderate noise (i.e. business office with computers, phone, and printers)
• Ability to work in a confined area.
• Ability to sit at a desk for an extended period.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, reach, stoop, kneel, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone and keyboard.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work and the ability to read and understand written word.
• Light to moderate lifting may be required.

OVD Insurance is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veteran, that celebrates diversity and believes employing a diverse workforce is key to our success. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.

To Executive Search Firms & Staffing Agencies: OVD Insurance does not accept unsolicited resumes from any agencies that have not signed a mutual service agreement. All unsolicited resumes will be considered OVD Insurance property, and OVD Insurance will not be obligated to pay a referral fee. This includes resumes submitted directly to Hiring Managers without contacting OVD Insurance Human Resources Talent Department.

We are not able to sponsor work visas for this position.

This job description does not list all duties of the job. Employees may be asked by management to perform other duties as needed. The Company reserves the right to revise this job description at any time. This job description is not a contract for employment and does not infringe upon the Company’s at-will employment status.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Supplemental Pay:

• Commission pay

Ability to Commute:

• Wexford, PA 15090 (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Wexford, PA 15090