What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Development Associate position at Superior Insurance Partners?
We are seeking a Business Development Associate who will play a critical role in generating leads and building a pipeline of potential partnership opportunities. The candidate will join a highly collaborative and motivated team in a high growth environment with substantial opportunity to create value for all involved. Qualified candidates should demonstrate a strong desire and passion for sales and business development, and a great goal-oriented attitude.
Company Overview
Superior Insurance Partners is a rapidly growing insurance brokerage platform, focused primarily on commercial lines, personal lines, and employee benefit solutions to companies and individuals. Superior acquires and partners with leading independent insurance brokers primarily in the Midwest and Eastern US. The Company’s mission is to improve the lives of its agency partners. Superior does this by creating a highly tailored plan for each of its agency partners to help them achieve their goals, and providing customized resources including accounting/finance, recruiting/HR, AMS/IT, marketing, and M&A support. Agency partners are aligned through long-term economic incentives while leveraging the benefits of best practices, scale, and resources across Superior’s shared platform.
Tyree & D'Angelo Partners ("TDP") is a private equity investment firm that focuses on control investments in the lower middle market (companies with $1-5M of EBITDA). We look for investments where we can establish true collaborative partnerships with business owners and management teams that will lead to substantial value creation over a long-term investment horizon. TDP’s track record of building high-growth and lower risk companies is driven by a buy & build investment strategy, that is based on tested methods of value creation and a true partnership approach with executives and business owners. TDP works in collaboration with executive leaders utilizing an investment thesis driven process designed to build companies with a differentiated customer value proposition. TDP invests in the healthcare, consumer, and business services sectors, focusing on high-quality founder owned businesses that we can grow with our high probability of success process. TDP companies have completed over 1,000 partnerships, have grown to over $4 billion of enterprise value, and TDP has over $1.4 billion of capital under management. For more information, please visit www.TDPfund.com
Primary Job Responsibilities:
· Generate leads for the company through cold calling efforts
· Outbound prospect qualification and account research
· Manage and maintain prospect database ensuring accuracy and integrity
· Build deep pipeline of future acquisition opportunities
· Work closely with business development team to generate and qualify new leads as well as closing transactions
· Assist in marketing campaigns for Superior Insurance Services
· Manage outbound mailing program and track response rates
· Assist in additional administrative tasks as needed
· Be a team player in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment
Required Criteria:
- Experience cold and warm calling small business owners
- Experience in an inside sales role, or strong desire to move into sales
- Prior experience within an insurance organization is a plus
- Ability to communicate, both written and orally, with a leadership approach
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- Results-oriented, strategic thinker and planner
- Comfortable in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced, and growth-oriented environment
- Local to the Greater Chicago, IL area
Preferred Criteria:
· Insurance Services industry, or multi-site company experience
Job Type: Full-time
