Account Executive, Commercial Lines

Our Parent Company in Kansas City is growing and looking to add experienced professionals to our Commercial Lines team! This is an opportunity to step into a client-facing, strategic role where you’ll have ownership, influence, and the ability to make a meaningful impact on both clients and their employees. These roles are ideal for individuals with a strong background in servicing and managing client relationships who enjoy collaborating with internal teams to deliver exceptional service, support compliance, and drive new business opportunities.

The Account Executive is responsible for a more complex book of business, based on industry specialty, account revenue size and/or coverage complexity, such as loss sensitive programs, large deductibles, captives or shared and layered programs. Responsible for placement strategy they will be implementing the "Fewer & Stronger" market consolidation initiative as they make decisions on behalf of the client for which markets to approach and place coverage. The ability to negotiate the best terms and conditions for the client is imperative.

The AE must be active in client specific direction to the assigned team to ensure we meet the needed outcome for the client, for RSC E&O mitigation and sustainability of the service model.

Your Impact:

• Responsible for overall Service, Placement and Business Development management on an assigned book of business
• Accountable for business development and retention for any assigned book of house accounts
• Responsible for renewal strategy including markets to approach, claims reviews, gap analysis, coverage specifications as well as facilitating and analyzing the exposure information
• Marketing, negotiation, writing exec summary and reviewing of proposal, facilitating for binding new business and renewal coverage following the direction of the client
• Debrief of proposal presentation sent to the client
• Create binding instruction recap to team
• Drafting stewardship reports in a timely fashion as agreed upon by the client
• Provide oversight and direction for Loss control services and claims management
• Review of client contracts as necessary

• Review and communicate with carrier on any Material change to the coverage program
• Understanding and communication of the client’s service expectations
• Escalation point person for the client or any RSC teams in the event of issues

Successful Candidates Will Have:

• 7+ Years of experience in a Property & Casualty brokerage environment
• Deep technical knowledge of Property & Casualty business
• Deep technical knowledge of loss sensitive, alternative risk transfer, & self-insured retentions programs
• Hold Insurance licenses as required by the Company

Risk Strategies is the 9th largest privately held U.S. brokerage firm offering comprehensive risk management advice, insurance and reinsurance placement for property & casualty, employee benefits, private client services, as well as consulting services and financial & wealth solutions. With more than 30 specialty practices, Risk Strategies serves commercial companies, nonprofits, public entities, and individuals, and has access to all major insurance markets. Risk Strategies is an Accession Risk Management Group company, with over 200 offices and nearly 6,000 employees across the U.S. and Canada.

Our industry recognition includes being named a Great Place to Work, Best Places to Work in Insurance, and on the Inc. 5000 list as one of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies. We are committed to being good stewards for our company, culture, and communities.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

•             While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to regularly sit, hear, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

•             The work environment characteristics described are representative of those employees performing the essential functions of this job. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud. Occasional Travel.

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