Account Executive Downers Grove

Hub International Midwest Limited

Account Executive

Full Time • Downers Grove
SUMMARY  
 
The Account Executive (AE) will provide professional, courteous account management and brokerage services to assigned clients, having the primary responsibility for account retention.   Working alongside cognizant Producers (aka “Client Executives / Sales”) as assigned, the AE shall be principally responsible for overseeing management of assigned accounts, including redundant interface with appropriate decision makers, proactive consultation, insurance program design, carrier interface/marketing, coordination of risk control resources, relevant collaboration with colleagues throughout HUB, and negotiation of coverage terms and conditions.  
 
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES 
 
  • Working alongside and cooperatively with Producers, if assigned on accounts, serve as the HUB’s primary consultant to the client.  The Producer has primary responsibility for client relationship management and initiating new sales.  The AE has primary responsibility for retaining the account, acting as the de facto technical expert and broker-consultant.  (In some instances no Producer will be assigned and the AE also is primarily responsible for client relationship management.) 
  • Ensure Producers, when assigned, are fully informed about and prepared for all client meetings and interfaces so as to be able to competently and proactively manage the client relationship.   
  • Establish and maintain strong and productive professional relationships with “C-Level” and other cognizant decision makers for assigned HUB clients.  
  • Possess a detailed knowledge of the client’s business and industry, being able to articulate applicable exposures to loss, insurance coverages, and appropriate/available risk management/control solutions. 
  • Establish and maintain strong and productive professional relationships with cognizant insurance carrier marketing, underwriting, and risk control staff, including a detailed familiarity with each carrier’s products and services in support of assigned clients. 
  • Directly oversee and coordinate the delivery of all HUB services to assigned clients throughout the policy cycle, including stewardship reports, delivery of risk control services, carrier meetings, claims reviews, preparation of coverage outlines, and marketing of emergent and renewal coverage requests. 
  • Work cooperatively and professionally with cognizant CSS colleagues to deliver HUB services as described above, using the interface as an opportunity to teach, train, and mentor CSS team members.  Provide input and feedback to the Client Services Manager (CSM) as to the performance of CSS staff on assigned accounts. 
  • Ensure that all client service needs are promptly and professionally delivered, either directly by the AE or via HUB colleagues (e.g. CSS, CPU, Risk Control, etc.).  The AE is accountable for the competence, timeliness, and quality of all deliverables to the client. 
  • Conduct annual review w/clients making coverage and loss control recommendations focused on reducing the clients total cost of risk.  
  • Manage HUB Top 200 process. 
Compensation: $110,000.00 per year




This agency is independently owned and operated. Your application will go directly to the agency, and all hiring decisions will be made by the management of this agency. All inquiries about employment at this agency should be made directly to the location, and not to Big I of Illinois Association.

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