Regional Sales Director, Supplemental Health - Cigna Healthcare - Remote

Please note: While the job is based remote/work at home, 70% or greater travel is required throughout assigned territory and to Walnut Creek, CA office as needed.

In-office presence for meetings and business gatherings is strongly encouraged.

Territory includes our Northern California market.

Role Summary:

The Regional Sales Director (RSD) role is a field-based Supplemental Health sales role that partners with the Cigna field sales and account management teams in driving product growth.

This role is aligned by geography and drives all supplemental health opportunities for a designated Cigna sales office(s).

Key areas of expertise include:


* Product solutions: Accidental Injury (AI)/Critical Illness (CI)/Hospital Indemnity (HI) and corresponding pricing/UW strategies


* Enrollment solutions: Internal capabilities and external options


* Administrative solutions: Billing and claim processes

The RSD role is responsible for proactive and consultative outreach into the local markets to increase the institutional knowledge of Cigna's Supplemental Health solutions.

The RSD is also responsible for relationship management with other external supplemental health sales experts, brokers, and consultants.

More specifically, the RSD role will:


* Drive Market Level Distribution Strategy.

The RSD will partner with market leadership to develop and execute a strategy to grow Accidental Injury (AI), Critical Illness (CI), and Hospital Indemnity (HI) product sales within their geography.

The strategy will focus on clients over 250 lives and take into consideration broker relationships, growth strategies (for new and existing business), competitive intel, local trends, and core product strategies.

Product specific sales reports, forecasts, and updates may be a part of this strategy.

Attending finalist meetings, negotiating with underwriting, conducting seminars, etc.

may also be a part of any particular market level strategy.


* Collaboration with matrix partners.

The RSD will be a resource liaison for operations.

They will participate in internal calls so operations can better understand sales' needs.

Each RSD will share specific market feedback so underwriting, pricing, and enrollment can better understand market conditions.

This partnership will help facilitate a best practices approach where sales and each matrix partner better understand each other.


* Goal Attainment: The RSD will be held accountable for their assigned supplemental health sales goal.

Supplemental Health goals may include new business sales, existing business sales, and persistency bonuses.

Incentive Compensation

The RSD role is eligible for incentive compensation.

Specific details will be addressed in an annual compensation plan.

Components may differ year to year to include any or all of the following:


* Achievement of sales and retention goals


* Meeting internal expectations


* Effective territory management


* Executing market level strate...