Birmingham Branch Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Birmingham Retail Branch is comprised of over $210M in gross written premium, encompassing business from across all the Chubb segments, including Commercial Insurance, Major Accounts, Personal Risk Services, Financial Lines and Small Business.

The total Commercial Segment is $162M in GWP and Personal Lines is $49M in GWP.

The Birmingham Branch Manager will focus on building out a strategy to aggressively grow Small Commercial/Lower Middle Market, Commercial Insurance, Major Accounts & Personal Lines, which presents opportunity.

The Birmingham Branch Manager reports to the Regional Executive Officer of the Southeast Region to successfully drive financial performance of the Birmingham Retail Branch which encompasses the states of Alabama and Mississippi.

The Branch Manager's responsibilities include leading and executing activities which achieve the Branch goals related to business development, distribution management, customer penetration and retention, regulatory compliance and staff development to positively impact profit, revenue growth, customer relations, and employee development for each of our segments, products and services, along with matrix management responsibilities for all local employees.

Additionally, the Branch Manager will collaborate with the REO, Regional and National Managers and other network and corporate resources to drive results, implement process improvements and to maximize efficiencies.

The Birmingham Branch Manager is specifically accountable for:


* Presenting a unified, cohesive, and consistent Chubb storefront and brand to the marketplace


* Providing direction and leadership in driving consistent profit and growth in the branch


* Establishing a vision for future growth for the territory, and working with the businesses to realize that vision


* Building and leading the execution of strategic and tactical plans that cultivate producer relationships and maximize the development of targeted business


* Serving as the senior Chubb executive in the local marketplace


* Collaborating with Segment and Product leaders to establish goals and development plans and evaluating performance of Branch Segment and Product Leaders


* Ensuring that effective producer planning, prospecting and account rounding strategies and processes are in place


* Bringing the diverse elements of the organization together to meet the needs of our customers


* Managing all underwriting and service personnel to accomplish internal and external objectives


* Providing leadership and direction for critical business functions including:


* Planning and budgeting, expense management, recruitment, retention and development of staff, performance management, and team building


* Demonstrated advanced competencies in results orientation, customer focus, teamwork & collaboration, leadership, communication, and coaching/developing others


* Extensive property and casualty insurance ...