National Healthcare Practice Director

National Healthcare Practice Director

The National Healthcare Practice Leader is responsible for advancing IMA's national presence, growth, and expertise across the healthcare industry. This leader brings deep technical knowledge of healthcare risk, sophisticated carrier relationships, and a strategic mindset oriented around complex healthcare delivery models and regulatory environments. They serve as a highly visible resource across geographies.

Essential Responsibilities:

Growth, Production & Market Impact

• Drive national new business growth within hospitals, physician groups, senior living, behavioral health, healthcare staffing, managed care organizations, and other care-delivery sectors.
• Actively support producers on complex healthcare opportunities, including underwriting strategy, program structure, clinical risk insights, and differentiating IMA in competitive RFP environments.
• Provide direct involvement on high-value pursuits, including large health systems, multi-state operators, and organizations with sophisticated risk financing needs.
• Participate in internal business reviews, prospect meetings, and client presentations, representing IMA's national healthcare expertise.
• Bring forward timely insights on healthcare industry trendssuch as consolidation, regulatory changes, professional liability climate, staffing challenges, and reimbursement pressuresand apply them to client strategy.

Healthcare Specialty Strategy & National Alignment

• Develop and execute the national strategic plan for the Healthcare & Social Services Practice, ensuring alignment with IMA's enterprise goals.
• Align service standards, technical expectations, and client delivery models across all IMA markets to ensure consistency for healthcare clients nationwide.
• Identify emerging risks (e.g., cyber, EPL, medical professional liability, managed-care E&O, regulatory fines/penalties) and build practice capabilities to address them.
• Represent IMA in healthcare associations, national groups, and specialty forums involving hospital leadership, senior living executives, physician enterprise leaders, and nonprofit providers.

Carrier and Market Relationships

• Build and maintain deep relationships with healthcare-specialized carriersparticularly medical professional liability carriers, alternative risk partners, programs/MGUs, and managed-care insurers.
• Lead national carrier strategy for healthcare placements, program design, alternative risk financing, and market-facing positioning.
• Collaborate with key carrier partners to develop innovative solutions in response to industry shifts such as staffing shortages, litigation trends, senior living acuity levels, or physician practice consolidation.
• Facilitate carrier engagement to bring new programs, benchmarking data, and thought leadership to IMA's clients and internal teams.

Talent Development & Team Leadership

• Mentor and develop healthcare-specialized talent across production, account management, analytics, and claimsensuring deep vertical expertise throughout the practice.
• Oversee healthcare-specific training programs, including MPL fundamentals, loss-sensitive program structures, captive and RRG strategies, regulatory compliance exposures, and post-acute risk trends.
• Partner with Market Presidents on specialty-focused hiring, promotions, and team alignment.
• Build a sustainable national bench of healthcare experts and maintain a succession plan for healthcare leadership roles.

Collaboration & Internal Integration

• Coordinate closely with Market Presidents, Commercial Lines Leaders, producers, claims teams, and analytics resources to ensure seamless delivery for healthcare clients
• Lead national healthcare practice calls and cross-market collaboration, uniting healthcare experts across IMA's footprint.
• Promote knowledge sharing, including emerging case law, medical professional trends, carrier appetite changes, and risk-management best practices.
• Partner with Marketing to elevate IMA's brand in the healthcare space through conferences, association involvement, and thought leadership.
• Identify and support M&A opportunities that expand IMA's healthcare capabilities or geographic reach.

Required Experience & Skills

• Extensive healthcare-related brokerage, underwriting, or risk-management experience, with deep technical mastery of healthcare exposures.
• Strong knowledge across key healthcare verticals such as hospitals, senior living, behavioral health, physician groups, ambulatory surgery centers, managed care organizations, and social services.
• Demonstrated excellence in developing and maintaining senior-level relationships with healthcare executives, carrier leaders, and strategic partners.
• Proven ability to lead national pursuits, design complex insurance programs, and support sales initiatives.
• Experience managing or advising on large healthcare books of business, including loss-sensitive and alternative risk structures.

Compensation & Benefits

Being a part of IMA has its benefits. When you become part of the IMA family, you become eligible to take part in our valuable benefits and rewards package designed to benefit you, your family, and your life. Our plans are cost-effective, convenient and provide progressive ways for staying healthy, protecting loved ones, pursuing financial security and living a full and balanced life. This role is eligible for the following: Annual Performance Bonus, Stock Purchase, Medical Plans, Prescription Drugs, Dental, Vision, Family Assistance Program, FSA, HSA, Pre-Tax Parking Plan, 401(k), Life/AD&D, Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Long Term Care, Short-term Disability, Long-term Disability, Business Travel Accident, Identity Theft, Paid Time Off, Flexible Work Options, Paid Holidays, Sabbatical, Gift Matching, Well-Being Stipend, Personal and Professional Development. In addition to our robust benefits package, the final offer amounts will depend on a variety of factors, including the candidate's geographic location, prior relevant experience, and their knowledge, skills, and abilities.

*These benefits do not apply to internship roles.

Why Join IMA?

We've built a reputation for putting our associates first

What if we told you that you could be an integral part of an entrepreneurial, expanding company, develop lasting relationships, earn competitive benefits, plus claim part ownership? It's this unique ownership business model that makes working at IMA so appealing.

We work in teams. We sell in teams. We win and prosper as a team

We provide support systems and resources that enable each of our associates to focus on what they do best. And as an independent company based in the Midwest, we're big enough to write business all over the world and small enough to implement your ideas quickly.

We are recognized nationally as a leader in our industry

• 2020-2023 Business Insurance Magazine Best Places to Work in Insurance
• 2023 Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces
• 2023 Denver Business Journal's Best Places to Work
• 2022-2023 Connecticut Top Work Places
• 2021-2023 Inc. 5000's List of Fastest Growing Companies
• 2019-2022 Civic 50 Colorado Honoree Recognizing 50 Most Community-Minded Companies
• 2022-2023 Kansas City Business Journal's Best Places to Work
• 2021-2023 Charlotte Business Journal's Best Places to Work
• 2021-2023 Los Angeles Business Journal's Best Places to Work
• 2021-2023 The Salt Lake City Tribune Top Work Places
• 2021-2022 Puget Sound Business Journal's Washington's Best Workplaces
• 2021-2022 Wichita Business Journal's Best Places to Work, #1 in extra-large category
• 2021 Dallas Business Journal's Best Places to Work
• 2021 Alaska Journal of Commerce's Best Workplaces in Alaska

This Job Description is not a complete statement of all duties and responsibilities comprising this position.

The IMA Financial Group, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, The IMA Financial Group, Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.