Insurance Sales Agent

Personal Lines Producer

The Personal Lines Producer at Howard Hanna Insurance Services is responsible for maintaining and maximizing profitable relationships with personal lines clients and for growing the book of business through new client sales.

Responsibilities:

• Identify, qualify, and develop personal insurance opportunities with new and existing clients in person, online, by phone, and through written communication.
• Foster and maintain excellent relationships with clients and prospects through regular follow-up, accurate and timely quotations, and general account support. Anticipate, respond to, and follow up on all existing client needs.
• Actively prospect, round accounts, and solicit increases in existing client coverage as well as network for new clients, including win backs.
• Obtain best coverage/rate for insured, process quotes, and bind insurance coverage; follow up as necessary with inspection, photos, and other documentation. Present policies to insured and educate them on coverages and rates.
• Support and prepare clients for renewal and retention, and maintain strong client relationships.
• Anticipate, respond to, and follow up on all existing client needs.
• Monitor, review, and report on key metrics to ensure sales targets are achieved, and execute sales activity documentation in a timely, accurate, and professional manner.
• Collaborate with team members, mentor staff, provide expertise and answer questions, and participate in formal and informal meetings as needed.
• Maintain CE and participate in ongoing education and keep informed regarding industry information, new product information, legislation, coverages and technology to continuously improve knowledge and performance.

Qualifications:

• Hold the insurance license required by your state and have a minimum of two years personal and commercial lines insurance account management experience, as well as a Bachelor's Degree or comparable work experience.
• Possess a valid driver's license and a source of reliable transportation.
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of insurance products and usages, rating procedures, underwriting procedures, coverages, and industry operations to effectively secure new business and maintain existing client base.
• Have a proven track record of business to business sales success. Possess strong presentation, persuasion, and negotiation skills with the ability to close sales.
• Be people-oriented, customer-focused, and professionally assertive in developing new client relationships and servicing existing clients.
• Possess outstanding organizational skills with an ability to complete difficult assignments without supervision, sound business judgment, strong decision-making and superior written and verbal communication skills.
• Have excellent time management skills, thrive in a team environment and Technology and Computer proficiency including agency management systems.

Benefits/Perks:

• Competitive Pay
• Professional Development
• Job Stability in a growing industry

Howard Hanna Insurance Services is ranked one of the top real estate insurance agencies in the nation. Part of the Allen Tate & Howard Hanna Family of Companies, we're designed to assist customers with every stage of their homeownership journey - from buying/selling, to mortgage, insurance, relocation, title and new construction services. Howard Hanna Insurance is a Trusted Choice® independent insurance agency, representing the nation's top carriers for all insurance products to provide for and protect our clients. Spanning the Carolinas and Virginia, our insurance professional sales and customer service agents work in teams to design the best plan and pricing for our client's needs and provide the most personal experience possible.

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 agency location and not to the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina.