Religious Activities and Education Director jobs in Evanston, IL

As the Director of Religious Organizations, you will develop and manage the execution of business plans through leadership of diverse underwriting team in a defined regional territory. You will provide foundational knowledge of the Religious Organizations niche, and field insight for establishing/maintaining relationships with key agency partners to achieve corporate goals and objectives. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.

Responsibilities:

• Proactively engaged in the development of territory/state business plans for the Religious Organizations niche within assigned geographic territory.
• Manages portfolio to ensure book of business is tracking with established goals and/or key performance metrics and initiate corrective action, as needed.
• Develops and maintains key agency relationships within territory to facilitate production of new business opportunities and strong retention of desirable in-force portfolio, including to help facilitate negotiating coverage, pricing and other issues that arise.
• Expertly handles escalated underwriting decisions from a portfolio team leader or underwriter.
• Collaborates with multiple internal functional units and a diverse and multi-faceted national distribution force.
• Oversees ongoing analysis of departmental workflows, considering and implementing improvements that will enhance service and reduce expenses.
• Leads a diverse team of portfolio management leaders and professional underwriters towards achieving individual, department, division, and enterprise goals.
• Recruits, hires, and trains new portfolio leaders and underwriters and provide continuous feedback to foster employee development to strengthen the team.
• Oversees the quality and quantity of work produced in responsible underwriting unit, including the setting of SMART goals.
• Monitors Service Level Agreements and takes corrective actions as needed.
• Coaches and develops staff by taking ownership, being accountable and setting an example for the department and team by:
• Communicating honestly and acting with integrity.
• Completing and submitting timely performance reviews.
• Promoting corporate rewards and recognition programs.
• Mentoring and developing The Mutual Group’s future leaders.
• Key stakeholder and collaborator in the development or modification of LOAs, products and underwriting guidelines with Product Management and Corporate Underwriting and pricing needs with Actuarial.
• Operationalize strategic initiatives within the Religious Organizations niche and audits to ensure moving in the direction towards desired outcome.
• Act as SME for the Religious Organizations niche to advise business segment leadership on profitability trends, growth opportunities, market conditions and competitor intelligence.
• Consults with distribution, claims, underwriting, compliance and legal departments to resolve complex issues.
• Develop and effectively manage assigned budget.
• Identify product management and insurance industry trends.
• Participate on a variety of committee and task force assignments as needed.
• Performs other related work as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, or related field or equivalent combination of training and/or experience.
• CPCU or similar insurance related designation preferred.
• Ten (10) years of underwriting experience within the P&C Commercial Lines industry. Product development and management experience desirable.
• Five (5) years of increasing supervisory responsibility.
• Demonstrated background in handling complex underwriting and implementation of underwriting standards for risk, selection and pricing.
• Advanced knowledge of underwriting and strong ability to develop underwriting standards for risk, selection and pricing.
• Familiar with a variety of moderate to complex commercial underwriting and management concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Ability to expertly troubleshoot and resolve customer concerns.
• Demonstrated ability to work, collaborate and communicate effectively on cross-functional, internal and external teams.
• Ability to develop and enhance business relationships with senior leadership and internal and external customers that lead to a profitable portfolio of business.
• Strong presentation skills; ability to tailor to variety of audiences.

Compensation:

• $127,800 - $213,000 commensurate with experience, plus bonus eligibility
• $140,700 - $234,500 commensurate with experience in CA, CT, MA, NJ, NY, and PA, plus bonus eligibility

• The successful candidate will initially be hired as an employee of GuideOne Insurance Company and automatically become an employee of TMG on the company's official transition date.

Benefits:

We are proud to offer a robust benefits suite that includes:

• Competitive base salary plus incentive plans for eligible team members
• 401(K) retirement plan that includes a company match of up to 6% of your eligible salary
• Free basic life and AD&D, long-term disability and short-term disability insurance
• Medical, dental and vision plans to meet your unique healthcare needs
• Wellness incentives
• Generous time off program that includes personal, holiday and volunteer paid time off
• Flexible work schedules and hybrid/remote options for eligible positions
• Educational assistance