What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Broker position at Higginbotham?
Position Summary: The Senior Broker manages complex insurance accounts and placements, leveraging 5 years of experience to build strong client and carrier relationships. This role drives profitable growth and offers independent, strategic work in a fast-paced environment with regular travel.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Demonstrated leadership skills with a proven ability to guide team members toward achieving both departmental and individual goals.
- Strong problem-solving abilities with the flexibility to adapt and pivot in a dynamic environment.
- A positive, encouraging mindset that fosters team motivation and engagement.
- Critical thinking skills to develop and implement practical, effective solutions to support team success.
- Creating, managing and maintaining a profitable portfolio of business through top level sales, relationship, and technical expertise.
- Creating and nourishing profound and steadfast relationships with clients and insurance companies to create business placement opportunities.
- Creatively and aggressively structure and negotiate specialty insurance placements
- Successfully negotiating the account placement of new and renewal business.
- Consistently accomplishing targeted revenue goals.
- Leveraging resources to fulfil account placement objectives.
- Inspiring and teaching team members through leadership principles, technical proficiencies, and deep insurance and product knowledge.
- Realizing and developing superior account placement strategies through the account qualification process.
- Fully assuming all the responsibility for placement of account opportunities and completion of all associated account requirements.
- Continual enhancement of industry knowledge.
- Ability to travel extensively.
- Leadership: Display leadership skills and ability to motivate fellow employees
- Ability to Analyze and Solve Problems: Skill in recognizing challenges, exploring options, and implementing effective solutions in a timely manner
- Attention to Detail: A strong focus on completing tasks and projects accurately and thoroughly
- Communication Skills: Capable of expressing ideas clearly in both verbal and written forms and engaging with various audiences
- Timely Task Completion: Ability to finish tasks and projects efficiently, managing resources and priorities effectively
- Team Collaboration: Willingness to work together with others, promoting teamwork and supporting shared goals
- Client Focus: Dedication to understanding and addressing the needs of clients and stakeholders to ensure their satisfaction
- Dependability: Acknowledgment of the importance of being present and punctual.
- Creative Thinking: Openness to suggesting new ideas and methods to improve processes and outcome
- Organizational Skills: Capability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Adaptability: Willingness to adjust to changing situations and priorities, showing resilience in a dynamic work environment
- 5 years of experience in commercial and wholesale insurance
- Highest level of customer relationship skills, sales management and negotiating talent to drive results
- Good history of working relationships with retail agents and markets
- Property & Casualty and other relevant state licenses, where applicable, are required
- Proficient with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Ability to lift 25 pounds
- Repeated use of sight to read documents and computer screens
- Repeated use of hearing and speech to communicate on telephone and in person
- Repetitive hand movements, such as keyboarding, writing, 10-key
- Walking, bending, sitting, reaching and stretching in all directions
- Higginbotham offers medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, 401K, equity prescription incentive plan as well as multiple supplemental benefits for physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
- Company paid holidays, plus PTO
- Employee Wellness Program
- Applications will be accepted until the position is filled