Commercial Insurance Account Manager

Commercial Insurance Account Manager

Higginbotham, a privately held, independent insurance and financial services firm that ranks within the top 20 nationwide, has an immediate opening for a Commercial Insurance Account Manager for our Webster, TX office.

Position Summary : The Commercial Lines Account Manager provides prompt, accurate and courteous service to our clients, producers and company personnel, while offering a high level of support in obtaining, maintaining, expanding and servicing our commercial accounts. Essential Tasks :

• Collectively plans, designs and implements appropriate insurance programs for clients that coincide with agency guidelines
• Maintains knowledge of new developments or changes with various carriers and new Federal / State laws that may affect how our clients conduct business; consults, informs and educates clients about coverage, exclusions and exposures : documents electronic filing accordingly
• Generating premium allocations for clients; advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency
• Negotiating rate terms and conditions with Carriers on behalf of clients
• Provides technical support to Producers (coverage-wise, with proposal, suspense items, etc.)
• Prepares necessary proposals, summaries of insurance and applications, submits them to appropriate insureds and carriers, obtains clients' signatures on all applications, follows up to ensure timely responses, all in conjunction with Producer
• Remarkets, contacts clients and follows up in conjunction with producers, renews policies by agency standards
• Consults, informs and educates audit procedures to clients in conjunction with producer
• Set priorities and manages workflow to ensure efficient, timely and accurate processing of transactions and other responsibilities

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Notice to Recruiters and Staffing Agencies : To protect the interests of all parties, Higginbotham Insurance Agency, Inc., and our partners, will not accept unsolicited potential placements from any source other than directly from the candidate or a vendor partner under MSA with Higginbotham. Please do not contact or send unsolicited potential placements to our team members.

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