Sales Development Manager

***Candidates must reside in east coast Florida for this position***

Position Summary:

The Sales Development Manager (SDM) will be responsible for continual contact with agencies in their region to provide assistance to the agents with the goal of superior customer service and increased sales.

Essential Functions:

The SDMs measure of success is broken into key annual objectives with specific metrics agreed upon with the Director of Sales:

- Production

The SDM will be measure against metrics areas of Quotes, Applications, Profitability and Retention

- Sales Card

This will measure the number of agents with the defined bands at the beginning and the end of the calendar year. The goal for the SDM is to move a % of agents into a higher premium ban while maintaining agents with existing premium.

- Sales Call Quality

Works with team to implement a consultative selling approach in which we obtain an in-depth understanding of how our agents do business and what needs are important to them.

- Functional and Administrative

Collecting Agency Profile Information goal is to have all profile fields completed for 90% of our full appointed agents

- Contact Management implement and track the number of face-to-face visits and phone contact with agencies. All contact information to be entered in Sugar database

- Competitive Intelligence Surface and comment any changes taken place in the marketplace by our competitors. Document information on weekly report that is submitted to Director

- Weekly Reporting Update and document a weekly activity report that will be discussed on weekly departmental conference call

- Territory reviews periodically meet with senior management to review regional goals per agent; strategies for contact management and competitive intelligence

- Utilizing ISA

Why Windward Risk Managers:

- Windward Risk Managers is proud to be recognized on Fortunes Best Medium Workplaces list, ranking #28 among the Top 100 companies

- 100% employer paid health insurance for employees

- Up to 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting

- Long-term and short-term disability insurance

- 3 weeks PTO to start + generous paid holidays

- Tuition reimbursement and continuing education support

- Collaborative and growth focused culture

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:

- Bachelors Degree or equivalent training and experience

- 3+ years sales experience

- Excellent verbal and written communication and analytical skills necessary

- Able to handle multiple tasks with varying deadlines

Preferred Qualifications:

- 1-3 years experience in P&C sales, preferably in Florida

Due to current business and operational considerations, we currently hire employees residing in the following states at this time: AL, AR, CA, CT, FL, GA, KY, MO, NC, NV, OH, SC, TN, TX, VA , and WI .

Work Authorization Requirement:

- This role requires permanent U.S. work authorization and does not offer employer sponsorship now or in the future.

​​​​ WRM is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, or veteran status. We take affirmative action to ensure that all employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities.

Notice to Third Party Agencies: WRM does not accept unsolicited resumes from third party recruiting firms. Absent a signed Service Agreement by WRMs Human Resources Department, WRM reserves the right to pursue and hire these candidates without financial obligation to recruiters or agencies.