Vice President, Branch Manager - Texas

Title:

Vice President, Branch Manager - Texas

Company:

Everest Insurance Company

Job Category:

Sales

Job Description:

It’s an exciting time for Everest Re Group, Ltd. (“Everest”)! As we continue on our journey, we see significant opportunity ahead of us to expand our reach, build diversity, and enhance our capabilities in critical markets.

Everest is a leading global reinsurance and insurance provider, operating for nearly 50 years through subsidiaries in the Bermuda, Canada, Europe, Singapore, US, and other territories. Our strengths include extensive product and distribution capabilities, a strong balance sheet, and an innovative culture. Throughout our history, Everest has maintained its discipline and focuses on creating long-term value through underwriting excellence and strong risk and capital management. But the most critical asset in this organization is our people. 

At Everest, we are committed to the development of our people. We offer dynamic training & professional development to our employees. You will benefit from career development and learning opportunities that will let you set career goals and fulfill them, including:

•          Generous tuition/continuing education reimbursement

•          Mentoring opportunities

•          Flexible work arrangements

•          Talent development initiatives

•          Networking groups

Everest is a growth company with $10.5 Billion of Gross Written Premium offering Property, Casualty and specialty products among others, through its various operating subsidiaries located in key markets around the world. Everest has been a global leader in reinsurance with a broad footprint, deep client relationships, underwriting excellence, responsive service and customized solutions. Our insurance arm draws upon impressive global resources and financial strength to tailor each policy to meet the individual needs of our customers.

Our financial strength is evident in Financial Agency Ratings of: A+ A. M. Best, A+ S&P Global and A1 Moody’s Investor Service. We are a market leader for our broad diversified income streams, strong underlying underwriting performance with reduced volatility and strong cash flow. We take pride in being known in the industry as nimble, entrepreneurial and responsive.

Everest Insurance, a member of the Everest Re Group, Ltd., has an opportunity available for a Branch Manager to cover Texas based out of our Houston, TX office.

The mission of the team is to enable the underwriting teams to be more effective, more efficient, and more connected with our trading partners and to deliver the quotable opportunities that we want to write while utilizing our relationships and influence to help bind the business we quote. Our goal is to build a world class distribution platform that will serve to strengthen the brand and support profitable topline growth.

Responsibilities will include:

• Representing all of the Everest products and services within an assigned region/geography

• With a focus on external client and broker engagement, working with the Everest senior leadership and underwriting teams to help build upon our distribution platform in the assigned region

• External marketing to continue to get the Everest message out to our trading partners

• Identifying new business opportunities within the region, generating new business leads, and develop existing client relationships through cross-selling additional lines of business

• Developing, leading and executing on the regional strategy in collaboration with the Regional Executive.

• Establishing strong relationships with client representatives and senior management teams of brokers (retail and wholesale) within the assigned region, ensuring Everest capabilities and product set is well known and understood

• Representing Everest at regional insurance industry and broker events

• Talent Recruitment, development of underwriters and strong leadership skills.

Work Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree

• 12+ years of relevant experience in the insurance industry

• Proven track record of success in previous sales, new business, and/or client management roles

• Broad industry network with key stakeholders in the retail broker, wholesale broker, and risk manager space

• Driven, highly motivated, self-starter

• Strong communication and presentation skills

• Excellent marketing and sales skills