Director, Religious Organizations (The Mutual Group) - Remote Opportunity

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.