Marketing Manager - Houston, TX

Hi Everyone!  This is a terrific opportunity for someone with a strong marketing background.  Our client is a well respected agency in Houston that has several offices.  They are looking for someone that can step in as a marketing manager and fulfill two goals.  First - they need someone who can manage the carrier relationships to help facilitate growth.  Secondly, they need someone that can create a centralized department , facilitate on-line submissions and know how to market difficult risks.

Marketing Manager
Our client is a regional insurance agency with the capacity to provide insurance and risk management programs for complex, high risk insureds.  The goal of this position, Marketing Manager, is to centralize the agency's marketing functions for new and renewal business.  It’s important this role can balance traditional relationship building with the ways technology has changed marketing in recent years.

Marketing Manager Responsibilities:
Oversee the accurate compilation and timely release of prepared submissions to market.
Assist in the ongoing training of account managers and producers with respect to submissions, proposals and renewal marketing.
Seek out appropriate relationships within standard and E&S markets; work closely with wholesale brokers and insurance companies as the agency's primary point of contact for contract negotiations, premium commitments, etc.
Contribute to the overall business and sales strategies of the agency's Texas operations.

Marketing Manager Qualifications:
At least five (5) years of commercial underwriting and agency marketing experience with multi-line commercial coverage like general liability, commercial auto, large property and workers compensation.
Knowledge and design capabilities for unusual or high risks clients including large deductible, SIR and captive programs.
Ability to partner with sales executives, client service staff and marketing specialists to analyze risk, strategize renewals and help advise clients on appropriate insurance programs.
Must have extensive Texas carrier and wholesale brokerage relationships to provide an advantage when negotiating the best coverage and rates available.

Please contact Scott Thompson for immediate confidential consideration and additional details.  Email:  sthompson@insurance-csg.com  Phone:  515-987-0242  Fax 515-987-0004  See our website at, www.csgrecruiting.com/ins_opportunities.htm for a complete listing of nationwide opportunities.

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