Business Development Associate - Superior Insurance Partners LLC
Chicago, IL
About the Job
Superior Insurance Partners is a rapidly growing insurance brokerage platform, focused primarily on providing commercial lines, personal lines, and employee benefit solutions to companies and individuals. Superior acquires and partners with leading independent insurance agencies primarily in the Midwest and Eastern US. The company's mission is to improve the lives of its agency partners. Superior does this by creating a highly tailored plan for each of its agency partners to help them achieve their goals, and providing customized resources including accounting/finance, recruiting, HR, AMS/IT, marketing, and M&A support. Agency partners are aligned through long-term economic incentives while leveraging the benefits of best practices, scale, and resources across Superior's shared platform.
Superior is backed by Tyree & D'Angelo Partners ("TDP"), a leading Chicago-based private equity firm that makes control ownership investments in, and partners with, lower middle market businesses with the goal of creating meaningful value for all involved. TDP is currently investing out of its third fund and has managed and created over $3 billion of capital and company enterprise value. TDP has significant experience investing in service businesses and has completed over 1000 investment partnerships in its history.
We are seeking a Business Development Associate for our Insurance Services company, Superior Insurance Partners, who will play a critical role in generating leads and building a pipeline of potential partnership opportunities. The candidate will join a highly collaborative and motivated team in a high growth environment with substantial opportunity to create value for all involved. Qualified candidates should demonstrate a strong desire and passion for sales and business development, and a great goal-oriented attitude.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
· Generate leads for the company through cold calling efforts
· Outbound prospect qualification and account research
· Manage and maintain prospect database ensuring accuracy and integrity
· Build deep pipeline of future acquisition opportunities
· Work closely with business development team to generate and qualify new leads as well as closing transactions
· Assist in marketing campaigns for Superior Insurance Services
· Manage outbound mailing program and track response rates
· Assist in additional administrative tasks as needed
· Be a team player in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment
Required Criteria:
- Bachelor Degree in business or related field
- Experience cold and warm calling small business owners
- Experience in an inside sales role, or strong desire to move into sales
- Prior experience within an insurance organization is a plus
- Ability to communicate, both written and orally, with a leadership approach
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- Results-oriented, strategic thinker and planner
- Comfortable in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced, and growth-oriented environment
- Local to the Greater Chicago, IL area
Preferred Criteria:
· Insurance Services industry, or multi-site company experience
Base Salary plus commission