Digital Account Specialist

The Digital Account Specialist is an individual who operates with urgency to support incoming digital team business development efforts. This position will support and respond to incoming acquisition efforts and tradeshow support needs. Focusing on both agency and retail-based relationships, the Digital Account Specialist will support all agency profiling and onboarding efforts. 

As a Digital Account Specialist at Pie, you will take full ownership of managing and growing a significant partner portfolio (850:1). Your role involves driving proactive business development, autonomously addressing client needs, and meeting performance quotas. You will represent Pie with professionalism and make strategic decisions to enhance client relationships and achieve organizational goals.

How You’ll Do It

Maintain service communication and drive outcomes with existing partners:

• Build and engage with outside agency partnerships to increase engagement in the form of submissions, binds, and bound premium
• Work with partner CSRs, producers, and principals to influence production
• Represent Pie in meetings with partners, seminars, trade shows, and networking events including managing interdepartmental involvement to maximize the opportunities further
• Build, develop, and manage relationships with retail partners to drive profitable premium in the Commercial Auto space
• Consistent and regular meetings with various levels of the agency - Producers and CSRs
• Use reporting and analytics to identify state and partner trends to create strategy to influence a large cohort of partners.
• Collaborate cross functionally to develop and execute best practices, process improvements, and strategic initiatives designed to benefit both partners and Pie-oneers (work hand in hand with Strategic Account Managers)

Tracking, reporting, and executing to performance metrics and industry trends:

• Maintain and monitor industry insights, trends, or customer preferences to determine focus of sales efforts and business decisions, transition to actionable items to benefit both the partner and profitability for Pie
• Monitor and report progress on initiatives in support of the department's and company OKRs
• Develop and implement plans to drive profitable premium growth and retention for new and current partnerships. Leverage data and feedback to improve the execution of the strategic initiative in both external (partner) and internal (Pie-Oneers) teams
• Assist in forecasting distribution channel premium on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis

The Right Stuff

• High school diploma or equivalent required. Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 5+ years total professional working experience in Business Development and/or Client Relationship/Account Management
• 2+ years Commercial Auto or other commercial insurance experience preferred
• Adaptable to changes in goals, priorities, workflow, and role responsibilities. Desire a fast paced results drive environment at a growing company
• Advanced communication (written, verbal and presentation) skills, to deliver complex information effectively with a thoughtful and collaborative approach. Strong self-awareness and ability to manage own emotions and behavior.  Strong confidence, self- awareness and ability to manage emotions and behavior - Executive Presence
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills and ability to pivot to the unique needs of the audience
• Proven ability to set and achieve personal and professional goals with ownership and accountability for performance, while prioritizing tasks by importance and deadline
• Promotes cooperation and commitment within a team to achieve goals and deliverables
• Salesforce, Google Suite, Looker (data warehouse)
• Demonstrated success achieving extraordinary sales targets

Travel up to 25% is required.

This is an incentive pay based position and as such, there is no guaranteed commission amount. The on-target commission for this role is  approximately $15,000 and is based on successfully meeting performance and production expectations.