• Oversees an assigned territory with broad and challenging agency partners driving profitable premium growth to achieve financial and operational goals • Creates, implements and executes territory and agency strategies to achieve short term and long term goals utilizing all company programs, tools and resources in collaboration with internal business partners • Owns the business development process within assigned market area with heavy emphasis on developing a pipeline of profitable new business and renewal retention • Continually identifies and evaluates prospects for new agencies within the territory • Builds and cultivates complex agency partnerships in person with agency ownership, management and frontline team members • Creates, drives, and manages strong producer relationships through high visibility, clear knowledge of company strategy and joint sales planning • Communicates with branch team about complex agency relationships and proactively coordinates actions to address potential issues, involving other departments as appropriate • Builds and executes an effective agency management sales plan with broad and challenging agencies to achieve maximum production and profit goals in assigned territory • Leads assigned geographical territory and agency management processes (e.g. agency prospecting, business planning, engagement, training, compensation, etc)