Lead Field Marketing Specialist - Crop

This is a full-time, remote role based in California, USA. Local and overnight travel is required.

About the role

In this role, you will develop and execute marketing initiatives within your area of responsibility by implementing sales, marketing, and agent training activities to ensure alignment with company objectives and drive organizational growth.

Responsibilities

• Drive effective marketing strategies that meet business needs and promote a positive corporate image by planning and implementing outstanding sales and customer retention and development.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across the organization by managing new business development, identifying opportunities for process improvements, and assisting leaders with translating business needs into wide-reaching, executable results.
• Design and deliver ongoing marketing support by developing and facilitating agent training sessions, sharing knowledge and expertise, and implementing cost-effective marketing plans.
• Streamline marketing processes by refining existing processes, recommending enhancements, implementing innovative marketing solutions, supporting organizational initiatives, and applying industry best practices.
• Manage budgeted resources by anticipating expenditures, accurately forecasting resource needs and costs, and properly accounting for expenses to meet requirements and achieve fiscal responsibility.
• Contribute to a positive environment by demonstrating cultural expectations and guiding leaders to reward performance and value accountability, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, continuous improvement, collaboration, creativity, and fun.
• Adopt QBE values in personal work behaviors, decision-making, contributions, and interpersonal interactions; manage your own career development by soliciting feedback and valuing other perspectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 4 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Anticipate obstacles, estimate time and resources needed for project completion.
• Manage multiple projects or responsibilities concurrently and effectively; complete tasks attentively and thoroughly.
• Build, nurture, and maintain complex relationships.
• Communicate information clearly, well-organized, and professionally.
• Generate original, innovative solutions to difficult or unusual situations.
• Motivational, inspirational, and enthusiastic approach to team involvement and engagement.
• Work effectively under pressure.
• Establish long-range objectives and specify strategies and actions to achieve them.
• Respond calmly, quickly, and decisively to unpredictable or unexpected events and changes.
• Collaborate with people at different levels within the organization to accomplish a common goal.
• Adjust plans, goals, actions, or priorities to meet changing situations.
• Marketing experience in a large, fast-paced organization.
• Claims and/or crop insurance experience.
• Increasing levels of responsibility.

Preferred Knowledge

• Advanced working knowledge of events affecting the industry, including understanding of competition and the marketplace.
• Advanced working knowledge of products and concepts relating to the insurance industry.
• Advanced working knowledge of terminology, function, and fundamental capabilities of common computer, software, information, and communication technology devices, components, and concepts.

Pay

The starting salary range for this role is between $87,500 and $131,500, depending on experience and location. The salary offer will be decided based on the role's complexity, its location, and the candidate’s professional background, including their education and experience.

Benefits

• Hybrid working – a mix of working from home and in the office.
• 22 weeks of paid leave for family growth, with 12 weeks available to all parents on a gender-equal basis.
• Competitive 401(k) program with company match up to 8%.
• Well-being program including holistic well-being coaching, gym membership, confidential counseling, financial and legal advice.
• Tuition reimbursement for professional certifications and continuing education.
• Annual discretionary bonus plan based on business and individual performance.
• Employee Network and Community – active support for six Employee Networks and many ways to give back to your community.