State Head

Job Description: The role involves a complete understanding of the Indian Insurance space, with good exposure to products and processes. The role holder will be responsible forinsurance business development, client and product strategy, as well as, developing specific market plans that will create a robust pipeline for long-term growth in the Insurance Distribution Practice targeting the farmers and Cultivators and app downloads.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely VP-Sales in devising business strategy for Insurance distribution business.
• Drive innovation through differentiated product offerings.
• Manage all regulatory & compliance interaction with Insurance companies & internal teams.
• Develop and manage a high-performance team in support of strategic and growth objectives.
• Extensive travel may be required within the state allotted.
• In-depth knowledge of the Insurance industry and the competitive landscape in the distribution of insurance products.
• Ability to anticipate client needs in a way that builds product capabilities and opportunities to gain competitive advantage.
• Take a data-driven approach to their growth journey.
• Work with product ops teams in developing new applications, product enhancements etc.
• Conduct periodic Sales training, call center operations training etc. to ensure the ecosystem of users and service providers are up to speed with the latest capabilities and processes

What you need to bring to the 'table

• Hard core sales profession
• Distribution champion
• Understand rural markets and their landscape.
• Tech Savvy
• Customer obsession: keeping them at the core while solving problems.
• Understand and speak the local language
• Languages: Local languages like Kannada (if Bengaluru), (Gujarati, if Ahmedabad, & Odia, if Bhubaneshwar + Fluent Hindi and English)

Educational Qualification: MBA from a premier institution with 8-15 years of B2B and B2C sales experience.