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Lead strategy, sales and marketing for ESIS Specialty Claims; build and manage national specialty sales team; drive new business from programs, MGAs/MGUs, captives and brokers; collaborate with claims and account teams; develop products, pricing, and metrics; represent ESIS externally and ensure achievement of sales targets.

The Business Development Manager role focuses on managing agency relationships, acquiring new clients, enhancing retention, and executing effective sales strategies in Northern and Central California.

Manage the commercial automobile insurance portfolio by analyzing claims, pricing, underwriting, and market data to identify loss drivers and performance opportunities. Develop portfolio monitoring requirements, underwriting rules, and strategic recommendations supporting profitable growth. Partner with underwriting, product, pricing, actuarial, claims, analytics, and catastrophe teams to evaluate initiatives, optimize strategies, and communicate results. Conduct segment, competitor, and market analyses while advancing analytics-driven underwriting digitization.

Leads commercial insurance underwriting and new business production across a Pacific Northwest region through 8–12 matrixed underwriters. Responsibilities include deal approval, productivity management, coaching, profitability and production analysis, market strategy, distribution partnerships, audit and compliance oversight, authority delegation, talent management, and hiring support. The role drives revenue growth, ensures underwriting execution, develops business plans, and maintains internal and external relationships. Travel is required as needed.

Conduct equipment breakdown risk evaluations, boiler and pressure vessel inspections, claims investigations, loss estimates, and risk improvement assessments. Identify hazardous conditions, evaluate controls and maintenance programs, recommend corrective actions, and prepare reports supporting underwriting and premium decisions. Build relationships with underwriters, claims teams, agents, and customers while managing a regional territory, delivering consultations and safety presentations, and traveling to field locations.

The Claim Director manages complex asbestos and environmental claims, analyzes policies, negotiates agreements, oversees litigation, and mentors staff.

Lead the Walnut Creek commercial insurance underwriting portfolio (~$200M+ GWP), owning P&L, underwriting strategy, portfolio growth and retention across Technology, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, and Food. Develop territory and distribution strategies, drive new business and cross-sell with specialty partners, ensure underwriting quality and governance, and manage a team of underwriters while partnering with regional leadership, HR, and brokers. Regular travel across the Bay Area, Central Valley, and Sacramento.

Support planning, research, coordination, and analysis for community-scale climate resilience initiatives. Conduct cost-benefit and catastrophe model–informed analysis, engage stakeholders, track project milestones, develop metrics, reports, case studies, and outreach materials to advance resilient projects and inform investment decisions.

Investigate and manage workers' compensation claims: gather evidence, interview parties, prepare reports, set and recommend reserves, collaborate on complex exposures, obtain documentation, and process claim payments to ensure timely, accurate, equitable resolution.

Train under supervision to manage workers' compensation claims from intake to resolution. Investigate incidents, review medical records, communicate with injured workers and providers, make compensability decisions, document activity in claim systems, control costs and reserves, ensure legal compliance, and collaborate with internal teams to achieve optimal claim outcomes.