Employee Benefits Marketing and Proposal Leader

Bowling Green, KY (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead the employee benefits marketing and proposal operations, guiding strategy, content, and team delivery for complex client proposals.

  • Must-have: 7–10+ years in employee benefits marketing, underwriting, or carrier relations and RFP/proposal experience.
  • Standout: Proven leadership of a marketing team and cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Underwriting, and Compliance.
  • Strong data-driven content, market analyses, and carrier negotiations informing client recommendations.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Market employee benefit plans to carriers and vendor partners for new business and renewals.
  • Develop marketing strategies based on client objectives, claims experience, demographics, and funding arrangements.
  • Prepare and distribute complete, accurate marketing submissions to carriers; manage all follow-up and data requests.
  • Evaluate carrier proposals, negotiate rates and terms, and prepare clear and accurate comparison analyses for internal teams and clients.
  • Recommend optimal plan designs, funding strategies, and carrier selections based on market results and client goals.
  • Maintain strong relationships with carrier underwriters and representatives to stay current on underwriting guidelines, product offerings, and competitive positioning.
  • Ensure all marketing activities comply with regulatory requirements and agency standards.
  • Oversee the marketing team’s creation of RFP responses, renewal proposals, and finalist presentations for prospects and existing clients.
  • Collaborate with account teams, underwriting, compliance, and subject-matter experts to gather and refine proposal content.
  • Ensure proposals are client-specific, data-driven, and aligned with the agency's capabilities and value proposition.
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Houchens Insurance Group Inc.

Our family is the result of 5 different organizations coming together as one cohesive group (HIG), leveraging the expertise of each of our legacy agencies to operate as one synergized team. We started with Center of Insurance becoming part of Houchens in the late 90’s. Gradually we added Insurance Specialist as our benefits expertise, then Van Meter Insurance joined the team in 2006 which brought a toolbox full of resources to allow the organization to compete at the next level. In 2007 Curneal Hignite came on board giving us a presence in Elizabethtown, and finally the 100 year old agency in Northern KY and Lexington;Roeding Insurance added expertise in the Public Entity arena and added a significant volume to our commercial book. All of this combined revenue was originally $35M and today it has grown to over $80M with 325 employee/owners with plans to be at 100M in 5 years. We recently were voted as the number one Best Place to Work in the state of Kentucky. We were also recognized as the 31st Largest Insurance Agency in the United States, as well as a Best Practice Agency.

Founded in 1977
Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA