Bill Frith Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Commercial Trailer Leasing & Rental Co. is a 50+ year locally-owned business providing 53' and 48' dry vans for local road and storage use.Commercial Employers, Inc. is a 40+ year sister company providing payroll and benefits services to transportation-related businesses.JEBCO Properties, located near North Wilsonville, is an multi-use business park close.

Springfield, Oregon & Portland, Oregon

KPD Insurance is a 70+ employee agency specializing in risk solutions that take people and business well beyond an insurance policy. The COO role encompassed managing strong financials, fostering and promoting a positive working culture and strengthening the company's sales dynamic.

Oregon And The Pacific Northwest

Transitioning to Liberty Mutual following the 2008 Safeco Insurance acquisition, I returned to the insurance agency field to work with 40+ Oregon agencies (70+ locations) in business insurance. My focus was to promote overall profitable growth of 'Liberty Mutual within Independent agencies who represent many insurance carriers. This field of agencies grew.

Oregon And The Pacific Northwest

This new Safeco position put me in three roles. I was a member of the Northwest marketing and sales management team for personal and business insurance. I called on a field of Oregon Independent agencies, making connections and managing relationships to help them succeed with Safeco's multi-line products and services. Perhaps my most significant role was.

Oregon

As the Sales Manager, I led the team of Sales Professionals working with 300+ agencies throughout the state in personal and business insurance. In addition to promoting profitable growth and turning problems into opportunity, the Sales Professionals were charged with helping agencies run their own businesses more successfully with various Safeco programs.

Oregon

Moving from agency and producer management, I utilized these skills to take one of the worst-performing territories in the country to the #1 territory for both years. In addition to my advocacy of Safeco personal, business and life products/services, I saw this role as a small business consultant to agency owners as well as a development resource to sales.

Oregon, Southwest Washington

Perhaps my most personally-rewarding position, I worked with almost 100 Independent agents/agencies who were newly-established with their agency or with Safeco. In addition to helping these people succeed in the business, the ultimate goal was to create Safeco advocate agents for years to come. My roles included consulting and managing the process of.

Oregon, Southwest Washington

I oversaw an operations staff that worked in various roles of accounting, data processing, underwriting support and quality control. During my time, we did regular workflow reviews to streamline processes for efficiency and improve data quality. We also improved our communication and working relationship with the underwriting department that was split.

Oregon, Southwest Washington

In this newly-created role for Safeco and for the insurance industry, this position focused on getting agencies acclimated and trained on automation/computer utilization for writing new business and servicing existing insureds. In addition to operations and billing training of agents, in person and over the phone, I was involved with helping agencies.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Business/Managerial Economics

Activities and Societies: * Cross country & track: conference champion 5K, team regional championships, team national championship top 10.

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