Chris Riter Email & Phone Number

Lake Forest, Il, Us

Lake Forest, Il

• Licensed Life and Health insurance agent.• Prospects and qualifies independent insurance agents over a national region to sell self-funded employer sponsored health plans.• Designs employee benefit packages for self-funded health plans, life, dental, and ancillary insurance products. • Partners with insurance brokers and their clients to assess benefit needs and cost strategy.• Brings value of the Trustmark Small Business Benefits suite of products to the 5 or more enrolled employee market. • Coordinates and assists in group enrollments.• "Go-to contact" for agents, on behalf of their clients, through new business sales cycle. • Doubled first year individual sales goal.• 2012 Sales Leader – Top 10 nationwide in sales totaling $2 million in issued premium.• 2014 Sales Leader – Top 9 nationwide in sales totaling $3.6 million in issued premium.• 2019 Sales Leader – Top 10 nationwide in sales totaling $3.1 million in issued premium.• 2020 Sales Leader – Top 3 nationwide in sales totaling $5.2 million in issued premium.• 2021 Sales Leader – Top 2 nationwide in sales totaling $3.8 million in issued premium.• 2022 Sales Leader – Top 8 nationwide in sales totaling $3.2 million in issued premium.Chris Riter Executive Sales Consultant Small Business Benefits 400 Field DriveLake Forest, IL 60045p: 847.283.2245CRiter@trustmarkbenefits.comBig Benefits for Small Businesses.TrustmarkSB.com

• Managed full life cycle recruitment process for Fortune 500 clients’ exempt and non-exempt positions including: Software/Hardware/Electrical/Mechanical/Network Engineers and Administrators, Help Desk/Desktop Support, Project Managers, QA/Validation Analysts, Business/Financial/DatabaseAnalysts, OSP Engineers, Field Technicians, Graphic Designers, Manufacturing/General Labor, Customer Service Reps, and Sales Professionals.• Responsible as a Recruiting Team Lead and national point of contact for the nationwide recruiting efforts and relationship management for Fortune 50 clients.• Facilitated recruitment strategies by managing teams of junior recruiters to meet goals.• Maintained positive rapport and productive relationships with regional staffing managers. • Collaborated with hiring managers and internal recruiting teams to determine staffing needs, sourcing strategies, and selection criteria.• Identified, developed, and maintained productive relationships with key candidate sources including networks, referrals, and educational organizations.• Tracked candidate progress by entering and updating internal databases and HRIS. • Coordinated job offers and unsuccessful candidate notification.• Negotiated compensation and coordinated start dates with hiring managers.• Prepared recruiting activity reports.• Strategized and led recruiting efforts for a Fortune 50 project with a two week deadline equaling over 50 placements in a two week period resulting in over 100% net increase in placements for July, 2007.

• Resolved customer billing disputes, handled credits and adjustments, issued manager escalations, created new accounts, transferred and terminated services.• Created appointment dates/work orders for service installation and repair.• Positioned products based on customer credit approval and availability to make presentations based on sales strategies, promotions and customer need. • Multi-tasked with various work groups through ordering applications and databases on Unix and Windows platforms.• Possessed a current and thorough understanding of existing and pre-existing product lines along with cost and functional interactions.• Utililized problem solving and conflict resolution to maintain high service standards.

• Sourced and screened eligible job candidates for direct-placement Account Manager Sales positions.• Scheduled and conducted telephone and face to face interviews.• Staffing Specialist and HR functions for new hires such as: wrote offer letters, administered, tracked, and reported background check and drug-screen results, and new entries into payroll system.• Utilized various HRIS to enter and update employee data.• Implemented and supported staff augmentation and reduction efforts• Audited all HR files for the previous five years for the BCS Staffing division to ensure full compliance with federal and corporate records management regulations, as well as process improvement for file retrieval and archiving. • Maintained client relationship by accommodating immediate needs by priority while following through on the completion of long term assignments.

• Conducted telephone pre-screening and recommended highly qualified candidates for next steps in the recruiting process.• Reviewed and evaluated application profiles for telecom, retail, wireless, insurance, and transportation companies open positions. • Client Services Liaison wherein duties varied from on-site staffing for high priority clients including new recruitment and staff reduction, administrative assistance, compliance auditing.• Conducted behavioral interviews and ranked job applicants in terms of specific eligibility criteria; communication skills, attendance history, role-playing scenarios, and ethics.• Scheduled and confirmed face to face and telephone interviews for hiring managers and prepared candidates with interview expectations.• Received several company awards including Employee of the Month.

Bachelor Of Arts, Visual And Performing Arts

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)