Eric Lemieur

Eric Lemieur

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Head of Sales & Distribution, Insurance
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

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  • Porch Group
    Head of Sales & Distribution
    Porch Group
    Jan 2025 - Current (1 year 8 months)
    I was recruited and hired to build and lead the national insurance distribution strategy across independent agency, national account, and strategic partner channels for Homeowners of America and Porch Insurance (a multi-state carrier and insurtech-enabled organization). • Architected and built a full scale distribution organization from inception, spanning agency recruiting, activation, relationship management, national accounts, analytics, marketing, sales operations, and licensing. • Responsible for profitable premium growth, agency expansion, market penetration, and enterprise go-to-market execution across 20+ states. • Serve as the Porch’s senior executive presence across its most strategically significant and complex distribution relat
  • Farmers Insurance
    Interim Head of Territory (SVP)
    Farmers Insurance
    Jan 2023 - Jan 2024 (1 year 1 month)
    I was named interim Head of Territory (SVP) for nine months (concurrent with role as Head of Field Sales Operations) following major organizational restructuring, leading a seamless transition while driving strategy, managing cross-functional teams, and maintaining business continuity to exceed revenue targets during a critical time.
  • Farmers Insurance
    Executive Strategy Advisor
    Farmers Insurance
    Jan 2023 - Jul 2023 (7 months)
    I was selected by the CEO for an Executive Strategy Advisor role to lead a seven-month company-wide three-year strategic roadmap across multiple cross-functional teams to set culture, vision, strategy, and goals.
  • Farmers Insurance
    Head of Field Sales Operations (VP)
    Farmers Insurance
    Mar 2021 - Jan 2025 (3 years 11 months)
    I was promoted to lead the strategic direction and execute agent recruiting and onboarding, agency development, revenue generation, distribution, operations, and full P&L in a 25-state territory comprising ~2K exclusive agents and $3B in Gross Written Premium (GWP) across personal/commercial lines, life, and financial services. Some highlights include: • Providing direct executive-level leadership to a multi-layered structure of five field regional sales teams and matrix influence of 200+ recruiting, onboarding and internal sales/support individuals. • Leading territory to YoY increases in GWP and agency revenue by 16% and 11% respectively by improving agency onboarding efforts, expanding footprint, and implementing targeted strategies to
  • Foremost Insurance
    Senior Director - Strategic Planning & Analytics
    Foremost Insurance
    Jan 2018 - Mar 2021 (3 years 3 months)
    I was promoted to take on a 13-member IA Learning and Development team while maintaining Salesforce Operations (CRM) and IA Analytics & Reporting teams. Some achievements include: • Leading L&D team and set strategic vision to optimize training and professional development for 180+ sales staff and 32K+ independent agents. • Directing Salesforce operations team, accountable for the design and development of functionality, process, integrations, and training. Partnered with sales to understand evolving business needs and ensure proper engagement. • Revolutionizing sales team go-to-market strategy by implementing a data-driven decision-making framework deploying real-time agent performance alerts, territory manager calls to action, agent trend
  • Foremost Insurance
    Director - Distribution Strategy & Reporting
    Foremost Insurance
    Jan 2016 - Jan 2018 (2 years 1 month)
    I secured this role due to expertise in both client-facing and sales operations to align and lead a formerly cross-functional team focused on strategy and reporting/segmentation. Some notables include: • Optimizing productivity and profitability of the Independent Agent Channel by conceptualizing, developing, and implementing strategic programs and initiatives, including agency segmentation, organizational design, distribution models, sales capacity planning, resource allocation, agency compensation, and organizational planning. • Designing and deploying an agency planning tool with intuitive functionality to empower sales staff to develop more sophisticated contact plans with minimal technical skill and effort. This resulted in significant
  • Foremost Insurance
    Senior Manager - Distribution Strategy & Reporting
    Foremost Insurance
    Jan 2012 - Jan 2016 (4 years 1 month)
    Led workforce analysis and collaborated with executive leadership to develop and implement a strategic reduction plan, ensuring minimal impact on business operations.
  • Foremost Insurance
    Manager - Strategic Initiatives
    Foremost Insurance
    Jan 2009 - Jan 2012 (3 years 1 month)
    I was recruited back to Foremost Insurance to lead and execute the CMO's strategic priorities. I drove leadership of cross-functional projects spanning consumer, agent, and centralized functions. Responsible for all aspects of project work, stakeholder management, people management and operations.
  • Bearingpoint
    Manager
    Bearingpoint
    Jan 2008 - Jan 2009 (1 year 1 month)
    Management consultant responsible for driving business development and go to market strategies in the finance and risk management space. Partnered with senior leadership at global Fortune 500 organizations to lead projects focused on corporate strategy, business intelligence, risk management, and business process improvement. Sample projects include: • Documented as-is current state, industry comparables, internal performance indicators and market drivers for various Fortune 500 clients • Facilitated workshops with executives and managers to define and align on strategic plans • Worked closely with client executive management and subject matter experts to define a new regulation strategy for a leading regulator that would allow for improve
  • Bearingpoint
    Senior Consultant
    Bearingpoint
    Jan 2007 - Jan 2008 (1 year 1 month)
  • Bearingpoint
    Consultant
    Bearingpoint
    Jan 2006 - Jan 2007 (1 year 1 month)
  • Bearingpoint
    Senior Analyst
    Bearingpoint
    Jan 2004 - Jan 2006 (2 years 1 month)
  • Foremost Insurance
    Territory Manager
    Foremost Insurance
    Jan 2001 - Jan 2003 (2 years 1 month)
    • Managed a portfolio of independent agents fostering strong partnerships and negotiating annual production plans. • Drove regional growth of Specialty products by developing and executing sales strategies across 4 states, achieving double digit growth in GWP two consecutive years.
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  • Western Michigan University
    MBA, Finance
    Western Michigan University
  • University of Michigan
    Bachelor's degree, Economics
    University of Michigan
  • UCLA Anderson School of Management
    Advanced Leadership Development
    UCLA Anderson School of Management
    Jan 2017 - Jan 2018 (1 year 1 month)
    The UCLA Advanced Leadership Development Program is a ten-month program created and delivered in a partnership between the University of Farmers and the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
  • Yale School of Management
    BearingPoint Leadership Certificate, Leadership
    Yale School of Management
    Jan 2008
    BearingPoint / Yale School of Management Leadership Program
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