Dre Dantzler

About Dre Dantzler

Understanding client concerns, pain points, and obstacles and developing a game plan to alleviate, solve, and overcome them are what I do. Building relationships is what I’m about. Building them internally has helped me market our services to our home office agents and building them externally has enabled me to understand client concerns, pain points, and obstacles. These relationships allow me to quickly solve all of those problems because if I don’t have the solution, I know who does and can quickly make the connection needed. Outside of work I enjoy physical fitness, running half-marathons, and watching the Gamecocks!

Experience

1. Strategic Account Manager

   Colonial Life

   Jun 2018 — Present · Columbia, SC, US

   An American insurance company offering disability, accident, life, cancer, critical illness, and hospital confinement insurance plans in 49 states, I have spent most of my career here. I was promoted to Strategic Account Manager after demonstrating my ability to work cross-functionally and solve client problems. My job is to create, implement, and manage enrollment and re-enrollment for public sector and commercial accounts with 500 employees or more. I have 38 clients in the Southwest and my book of business includes commercial and public sector accounts with over 500 employees. Accomplishments include:Enabling a client to solve a billing issue by working with our vendor to fund the upgrade of their software, which kept a annual force premium on the books.Onboarding a client who faced several setbacks including billing questions and technology challenges. By working cross-functionally and having the right relationships, we brought on a $1.5 million annual client.Retaining over $3.5 million in accounts in jeopardy of lapsing thanks to having detailed and thorough game plans to keep the relationship in place.

Education

• University of South Carolina

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Language and Literature/Letters

• University of South Carolina

  SC Bachelor's of Art, English

  1993 — 1998

Skills

• Team Building
• Management
• Microsoft Office
• Sales
• Insurance
• Communication
• Customer Satisfaction
• Training
• Software Documentation
• Microsoft Word
• Account Management
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Strategic Planning
• Health Insurance
• Brokers
• Life Insurance
• Public Speaking
• Health Savings Accounts
• Marketing
• Long-Term Care
• Term Life Insurance
• Outlook
• Leadership
• Whole Life
• Whole Life Insurance
• Employee Benefits
• Customer Service
• Disability Insurance