Market Development Director

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Position Summary

The Market Development Director is responsible for building and scaling the market for R3s Proactive Intervention solution. This consultative sales leader will develop new clients and channel partnerships across workers compensation commercial auto and casualty disability and absence self-insured employers and fleets TPAs captives brokers and consultants. The role will position Proactive Intervention as an early behavioral health engagement strategy that helps organizations address the human factors that can increase claim complexity delay recovery and return to work or duty elevate litigation risk and create operational disruption. This is a category-building role for a strategic commercial leader who can educate the market create demand open executive-level relationships and establish a repeatable growth engine for differentiated solutions.

Essential Functions

• Lead the acquisition and expansion of R3s first wave of Proactive Intervention clients and channel partners.
• Create demand for Proactive Intervention as a strategy to support recovery improve return-to-work or return-to-duty outcomes reduce claim complexity and associated costs mitigate litigation risk and strengthen workforce continuity.
• Build repeatable go-to-market motions across workers compensation commercial auto and casualty self-insured employers and fleets TPAs captives and broker or consultant channels.
• Turn market learning into sharper positioning referral triggers packaging pricing implementation models and proof points.
• Build a focused go-to-market plan named-account strategy and qualified pipeline across priority segments.
• Generate opportunities through executive outreach outbound prospecting channel activation conferences referrals and partnerships.
• Test segment and buyer response then provide structured feedback that improves commercial strategy.
• Lead discovery with claims risk safety HR finance legal operations and benefit management stakeholders.
• Uncover the emotional communication recovery return-to-work or return-to-duty attorney-involvement and total-cost-of-risk factors affecting claims.
• Build clear business cases and value narratives for carriers self-insured organizations fleets TPAs and captive portfolios.
• Guide complex opportunities from first conversation through proposal contracting implementation and early expansion.
• Develop referral reseller co-sell pilot embedded-service and preferred-partner pathways.
• Partner with Marketing on industry messaging webinars conference strategy thought leadership target-account campaigns and partner enablement.
• Represent R3 as a credible market ambassador for early behavioral health intervention and proactive support for injured employees drivers passengers claimants and other people affected by workplace injuries collisions illnesses or disruptive events.
• Maintain strong CRM discipline qualification forecasting next-step clarity and pipeline hygiene.
• Create reusable discovery tools objection handling target-account criteria buyer maps and sales assets.
• Collaborate closely with Clinical Operations Implementation Marketing Customer Partnerships and Finance to ensure that proposed and contracted solutions align with R3s service capabilities implementation requirements and client expectations.

Secondary Functions

• Participate in department and company meetings as requested
• Perform other duties as assigned

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Ability to translate human outcomes into measurable business value including potential impact on claim costs total cost of risk claim severity and duration litigation exposure lost time and operational continuity.
• Confidence engaging senior leaders and cross-functional buying groups across financial operational clinical risk claims safety HR benefits legal and procurement functions.
• Excellent presentation writing negotiation account strategy and executive communication skills.
• Commercial judgment curiosity persistence and comfort building a category rather than inheriting a mature playbook.
• Familiarity with partner-led growth pilot programs broker roadshows insurance conferences and national-account selling.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software

Education & Licensing

• Bachelors degree in business marketing risk management insurance healthcare administration or a related field required.

Experience

• 10 years in B2B consultative sales partnerships channel development or market development with meaningful exposure to one or more relevant fields such as insurance risk claims workers compensation commercial auto casualty disability or absence occupational health workforce health safety captives or enterprise employers required.
• Demonstrated success creating demand for a new or emerging solution opening new markets securing executive sponsorship and closing complex enterprise or channel-driven opportunities required.
• Experience with claims economics lost-time claims return-to-work psychosocial risk factors litigation escalation managed care nurse case management or carrier and TPA workflows required.
• Experience in commercial auto bodily injury fleet or casualty claims captives disability or absence occupational health injury recovery critical incident support EAP or workforce wellbeing preferred.
• Experience selling to complex risk-bearing employers in transportation logistics manufacturing construction utilities retail and distribution public sector first responders or healthcare operations preferred.

Working Conditions: Work is generally sedentary in nature but may require standing and walking for up to 10% of the time. Lighting and temperature are adequate and there are no hazardous or unpleasant conditions caused by noise dust etc. Work is generally performed within an office environment with standard office equipment available. This position may require periodic travel for client and partner meetings conferences industry events and other business-development activities.

The starting pay range for this position is $/annually. The positions pay range represents the national average pay for similar roles. R3 considers factors such as (but not limited to) experience internal pay equity and other business considerations when extending an offer.

All applicants must reside in the United States. Employment contingent on a successful background check work history verification reference checks and signing a non-disclosure agreement.

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