Principal, Business Development

🕒 August 21

🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💰 Business Development (BDR)

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KKR

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1976

🛡️ Insurance

💼 Consulting

💸 Finance

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2016-11

Insurance • Consulting • Finance

KKR is a leading global investment firm founded in 1976. It provides asset management, capital markets, and insurance solutions to institutional investors, families, and global wealth clients. KKR's investment approach spans private equity, credit, infrastructure, real estate, and strategic partnerships, focusing on delivering strong returns and shared success. The firm leverages a vast network of resources to drive operational excellence and support the growth of the companies it invests in. KKR serves a diverse range of clients, including pensions, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, and foundations.

📋 Description

• Own an assigned portfolio of strategic preneed distribution accounts • Develop and execute account-level business plans to meet or exceed annual sales, retention, and profitability targets • Prospect, qualify, and close new strategic account relationships • Lead contracting, onboarding, and go-live with sales leadership, legal, compliance, and operations • Serve as senior day-to-day relationship owner for principals, corporate leaders, and top-producing agents • Conduct business reviews, joint planning sessions, and on-site visits • Partner with Regional Sales, Account Management, and Strategic Accounts teams to convert pipeline into closed production • Surface product, illustration, technology, and service enhancements and shape the strategic-account roadmap • Lead executive presentations, RFP responses, and industry-conference engagement • Maintain Salesforce CRM activity logs, production forecasts, and weekly/monthly pipeline reporting • Coach and informally mentor team members

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience • 8+ years of progressive sales, business development, or key/strategic account management experience, with meaningful time in life insurance, annuities, or preneed distribution • Demonstrated track record of carrying and exceeding a multi-million-dollar production or premium quota through third-party distribution • Proven ability to open, contract, and scale complex, multi-stakeholder distribution relationships • Strong command of preneed and/or life insurance product mechanics, illustrations, and regulatory considerations across multiple states • Excellent executive presence with credibility to advise principals and C-suite counterparts • Skilled in Salesforce and modern sales technologies • Life insurance licensing or willingness to obtain within a defined onboarding period • Willingness and ability to travel 8–12 nights per month across the U.S. • Ability to work from a home office • Strategic account ownership, consultative selling, executive presence, preneed/life insurance acumen, pipeline and forecasting discipline, cross-functional collaboration, results orientation, communication and influence, integrity and regulatory awareness