Primary Purpose:
Responsible for generating a predetermined new business sales volume through a network of licensed agents.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.
- Accountable for making a high volume of sales calls to targeted life and health agents, quoting cases and issuing policies
- Actively utilize the internal CRM sales tracking system to validate and record sales calls, quotes, and recruited agents
- Prospect and generate Small Group new business proposals for your agent network
- Evaluate agent performance and continually recruit agents to fill the sales pipeline
- Prospect for potential agents from referrals, references or industry listings
- Provide guidance to agents in developing selling strategies to obtain new and retain existing business
- Manager agent relationships regarding perceived problems with claims processing, underwriting, rate increases, and company decisions impacting an agent's clients
- Provide timely communication to agents on product offerings, network changes, rate changes and plan designs
- Effectively collaborate with District Manager and Sales Representatives when working with health agents that have an established relationship with the team
- Incumbent will be required to obtain a Life/A&H license in state of residence and any other state that the incumbent conducts business, which should be completed within 60 days of receiving approval from the resident state; however, we recognize that in some states the licensing process may take longer
Required Skills and Competencies:
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Bachelor Degree or in-lieu of degree equivalent education, training and work-related experience
- 2+ years of sales related experience
- Experience working ancillary products, dental, vision, life and disability products
- Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills in dealing with leadership of agencies and the C-Suite of employer groups
- Strategic and consultative selling experience
- Ability to adapt to new situations and learn quickly
- Demonstrated experience in leading employee benefits sales meetings and following a structured sales process
- A solid understanding of information technology used to provide employee benefits solutions (experience/understanding online enrollment technology, decision support tools and integration with payroll services
- Effective organization and time management skills with the ability to work under pressure and adhere to project deadlines
- High degree of initiative, mature judgment, and self-motivation
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to establish working relationships with individuals at varying levels within the organization
- Strong time management skills
- Must be able and willing to travel
- Ability to keep confidential information secured
Desired Skills:
- Experience working with insurance producers selling over the phone or face to face
- Health insurance industry business experience in the ancillary product portfolio
- Variety of computer software knowledge related to job
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