Job description
Job Title: Life Insurance Specialist
Job Type: Full-Time- Hybrid
Compensation: $65,000-$75,000 + Commisions
We are seeking a motivated and knowledgeable Life Insurance Specialist to join the team. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of life insurance products, excellent communication & sales skills, and a passion for helping clients make informed decisions about their financial security.
Key Responsibilities:
- Contributing to the development and sustainable growth of life and group insurance portfolios and providing client-centric solutions and services.
- Engaging with prospects to proactively build a sales pipeline and developing marketing plans to promote life and group insurance offerings.
- Conducting needs analyses, reviewing client financial goals, providing education and recommendations in alignment with Know Your Client requirements, selling new policies, and documenting required changes or updates.
- Conducting regular reviews of client insurance plans, responding to client inquiries, and identifying additional sales opportunities.
- Participating in events to create brand awareness and developing, maintaining, and cultivating community contacts to enhance agency visibility and maximize new business opportunities.
To Be Successful:
- You remain focused and optimistic in the pursuit of a goal, despite barriers, until the objective is achieved and allocate time and resources to effectively manage the sales portfolio.
- You successfully build plans focused on expanding market penetration and apply an innovative mindset to improve operational efficiencies, with a client centric lens.
- You have strong communication skills to influence or persuade others to adopt a specific course of action and can effectively facilitate mutually beneficial solutions.
Qualifications:
- You have 2-3 years of experience in Sales, Business or Marketing, including experience in the financial services industry.
- You have a post-secondary education in a related discipline.
- You hold a Life License and it is in good standing
- You have or are working towards a Financial Planning designation, such as the Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU), or Professional Financial Advisor (PFA) designation(s).
- You have working knowledge and experience selling life and group insurance products is an asset.
What to expect:
- You are required to have your own vehicle, valid driver’s license, and insurance.
- You will travel regularly.
- Extended work hours, including evenings and weekends will be required.
- Strict confidentiality with respect to client’s medical history, financial status and other personal information.
- You will be subject to a Criminal Record and Consumer History background check as a condition of employment, in the event you are the successful candidate