Vice President, Annuity Sales

Hub International Insurance • Providence, RI

11d • Remote

About The Position

The Annuity Sales VP will manage a group of producers and recruit new producers for profitable sales growth while upholding BSMG's values and standards, who thinks like an entrepreneur and delivers sales growth using our wholesaling best practices and mastering the delivery of our unique value propositions. The Annuity Sales VP is paired with an Internal Wholesaler to support all efforts towards managing and growing sales. We are currently looking for someone who has experience or is currently working within the Independent Dealer Channel (IBD) for this position.

Requirements

• Has experience or is currently working within the Independent Dealer Channel (IBD)
• Self-motivated and absolutely passionate about wholesaling excellence and sales growth
• Have at least 5 years of experience wholesaling
• Deep understanding and expertise within all categories of annuity products: income riders, death benefit riders, and accumulation benefit riders and their relation to variable, indexed and fixed annuities.
• Mastery of retirement planning concepts, including guaranteed income solutions, asset protection solutions and qualified funds rollover solutions.
• The candidate must understand how to motivate and develop business from brokers that have a healthy client base but who don't sell protection products.
• Must be well-organized, energetic, and be known as a follow-through professional.
• Superior customer service and ability to build productive long-term relationships.
• Exceptional interpersonal and networking skills (Including Linked-In)
• Solid professional writing skills.
• Must be detail-oriented, analytical, well-organized, assertive, confident, thoughtful, innovative and creative – all the attributes of a successful entrepreneur.
• Qualified candidates must possess a bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university with a concentration in finance, business or an equivalency of education and experience.
• Life Insurance license and Series 6 required.

Nice To Haves

• CLU, RICP and/or CFP designations highly desired.
• The candidate should have a group of "portable" producers that can reliably provide more than $40 million annually of premium (once up and running – after 2 years).

Responsibilities

• Manage book of active producers and prospects and demonstrates the ability to increase profitable sales amongst their book of producers.
• Be seen as the dominant wholesaling professional for producers through the use of several key sales strategies.
• Uphold wholesaling best practices including executing producer call plans, pipeline development and management in CRM, and prospecting call campaigns provided by BSMG.
• Maintain regular contact with top producers and prospective top producers and delivers high-value convincing sales presentations.
• Develop new production from producers, by understanding their unique situation and imparting the tools and concepts that create revenue and make the complex, simple, daily focus on high-value selling activities & exceeding service expectations to create fertile ground for deep customer relationships.
• Learn to tell our unique stories and deliver a compelling "buyer journey".
• Conduct oneself in accordance with BSMG values of service excellence, fair dealing, and client-first decision making.
• Focus on producers and prospects that are productive and avoiding those brokers who consume resource and do not deliver meaningful results.
• Believe in holding the clients' interest above all else.
• Be capable of developing an annual minimum of $2 million of fully commissionable premium within a 3-year period.
• Develop relationships with both producers and centers of influence as a consultative, trusted advisor instead of a product vendor.
• Consistently stay in contact to develop business from brokers that have a healthy client base but who don't sell protection products.
• Cross-sell and create revenue-producing referrals in Annuities and LTC.
• Present in one-on-one and small group settings.

Benefits

• An exceptional healthcare package
• 401(k) plan
• Competitive pay with comprehensive health benefits, retirement savings matching and company-paid life and disability plans
• Generous paid time off, paid parental leave and a wellbeing program designed to support real work/life balance
• health/dental/vision/life/disability insurance, FSA, HSA and 401(k) accounts, paid-time-off benefits, and eligible bonuses, equity and commissions for some positions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior