Hybrid Wholesaler - Group Benefits Small Market Sales Executive

Are you passionate about being part of a team that delivers extraordinary care to help individuals and businesses prepare for and protect their retirement? If so, then Nationwide Financial could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

This role will work out of our Houston, TX location.

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Job Description Summary

Are you passionate about cultivating effective relationships to drive sales growth? If you love a highly visible position where you can influence results through relationship-building and activation expertise, we want to know more about you!

As a Wholesaler, you’ll be responsible for recruiting, training, educating, motivating, and maintaining national and regional broker partners to sell, service and conserve business to ensure profitable growth and to meet sales objectives established for group health small cases in an assigned market within the territory.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities :

Recruiting new producers, training, growth objectives for assigned producers, sales production from workplace and individual products, achievement of premium growth objectives, and the servicing and conservation of insurance in force

Make qualified calls on groups with producers and provide enrollment support on a new producer’s first couple of accounts opened

Responsible for maintaining a positive working relationship with sales support, underwriting, policyholder services, billing support, compliance, commission accounting, home office personnel, and field management

Recruit, train, motivate and develop producers throughout assigned areas in the region

Contribute to effective relationships between the producers and home office departments

Help analyze markets and formulate recruiting programs, secure producers who will effectively produce quality premiums

Work with producers to help bring value to their existing book of business and develop new opportunities

Help implement and monitor procedures to improve persistency of business written in assigned area

Reporting Relationships : Reports to Manager or Director.

Typical Skills and Experiences :

Education : Bachelors’ degree preferred.

Experience : 5 plus years of experience preferred.

License / Certification / Designation : CEBS, CLU, and / or ChFC preferred.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills : Sales communication and relationship building skills required. Microsoft office proficiency. Strong work ethic. Ability to stay current on sales and marketing techniques and changes in state and federal law that affect the Company’s sales efforts and impact the insurance industry in general. Experience in recruitment and management of insurance sales force.

Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and Human Resource Business Partner.

Values : Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions :

Overtime Eligibility : Exempt (Not Eligible)

Working Conditions : Work from home / office sales environment. Requires minimal travel.

ADA : The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including : medical / dental / vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more.