Advisor

Baldwin Group Colleague, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

CAC Group in the United States seeks an Advisor to sell new accounts and renewals, building strong relationships with clients, prospects, the service team, and insurance company partners. You will present proposals, finalize sales, and maintain detailed documentation to support service delivery.

Responsibilities include maintaining underwriting knowledge, pursuing new prospects through networking and affiliations, and traveling as needed while ensuring accuracy and timeliness to minimize errors.

Qualifications

• Maintain all required state insurance licenses within the first 90 days.
• Strong verbal and written presentation skills.
• Ability to influence others through effective communication.

Responsibilities

• Presents proposals in a professional manner and reviews coverages in detail for understanding.
• Finalizes the sale and collects necessary documents and briefs the service team.
• Develops prospects through community involvement, seminars, networking, and referrals.
• Maintains knowledge of underwriting criteria and communicates to all involved.
• Travel as required; ensures accuracy, timeliness, and avoids errors or omissions.

Skills

Communication

Networking

Education

Insurance licensing requirements

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

Publisher

PowerPoint

Job description

The Advisor sells new accounts and renews existing accounts in keeping with firm and individual goals. Advisors build and maintain relationships with clients, prospects, the service team, insurance company partners, and centers of influence while identifying and soliciting sales prospects.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Presents proposals in a professional manner, reviewing coverages in detail to ensure understanding. Communicates with clients, prospects, insurance company partners, and service team in an articulate and effective manner. Finalizes the sale and collects necessary documents, applications, etc., and briefs the service team on the policy sale. Develops prospects by becoming involved in community affiliations, attending insurance company partner hosted seminars, building and maintaining relationships with industry contacts, engaging in networking events and through referrals from current accounts. Develops information and recommendations for prospective accounts, presents proposals and adheres to firm policies and procedures for writing a new account. Maintains a concern for accuracy, timeliness and completion when interacting with current and prospective clients, the Firm and Insurance Company Partners, to minimize potential for errors and omissions claims while demonstrating strong organizational skills with a high attention to detail. Maintains understanding and knowledge of the insurance industry and underwriting criteria for insurance company partners represented by the firm to effectively communicate to all involved. Positively represents the firm in the community and with our insurance company partners. Performs other functions as assigned by leadership. Looks for opportunities to improve the firm, business segment, and processes. Brings issues and discrepancies to the attention of appropriate leadership. Is expected to meet monthly new business goals.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & AMELITIES:

• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Publisher, and PowerPoint, and the ability to learn any other appropriate insurance company and firm software programs. Demonstrates core values, exuding behavior that is aligned with corporate culture.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• Maintains all licenses as required by the State Department of Insurance to provide risk management consulting or risk transfer solutions as necessary in states where the firm functions (or be willing and able to obtain all required licenses within the first 90 days of employment).Self-starter with the ability to influence others through effective verbal and written presentation skills.

OTHER:

• Fast paced, multi-tasking environment. Travel is required. Lifting up to 10 pounds, with some walking, standing, reaching, and the use of hands for the computer.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

This position description is intended to describe the level of work required of the person performing in the role and is not a contract. The essential responsibilities are outlined; other duties may be assigned as needs arise or as required to support the organization. All requirements may be subject to reasonable accommodation to applicants and colleagues who need them for medical or religious reasons.

CAC Group is an equal employment opportunity firm and strives to comply with all laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin or ancestry, disability, military status, marital status, and any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws. All such discrimination is unlawful, and all persons involved in the operations of the firm are prohibited from engaging in this conduct.