Financial Advisor - Career Changers Welcome

Northwestern Mutual; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 60,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Uncapped income potential

Licensing/credentialing sponsorship

Development bonuses

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Retirement plan

Job summary

Northwestern Mutual invites career-driven professionals to join as financial advisors, offering a path to build a personal practice with extensive training and robust support. You will help clients create a holistic financial roadmap using retirement planning, investments, insurance, and estate planning.

This role emphasizes autonomy, ethics, and strong client relationships, with uncapped income potential. The program provides sponsorship for licensing, ongoing development bonuses, comprehensive

Qualifications

• BA or BS degree from a four-year institution preferred.
• Prior sales and/or business experience preferred and possess a history of personal and professional success.
• Prior financial services experience not needed -- extensive training platform provided.

Responsibilities

• Understand clients' goals to develop a holistic financial roadmap using retirement, investment, insurance, estate, and education planning.
• Maintain autonomy and flexibility to build your own practice with training and support from our network.
• Pursue a career with Northwestern Mutual that offers income potential and meaningful impact through relationships and integrity.

Skills

Sales experience

Entrepreneurial spirit

Self-motivation

Ethics

Business development

Education

BA or BS degree

Job description

Have you ever thought of starting your own business but not sure how to get started? A new Advisor is typically a career changer who has hit a ceiling in their current industry, desires a more stable work environment and wants to be control of their career trajectory. They possess an entrepreneurial spirit, history of success in business development or sales, strong self-motivation, a high standard of ethics, and desires to make a meaningful impact on people's lives.

The advisor career with Northwestern Mutual allows one the opportunity to:

• Understand their clients' goals and visions to develop a holistic financial roadmap using tools such as retirement planning, investment and insurance services, estate planning and education funding. Our mission is to educate clients on how to achieve their goals and to set them up for long term financial security, freeing them from any financial anxiety.
• Maintain autonomy and flexibility to build their own practice while receiving extensive paid training and support from our firm’s exceptional network of financial specialists, continuing education & development, and mentoring opportunities. You are in business for yourself but not by yourself.
• Develop a career with NM that not only provides outstanding self-determined income potential but will more importantly, provides the personal satisfaction of dramatically impacting the lives of others in a professional setting that emphasizes relationships and integrity.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• BA or BS degree from a four-year institution preferred
• Prior sales and/or business experience preferred and possess a history of personal and professional success.
• Prior financial services experience not needed -- extensive training platform provided.

While you help provide financial security to your clients, Northwestern Mutual is committed to offering its financial advisors a comprehensive compensation and benefits program which includes:

• Uncapped Income Potential
• Control of your own calendar and office cadence
• Fully paid sponsorship of Licensing/Credentialing
• Robust development bonuses to aid as you launch your business
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage subsidized by the Company
• Retirement Package and Pension Plan
• Group Life and Disability Income Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account/Health Savings Account