Manager, Sales Quality

Americo Financial Life and Annuity; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with employer match

Paid time off

Health insurance

Wellness program

Job summary

Americo Financial Life and Annuity in Kansas City, MO is seeking a Manager, Sales Quality to strengthen how producers are monitored and trained. The role focuses on improving quality across the distribution channel and working with Compliance to ensure suitability and regulatory alignment.

You will design training content, lead quality initiatives, and partner with Distribution on persistency and placement to drive better outcomes for life insurance and annuity products.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in insurance sales, distribution, sales training, or a sales quality or compliance-adjacent function.
• Strong understanding of insurance processes and how sales practices affect underwriting, policy issue, and in-force servicing.
• Demonstrated ability to design and deliver training to agents and producers, in person and virtually.

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring and reporting: Build and maintain reporting on sales quality indicators using data systems to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Quality standards and review protocols: Define practical sales-quality criteria and review protocols for compliant, customer-centered selling.
• Root-cause and corrective action: Investigate quality issues to identify underlying causes and recommend durable corrective actions.
• Sales training strategy: Develop and execute the strategy to improve agent training effectiveness across the distribution channel.
• Training content and cadence: Create scripts and materials for sales training and refresh materials.

Skills

Sales experience

Quality monitoring

Data reporting

Training design

Regulatory knowledge

Education

Four-year college degree

Tools

Reporting tools

Job description

Americo is hiring a full time Manager, Sales Quality to join our expanding team!

The hours for this position are Monday-Friday, 8:00AM-5:00PM, onsite, at our downtown Kansas City, MO location.

Overview

The Sales and Marketing department is is responsible for driving growth through strong partnerships, product education, and market engagement across distribution channels.

The purpose of this role is to improve the quality of Americo's life insurance and annuity sales by strengthening how producers are monitored, incentivized, and trained. This role works with Compliance to keep producer behavior aligned with suitability and regulatory expectations - translating quality insights into practical improvements across the distribution channel. This role also owns sales training strategy and content, and partners with Distribution on persistency and placement.

Key Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring and reporting: Build and maintain reporting on sales quality indicators (e.g., persistency, placement, not-taken, and suitability signals) using Americo's data systems to identify trends, emerging risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Quality standards and review protocols: Define practical sales-quality criteria and review protocols so expectations for compliant, customer-centered selling are clear, measurable, and consistently applied.
• Root-cause and corrective action: Investigate recurring or high-impact quality issues to identify underlying causes and recommend durable corrective actions rather than one-off fixes.
• Sales training strategy: Develop and execute the strategy to improve agent and producer training effectiveness across the distribution channel, prioritizing the behaviors that most affect sales quality, persistency, and compliant selling.
• Training content and cadence: Create scripts, content, and a delivery cadence for sales training and refresh materials as products, suitability rules, and market conditions change.
• Persistency and placement action plans: Partner with Distribution to diagnose persistency and placement issues in the book of business and build targeted action plans that address root causes at the IMO and producer level.
• Conservation and special projects: Lead special projects for the Distribution team, including annuity and life conservation efforts that protect in-force business and reduce avoidable surrender and lapse.
• Producer behavior and compliance coordination: Coordinate with Compliance to review agent behavior and outcomes, surface conduct or suitability concerns, and fold findings back into training and coaching.

Experience And Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in insurance sales, distribution, sales training, or a sales quality or compliance-adjacent function.
• Strong understanding of insurance processes and how sales practices affect underwriting, policy issue, and in-force servicing.
• Demonstrated ability to design and deliver training to agents and producers, in person and virtually.
• Working proficiency with data systems and reporting tools used to manage and present sales quality information.
• Four-year college degree or equivalent experience.

Decision Making Authority

• Decides training content, cadence, and delivery methods, and independently prioritizes which quality issues to address.
• Determines persistency and placement action plans with Distribution within established guidelines.
• Escalates conduct, suitability, or regulatory concerns to Compliance and the Chief Distribution Officer.
• Escalates changes affecting product positioning, commission structures, or enterprise policy to leadership.

Americo Values in Practice

• Strive for Excellence and Quality: Holds agent training and sales practices to a high standard and continuously raises the bar on what compliant, customer-centered selling looks like.
• Promote Openness and Forthrightness: Surfaces quality and conduct concerns clearly and early, giving Distribution, Compliance, and leadership an honest picture of the book.
• Promote Creativity, Innovation, and Continuous Improvement: Refreshes training approaches and quality methods as products, regulations, and market conditions evolve.

Leveling Signals

• Connects training and quality interventions to measurable movement in persistency, placement, and suitability outcomes - not just activity completed.
• Is sought out by Distribution and Compliance as the person who can translate a quality problem into a practical plan.
• Balances the training, quality, and conservation dimensions of the role without letting any one crowd out the others.

About Us

Americo: We're in this for life!

The roots of the Americo family of companies date back more than 100 years. Americo is a life insurance and annuity company providing innovative products to our customers. At Americo, it's the people who make things work, so we hope you join us!

Compensation

What You'll Love About Working at Americo:

Our competitive pay and robust bonus program, offered to all associates, will make you feel valued.

Learning and development

We prepare you for success with a comprehensive, paid training program. Additionally, our Talent Development team creates various development opportunities for associates at every stage of their careers.

Work-life balance

We value work-life balance with our generous paid time off; you begin accruing hours every month, and they increase with tenure. All new hires earn over three weeks of paid time off annually, plus 11 paid company holidays! We also support new parents with a maternity and parental leave program, along with paid STD and LTD.

Health and well-being

We are committed to your health and are pleased to offer flexible benefits designed to support you and your family, with high quality coverage and meaningful company contributions.

Benefits include PPO and HDHP medical plan options with HSA and FSA eligibility, along with dental and vision coverage. Additionally, we provide company paid life insurance, disability coverage, a confidential EAP, a wellness program, comprehensive health resources, corporate fitness discounts, and a 401(k) plan with employer matching.

Future planning

Americo offers a 401(k) with a company match. We also have tuition reimbursement programs to further your education.

Giving back

We support several local organizations, such as Ronald McDonald House, Hope Lodge, the American Red Cross, Harvesters, and many more. Our associates volunteer their time and donate money alongside the company to make a difference in our community.

The fun stuff

Americo participates in the Kansas City Corporate Challenge, a great way to connect with coworkers. Additionally, we host events like a Royals Party at the K, a legendary Holiday Party, and in-office events with local vendors to allow associates to step away from work and enjoy each other's company.

Bustling environment

Our newly renovated offices are conveniently located in downtown Kansas City, within walking distance of your favorite restaurants and attractions. Plus, you'll receive complimentary paid parking near our Americo offices - downtown parking is a premium, but we've got you covered.