Remote Inside Sales Pro – Health Plans & Impact

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas; Topeka (KS); Hybrid; USD 30,000 - 42,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/Vision/Dental insurance

6 weeks paid parental leave

Fertility/Adoption assistance

2 weeks paid caregiver leave

401(k) plan matching up to 5%

Tuition reimbursement

Health & fitness benefits

Job summary

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas is seeking an Inside Sales Advisor in Kansas to help individuals and families find the health coverage that fits their needs. You will handle a mix of inbound/outbound calls, enroll members in individual and Medicare plans, and support retention by offering plan options.

This 32-hours-per-week role offers a flexible schedule including remote, hybrid or onsite work, with rotating evenings, weekends and holidays as required.

Qualifications

• Strong communication, professionalism and human relations skills required.

Responsibilities

• Complete required training and continuing education.
• Use company sales models to convert leads to sales by best fitting prospects with products through a call center with both inbound and outbound structure.
• Sell under and over age 65 products such as Medicare Supplement, Medicare Advantage and Part D.
• Sell direct enrolled individual health insurance products.
• Upsell dental, life, cancer, hospital indemnity, disability, and travel policies.
• Overcome sales objections and position products against competition while balancing intensity and integrity.
• Successfully execute cold calls for sales leads with the goal of conversion to enrollment.
• Required to meet or exceed specific attainable sales goals monthly and annually.
• Must meet or exceed department standards related to productivity measured through key performance indicators including outbound calls, call scoring and close ratio.
• Proactively conserves policies in danger of cancellation.
• Responsible for planning and completing daily activities associated with the sales process.
• Accurately complete various detailed reports at prescribed intervals such as tracking production and competitive environment.
• Responsible for communicating legislation at both federal and state levels, underwriting guidelines and rating practices that would impact either Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas or our clients.
• Responsible for understanding benefits, deductibles, coinsurance, waiting periods, product limitations and exclusions for under and over age 65 products. Responsible for understanding, non-group and group lines of business and OBRA, COBRA AND MSP COBRA regulations.
• Required to use the telephone 90% of the day and required to sit 90% of the day. In addition, required to key data for 50% of the day while managing multiple monitor screens.
• Responsible for maintaining working knowledge of LTS/METS to ESM policies and procedures while minimizing MTM errors to meet or exceed company MTM standards, working in a timely manner.
• Must sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Sales ability

Professionalism

Job description

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas is seeking an Inside Sales Advisor in Kansas to help individuals and families find the health coverage that fits their needs. You will handle a mix of inbound/outbound calls, enroll members in individual and Medicare plans, and support retention by offering plan options.

This 32-hours-per-week role offers a flexible schedule including remote, hybrid or onsite work, with rotating evenings, weekends and holidays as required.