Sales Executive - Group Benefits - Large Market

Nationwide; Marlborough (MA); Hybrid; USD 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Paid time off

9 paid holidays

401(k) with company match

Pension plan

Business casual attire

Job summary

Nationwide is seeking a Hybrid Wholesaler for Group Benefits Large Market in Marlborough, MA. You will recruit, train and manage broker partners to drive growth, service and retention of large group health cases in your territory.

The role emphasizes relationship-building, enrollment support, and collaboration with home office teams to ensure profitable growth and achievement of sales objectives. Strong leadership and sales skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong sales communication and relationship-building skills required.
• Experience in recruitment and management of insurance sales force.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and related tools.
• Ability to adapt sales strategies to broker partners and markets.

Responsibilities

• Recruit new producers and train them to achieve sales targets.
• Provide enrollment support for new producers’ accounts.
• Maintain positive relationships with sales support, underwriting, policyholder services, billing, compliance and field management.
• Recruit, train, motivate and develop producers in the region.
• Foster good collaboration between producers and home office departments.
• Analyze markets and formulate recruiting programs to secure productive producers.
• Help producers grow existing books of business and develop new opportunities.
• Implement procedures to improve persistency of business in the area.

Skills

Sales communication

Relationship building

MS Office

Leadership

Recruitment

Sales management

Education

CEBS/CLU/ChFC certifications

Job description

Are you passionate about being part of a team at a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales that delivers extraordinary care to help individuals and businesses prepare for and protect their future? If so, then Nationwide Financial could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers and partners 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 a hybrid in-office schedule out of our Marlborough, MA location with four days a week in the office and one day from home.

This is a G.99 band role.

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 large cases in an assigned market within the territory

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.

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

• 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

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.

NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:

We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Nationwide does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Nationwide employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Nationwide Client Services Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.

Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.

The national salary range for Hybrid Wholesaler - Group Benefits Large Market : $50,000-$80,168.40

The expected starting salary range for Hybrid Wholesaler - Group Benefits Large Market : $50,000-$50,000