Our client is hiring for a Territory Sales Manager, who will be esponsible for new business production, including recruitment, management, training and development at offices within an assigned territory.
Job Description
Key job responsibilities include:
- Developing and implementing individual offices’ business plans
- Deploying sales and incentive programs to drive incremental new business production
- Training new and existing agents on systems, products, and sales
- Recruiting new partners
- Providing feedback to management team
- Any additional tasks as needed designed to meet and exceed new business production targets
The Territory Sales Manager will be required to:
Meet and maintain management’s defined goals
- Facilitate corrective action in various areas, such as system, product knowledge, prospecting, and sales skills
- Oversee management’s/business plans for the development of sales opportunities
- Interpret reports and use as performance motivators
- Prospect and develop new sales opportunities
- Communicate and translate corporate goals into individual plans
- Oversee the accurate assessment of insurance requirements consistent with company standards
- Safely operate a motor vehicle in order to travel to various locations
- Represent the company professionally and and positively
- Be able and willing to work in any assigned location throughout the state and to work irregular hours
- Competitive compensation and benefits, including a base salary and performance-based incentives
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- Pension, 401(k), generous time off and more
Qualifications
Requirements:
- Sales management and/or successful direct sales experience in an insurance sales environment : 3 years
- Prior experience working with independent agencies as an insurance company sales representative
- Ability to travel 75 percent of the week and visit offices throughout the assigned territory
- Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, insurance or a related field
- Excellent organizational, planning, time management and administrative skills demonstrated through recent (3-5 years) sales management and/or successful direct sales experience in an insurance sales environment
- Experience developing markets, including analyzing territories and/or sales markets and developing strategic business plans to increase new business sales
- Training experience including coaching, mentoring, challenging and enabling agency producers and staff to meet objectives and goals.
- Strong communication skills to enable sharing of information with stakeholders in a clear and understandable manner.
- Possession of a valid state driver’s license.