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Commercial Sales Specialist
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Join the nation's #1 insurance company as a Commercial Sales Specialist (CSS). CSS members provide insurance and financial services to small business owners and entrepreneurs. Bi-lingual candidates highly preferred (Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Amharic, Tigrinya, & Punjabi). Licensed candidates are favorable but no direct previous experience required. Compensation is base + monthly bonus. Must be comfortable interacting with business owners in a professional manner. Strong problem solving skills, comfortable working with numbers, and a general understanding of financial topics that are important to small business owners is a must.
Responsibilities include:
- Maintain Property/Casualty & Life licenses to market company products
- Identify strike zone by working with agent and commercial underwriter
- Contacting and reaching out to prospects (leads are provided by agency but there is also an expectation that CSS members develop their own lead resources)
- Develop action plans to reach goals
- Manage leads from the first point of contact
- Close business and identify roadmap of where client needs to go next
- Set appointment for annual reviews
- Maintain relationships developed by agent with tax professionals
- Assist agent in achieving $5 million in new mutual fund assets