Director, Insurance Sales, WFG

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Position Title: Director, Insurance Sales, WFG

Reports To: Regional Vice PresidentIndividual Sales

Department: Individual Sales

Term: Permanent Full-Time

Location: Vancouver

Base Salary: $90,000.00

Work Arrangements: You will work from your home office 100% of the time. You may be required to be in-person at our office in Waterloo, ON or another assigned location within the Waterloo Region, on an as needed basis. Sales related roles may be required to travel based on the assignment.

The Opportunity: The Director, Insurance Sales, WFGis a critical sales role within our Individual Life and Health Insurance division. In this role you will be responsible for business development and account management exclusively of WFG channel of advisors. This will include providing case consultation, sales, product and marketing support to drive sales for the life and health insurance division of Equitable.

What you will be doing:

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with insurance focused advisors.
• Meet or exceed sales targets and the number of productive advisor relationships for the Individual Insurance Product Line (Universal Life, Whole Life, Term and CI)
• Build relationships with producers through 1 on 1 meetings, seminars and case consultation
• Deliver presentations to small and large groups of Advisors and distributors
  
  

What you will bring:

• Post-secondary education and/or applicable professional designation (i.e. CFP, CLU, CHFC, TEP)
• Minimum 5 years of financial industry experience, with experience in marketing to Independent Advisors in a life insurance environment
• Previous sales and sales management experience required
• Valid driver’s license and well-maintained vehicle required
• Exceptional negotiation skills
• Proficiency using various office-based software, including PowerPoint, Outlook, Word and Excel
• Superior time management and organizational skills
• Highly developed interpersonal, analytical and presentation (written and oral) skills
• Ability to travel, approximately 20% of the role, including Internationally
• Ability to work varying hours, including evenings and weekends
  
  

What’s in it for you:

• A high-performance and rewarding culture and experience
• Annual vacation allowance, and company-paid benefits program
• Car allowance and work travel expense program
• Immediate enrollment into the company’s pension program with employer matching
• Discounts on company products and service and access to exclusive employee perks
• Regular EQ Together events focused on company togetherness and collaboration
  
  

As part of the recruitment/offer process you will be required to:

• Provide two professional references (minimum one supervisor and above)
  
  

This role is open due to an existing vacancy.

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