Group Sales Rep

Are you a strong sales individual in the Madison, WI area looking to expand your sales career?

At Ameritas, our mission is Fulfilling Life. We do that in many ways, but especially by helping people invest in themselves by offering trusted financial products and advice. Because we believe everyone should be happy, healthy, and financially secure, we work hard to provide trusted financial products and valued guidance, including individual life and disability insurance, employee benefits, retirement planning, investments, and wealth management services.

Ameritas is seeking a Group Sales Representative to join a dynamic and collaborative team.  In this role, you will build and maintain strong business relationships with brokers, agents and other insurance professionals to meet or exceed established sales goals, quotas, targets or objectives within your assigned territory.  You will focus on selling Dental, Vision and Hearing employee benefit products.

What you do

• Develop and maintain multiple business relationships to meet or exceed established sales goals, quotas, or objectives within your assigned territory.
• Develop a clear understanding of Ameritas business, our diverse Group products, the complex business relationships within the brokerage community and the clients we service.
• Support new sales initiatives to increase sales of existing products and/or develop sales of new products.
• Collaborates with internal stakeholders to ensure the proper processing of all sold products from time of sale to issuance.
• Identify and procure new customer sales opportunities in partnership with brokers in territory
• Manage the inforce block of business to build new/integrated sales opportunities with existing clients
• Build, maintain and enhance strong producer relationships through superior product and services knowledge, territory management practices, and excellent customer service.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Ability to learn the insurance/financial services industry, including products and marketing practices
• Ability to demonstrate a leadership presence with internal and external partners with strong ability to create relationships and be a team player
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation and collaboration skills.
• Highly energized, motivated, results oriented self-starter with problem-solving skills.
• Excellent time management, organization, and project management abilities
• Ability to work with a team to achieve optimal results.

What we offer

• Our company motto is “Fulfilling Life” and we take that job seriously, with a heavy commitment to volunteering and community support, employee well-being, and providing quality products and services that help our customers create a brighter future.
• Being a mutual-based organization, the return on our investment goes back into the company, to benefit our members/customers.
• We’re committed to professional development, opportunity, inclusion and diversity. Team building and collaboration are also priorities.
• A total rewards package with all the comprehensive health and welfare benefits you’d expect, including competitive pay and incentives, 401(k), flexible work schedules and time off to care for yourself and others.
• Additional popular benefits, including tuition reimbursement, and student loan repayment, an incentivized well-being program, adoption assistance, paid time off for volunteering, training and career development opportunities.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Ameritas has a reputation as a company that cares, and because everyone should feel safe bringing their authentic, whole self to work, we’re committed to an inclusive culture and diverse workplace, enriched by our individual differences. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer that hires based on qualifications, positive attitude and exemplary work ethic, regardless of sex, race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.