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This RVP role will cover the territory of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Colorado for our World Financial Group (WFG) clients. It is strongly preferred that the candidate live in the greater Seattle metropolitan area.
This is an H.99 band role.
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Job Description Summary
Do you enjoy connecting with people to promote solutions that can improve the financial wellbeing of customers? If you can form lasting relationships, solve challenges with outstanding service and develop and share expertise about financial products and services, we want to know more about you!Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
Manages key distribution partner relationships across assigned geographic territory.
Provides support and expertise to key distribution partners within assigned, geographic territory including face-to-face meetings, webinars, virtual meetings, and social media posts.
Utilizes a consultative approach to help key distribution partners identify customer needs and lead to a product recommendation. Consults with advisors by analyzing financial services products to determine the best solutions for their business and clients.
Regularly assess key partners in order to understand the needs and expectations of their business
Advocates on behalf of key distribution partners to ensure their needs, goals, opportunities, and concerns are understood within Nationwide. Evaluates and recommends solutions to marketing strategy and product questions.
Employ a business-plan approach to establish a rotation of sales activity and touch-points for the targeted group of distribution partners to acquire, grow and sustain the viability of those business relationships while achieving or exceeding territory production goals for life insurance products.
Ability to analyze and manipulate data from many resources, and use tools for a focused, multiple touch-point process, which will include a combination of face-to-face meetings, social media, digital marketing, telephone calls, emails, virtual meetings, webinars, etc.
Actively manages pending opportunities, trials and formal applications within assigned territory.
Conducts training on product, life insurance sales concepts, illustration software, underwriting, practice management topics, licensing, procedures, processes and services provided by Nationwide.
Provides sales management with weekly updates on activity.
Provides input on products, solutions and services to serve distribution partner and customer needs.
Completes and documents territory activities to assure they are meeting overall company objectives.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Reporting Relationships: Reports to Sales Manager.
Typical Skills and Experiences:
Education: Undergraduate studies in business, finance, communications or liberal arts preferred.
License/Certification/Designation: FINRA Series 6 or 7, Series 63, State Life / Annuity Insurance Agent licenses required. CLU, ChFC, FLMI, CFP, ASPPA, CLTC designations preferred. Associates must acquire the required Federal and/or state licenses/registrations within the time period designated by the business unit. Additional licenses/registrations may be required when new products and services are implemented. If an associate is unable to acquire required licenses/registrations within the designated time period, the associate will be ineligible to continue in the position.
Experience: Between one and three years of internal wholesaling experience, as well as one to three years of external wholesaling experience of financial service products
Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: College-level mathematics, finance, statistics, economics, economics and investment management theories/practices. Financial service products, life insurance, long term care insurance, contracts, securities trading and regulation, and competitor products, policies, practices and procedures in customer service and investment product processing. Sophisticated interpersonal and written skills to effectively communicate and influence company officers, top brokers, home office and outside business partners. Excellent group presentation skills for audiences of company owners, officers, principals, executive boards, and financial intermediaries of up to 200 people. Ability to effectively teach state continuing education courses to industry professionals. Basic Microsoft office usage skills including a solid understanding of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Lotus Notes, Salesforce CRM. Excellent time management and organizational skills required to lead statewide sales activities and multiple sales/distribution relationships.
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 HR Business Partner.
Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values .
Job Conditions:
Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt).
Working Conditions: Lives in assigned, geographical territory. Work from home sales office environment. Requires frequent field travel and may require overnight travel. Must have a valid driver’s license with satisfactory driving record in accordance with Nationwide standards.
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.
Credit/Background Check: Due to the fiduciary account abilities within this job, a valid credit check and/or background check will be required as part of the selection process.
Benefits
We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: 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. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.
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 Regional Wholesaler - Life : $75,000-$80,168.40The expected starting salary range for Regional Wholesaler - Life : $75,000-$75,000
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