2+ years of sales experience in an insurance brokerage with a proven track record
College degree preferred
Must hold a Life and Health insurance license
Personable, motivated, and goal-oriented
Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills
Strong organizational skills and customer focus
Understanding of Employee Benefits
Responsibilities
Achieve annualized new business sales goals of $80K
Meet new business activity and quality appointment goals
Research prospects and develop customized messages
Explain USI's competitive advantages to clients
Develop sales plans and overcome specific obstacles
Build client and prospect pipelines with cross-selling strategies
Drive innovation for clients using technical insurance knowledge
Benefits
Comprehensive health, welfare, and financial benefits
Generous paid family leave and holiday time
Award-winning wellness program
Scholarship opportunities for associates' children
Recognition programs for top sales associates
Commitment to community engagement and sustainability
Focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
Full Job Description
Description and Requirements
General Description: Outside Employee Benefits sales position. Responsible for driving new business sales revenue growth for small business clients. Cross-sell referrals from other business units and establish pipeline of clients with 10-50 employee lives.
Responsibilities: • Achieve annualized new business sales goals of $80K in our target market of companies with 10-50 employee lives. • Meet new business activity and quality appointment goals. • Use USI resources to research prospects and develop customized messaging for prospects. • Understand and explain USI's competitive differentiation to clients and prospects. • Develop sales business plan and use effective prospecting strategies. Overcome sales obstacles on a prospect-specific basis. • Build client and prospect pipeline. Develop cross-selling strategies for existing clients. • Innovate for clients using market knowledge and advanced understanding of technical insurance issues. • Use USI's contact management and sales automation tool to support sales processes. Input timely and accurate information to facilitate sales and revenue projections. • Participate in USI's industry training and sales support programs. • Positively represent USI in meetings, seminars, trade shows, and networking events. • Demonstrate technical knowledge necessary to communicate our solutions effectively to a non-insurance buyer. • Successfully develop and deploy sales and marketing strategies along with periodic communications to optimize USI's position in the marketplace. • Work collaboratively with the account management team and national/regional resources to maximize results.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: • 2+ years of sales experience in an insurance brokerage with proven track record of sales success. • College degree preferred. • Must hold a Life and Health insurance license. • Personable, highly motivated, and goal oriented. Driven to achieve individual sales goals. • Superior communication, negotiation, and presentation skills. • Excellent organizational and follow-up skills. • Strong and/or developing understanding of Employee Benefits. • Consultative, positive, and resourceful approach to dealing with prospects, clients, and associates. • Excellent listening skills with strong customer focus. • Able to work in a fast-paced, team environment with minimal instruction. • Ability to deal with senior level management and have a top-level executive presence.
USI is committed to providing a full-suite of competitive benefits for our growing population and its diverse needs. We offer a wide range of health, welfare and financial benefits including medical, wellness, dental and vision, 401(k), flexible spending and health savings accounts, short and long-term disability, life insurance and other unique employer-sponsored and voluntary programs. USI also offers a generous paid family leave benefit as well as paid holiday time.
$80,000-$95,000
About USI Holdings Corporation
USI is a leading insurance brokerage and consulting firm, delivering property and casualty, employee benefits, personal risk, program and retirement solutions throughout the United States. Headquartered in Valhalla, New York, USI has over 200 offices across the United States. USI combines industry-leading national capabilities delivered through longstanding, passionate and committed local service teams. USI stands for Understand, Service and Innovate. At USI, we work to Understand the specific needs of our clients, to provide an unparalleled local Service experience, and to Innovate with cutting-edge solutions so our clients can continue to invest and grow.