Now Hiring - FBL Financial - Life Sales Consultant in West Des Moines, IA

Life Sales Consultant

Are you a Sales minded individual with experience in life, annuity, and investment sales? Do you have a passion for collaborating with field employees to proactively drive sales? If so, Farm Bureau Financial Services just might have the right opportunity for you!

Who We Are: At Farm Bureau Financial Services, we make insurance simple so our client/members can feel confident knowing their family, home, cars, and other property are protected. We value a culture where integrity, teamwork, passion, service, leadership, and accountability are at the heart of every decision we make and every action we take. We're proud of our more than 80-year commitment to protecting the livelihoods and futures of our client/members and creating an atmosphere where our employees thrive.

What You'll Do:

As part of our internal sales support team, you will be looked upon as a valuable sales resource for our agents as they promote insurance and investment products to our client members. Helping our agents meet and exceed their sales goals is your #1 priority. The ideal candidate, must be able to do the following:

• Have a high level of life and annuity product knowledge and investment industry knowledge.
• Be able to coach and train agents by phone in all aspects of the life insurance and investment sales process.
• Be able to provide agents with the following kinds of sales support:

o Uncover new sales opportunities.

o Cross sell clients from one product line to another.

o Analyze client data to recommend the best life and annuity product mix to help the client meet their goals.

o Be familiar with different ways to illustrate life and annuity products for optimal results.

o Place rated life insurance cases.

o Service existing policies.

o Maximize an agent's participation in current sales contests and promotions.

• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills in order to increase agent product knowledge and understanding of our financial products.
• Be able to create sales training presentation in PowerPoint and be able deliver those presentations in person or on webinars.

What It Takes to Join Our Team:

• College degree or equivalent plus 5 years of sales related experience.
• Series 6/7 and 63/66 and Life license preferred. If not currently life licensed or registered, the applicant would be expected to pass their life insurance license within 90 days and Series 6, 63, and 26 within the first year.
• Industry designations such as CLU, ChFC, and CFP are preferred.
• P/C license or experience would be a plus.
• Must be comfortable with using technology: Microsoft office products, E-Mail, CRM systems, insurance product illustration software, financial planning software, etc.
• Excellent people skills with the ability to work well with the field force and home office personnel.
• Ability to work from our office in West Des Moines, Iowa.

What We Offer You: When you're on our team, you get more than a great paycheck. You'll hear about career development and educational opportunities. We offer an enhanced 401K with a match, low-cost health, dental, and vision benefits, and life and disability insurance options. We also offer paid time off, including holidays and volunteer time, and teams who know how to have fun. Add to that an onsite wellness facility with fitness classes and programs, a daycare center, a cafeteria, and for many positions, even consideration for a hybrid work arrangement. Farm Bureau....where the grass really IS greener!

Work Authorization/Sponsorship: At this time, we are not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship now or in the future, such as additional or permanent work authorization. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis. We are not able to sponsor now or in the future, or take over sponsorship of, an employment visa or work authorization for this role. For example, we are not considering candidates with OPT status.