Now Hiring - Ameriprise - Financial Services Regional Annuity Sales Consultant in Minneapolis, MN

Key Responsibilities :

Provide inbound phone queue sales support, place outbound telephone calls, and return advisor emails to enhance annuity sales in an assigned region.
Deliver day-to-day case consultation to advisors tailoring annuity recommendations to support client needs. Provide approved sales materials and illustrations as needed.
Partner with advisors to facilitate product training, order entry, licensing, compliance, and new business inquiries. Serve as the liaison between advisors, carriers, and various departments on intensified issues.
Acquire deep annuity product knowledge across multiple carriers and product types (primarily variable, fixed indexed, fixed, and structured annuities).
Develop broad expertise of LTC (Long-Term Care) and insurance offerings to optimally guide advisors to appropriate BGA (Brokerage General Agency), carrier or resources.
Build and maintain effective relationships with multiple departments, annuity carriers and key resources.
Present solutions, tools, and resources via Teams/web conferencing.
Leverage Salesforce as a territory management tool to track activity and manage pipelines.

Required Qualifications :

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in a related field
5+ years of relevant experience in the financial services industry
Active Series 6 or Series 7
Active State securities registration (Series 63 or 66)
Active Life and Variable Contracts insurance licenses or ability to obtain within 120 days.
Ability to work independently, collaborate with teammates and share standard methodologies.
Ability to influence others through consultative/solutions-based selling.
Effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
Ability to balance multiple assignments and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications :

Previous experience as an annuity wholesaler or sales consultant

About Our Company
We’re a diversified financial services leader with more than $1 trillion in assets under management and administration. Our team of 20,000 people in more than 20 countries advise, manage and protect the assets and income of more than 2 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a long-standing leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses - Ameriprise Financial Services, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and RiverSource Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.