Company Overview
We believe people are an organization’s most valuable asset, and their ideas and experiences matter. We are an agency that believes in having fun, but we also believe in hard work to get the job done!
Job Summary
The Sales Specialist role markets, prospects, and sells American Family Insurance products in all product lines. Maintains effective customer relationships, understands customers' needs, and matches them with appropriate product and service offerings. Promotes brand awareness through participation in agency and community events
. We are looking for someone that has the desire to grow and develop into their own boss and open their own agency.
Responsibilities

• Helps the Agency grow by using consultative selling techniques to sell insurance products to new customers
• Proactively cross-sells and or coordinates with agency team members to provide additional coverage to existing customers
• Prospects for new business through leads, telephone calls, networking events, trade shows, and personal contacts (Includes leads through COI, social media, B2B and B2C networks, and sales lead groups)
• Secures new business through individual effort and established lead methods
• Prepares quotations and applications and delivers effective presentations in order to close sales

Qualifications

• Ability to work independently to plan, set priorities and organize work
• Sales experience or the right work ethic to learn sales
• Over the phone skills and the ability to interact well with others
• Works well with people of all types
• Active involvement in the local community
• Will need to get licensed in life, casualty, property insurance
• Experience with PC software applications (Microsoft Office Suites, Internet Explorer, etc.)
• Experience using a wide range of digital devices such as smartphones, tablets, and laptop computers
• Experience with social media platforms, including, but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, Instagram, Google , LinkedIn, etc.

This position is an Agency Team Member working for the Agency Owner and is not an employee of American Family Insurance.