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Financial Sales Advisor (Career changers encouraged to apply)

Northwestern Mutual - Metro Detroit
Troy, MI Full Time
POSTED ON 4/12/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/12/2026

GET MORE OUT OF YOUR CAREER

Choose a career where changing someone else’s life for the better is also life-changing for you – personally, professionally and financially.


FINANCIAL PLANNING WITH NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL

Are you looking for more fulfillment from your career? Are you starting to think about a job change? Now’s the time to consider Northwestern Mutual.

Our financial professionals help clients reach their goals by developing and implementing financial plans to show clients where they are today, plan where they want to go tomorrow and provide the financial tools and support to help them get there.

Sounds exciting and scary all at the same time? Don’t worry, we don’t expect you to know everything on day one. That’s why you’ll receive in-depth training and partner with industry experts until you’re ready to do it on your own.

No previous financial experience required.


What You’ll Do:

  • Build Strong Client Relationships: Help clients achieve financial freedom with tailored strategies in life insurance, investments, retirement, education, and more.
  • New Business Growth: Prospect, network, and create a client base that grows your business.
  • Leverage top performing products to maximize client value: Deliver peace of mind through smart protection and investment strategies that help clients plan confidently for the future.
  • Continuous Learning: Access award-winning training and receive hands-on mentorship from top advisors in the industry.


Compensation:

Performance-based income consisting of commissions, bonuses, incentive programs, renewal fees, expense allowances, etc.

  • 1-4 Years: Average income $118,900. Top 25% earn $235,866. Top 10% $327,489
  • 5 Years: Average income $616

 

Perks:

  • Training Stipends: We’ll help you get licensed and cover ongoing education costs. Personalized mentoring and award-winning training programs. Support for insurance licensing, Securities Industry Essentials®, Series 6, Series 7, Series 63, and more
  • Comprehensive Benefits:
  • · Fully company-funded retirement package with TWO pension plans

 · Competitive and comprehensive medical, vision, and dental plans

 · Life Insurance and Disability Income Insurance

 · Parental benefits at every stage of family planning

  • Full Support: Backed by Northwestern Mutual, an industry leader with a proven track record of success.
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Hybrid work environment


Who We Want:

  • Entrepreneurs at Heart: Self-starters who want to build their own success.
  • People Person: Outgoing, driven, and relationship focused.
  • Goal-Getter: Ready to work hard and earn what you deserve.


About Northwestern Mutual

For over 165 years, we have helped our clients spend their lives living through comprehensive and innovative financial planning. We combine the expertise of our financial professionals with a personalized digital experience and industry-leading products to give our clients the ability to successfully navigate their financial lives.

Our tailored, integrated approach includes multiple financial strategies—insurance, investments, and annuities—built to reinforce each other, keeping our clients consistently on track to meet goal after goal. We lead with unmatched financial strength and access to the best products and services for our clients.

Our Financial Advisors are valued partners and proud business owners. As such, they are considered independent contractors3 for income tax purposes, and a statutory employee for Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) tax purposes.

As a company, we value an inclusive and belonging workplace where everyone’s unique viewpoints bring new successes. We strive to create teams that reflect our customers and communities, fostering an environment where all employees are welcomed, valued, and heard.

 


Why join Northwestern Mutual:

· Top 5 US Independent Broker-Dealers4

· Unsurpassed financial strength with total company assets of $366 billion5

· Recognized for6 Financial Soundness, Quality of Products/Services, Social Responsibility, and Quality of Management

· Fortune 500® company (June 2024)

· Forbes’ Best Employers for Diversity (2023)

· Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality- Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index (2023)

· 2024 Training APEX Award winner


Northwestern Mutual is the marketing name for The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company (NM) and its subsidiaries, including Northwestern Long Term Care Insurance Company (NLTC), Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC (NMIS) (Investment Brokerage Services), a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, and member of FINRA and SIPC, and Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company® (NMWMC) (Investment Advisory Services), a federal savings bank. NM and its subsidiaries are in Milwaukee, WI.

*Individuals are required to have a minimum of three years of service at Northwestern Mutual to qualify for the designation pre-payment and reimbursement program.

1No level of income is guaranteed. As used here, “revenue” includes exclusively First Year and Renewal Commissions, Bonuses, Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC and Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company commissions and fees, Strategic Employee Benefits Services commissions, and Expense Allowances. Data uses average revenue from 2018-2023; included revenue was positive and not equal to 0 and earned by full time, active Financial Representatives producing for the entire year each of the years data was used. First year range is $271.73 - $2,923,976.22. Source: Northwestern Mutual, 2024

2Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Center for Financial Planning, Inc. owns and licenses the certification marks CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER®, and CFP® (with plaque design) in the United States to Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc., which authorizes individuals who successfully complete the organization’s initial and ongoing certification requirements to use the certification marks.


 

3Northwestern Mutual Financial Representatives are Independent Contractors whose income is based on production. If offered to apply for approval of a contract to become a Northwestern Mutual Financial Representative, a national criminal background check is required. Should the background check results provide information which would not allow someone to work for Northwestern Mutual, approval for contract will be withdrawn.


 

4Ranking for Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC (NMIS) based on total 2023 AUM, which includes figures that combine NMIS brokerage account activity and AUM with account activity and AUM of investment advisory account of NMIS’s affiliate Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company (NMWMC), which are held through NMIS. Source: InvestmentNews, April 2024.


 

5Among U.S. life insurers. Ratings are for The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company and Northwestern Long Term Care Insurance Company, as of the most recent review and report by each rating agency. Ratings as of: 08/24 (Aaa, Moody’s Investors Service), 08/23 (A , A.M. Best Company), 07/24 (AAA, Fitch Ratings), 04/24 (AA , S&P Global Ratings). Ratings are subject to change. Total company assets as of June 30, 2024.


 

6To determine the best-regarded companies in more than 50 industries, FORTUNE asked executives, directors, and analysts to rate enterprises in their own industry on nine criteria. Details at fortune.com

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