Financial Advisor / Sales Consulting (training provided)

Company

Northwestern Mutual’s unique value is its ability to utilize its unshakeable 165-year financial foundation to deliver an integrated architectural blueprint that unifies investments, insurance, and estate planning, eliminating financial fragmentation to maximize tax-efficiency and seamlessly secure multi-generational wealth.

• Financial Strength: Holds the highest available financial strength ratings (AAA, A , Aaa, AA ) awarded to any U.S. life insurer by all four major rating agencies.
• Industry-Leading Dividends: Declared a record-breaking, expected $9.2 billion dividend payout for 2026—the largest in the industry.
• Client Loyalty: Maintains a policyowner retention rate of more than 97% year over year.
• Scale and Stability: Manages nearly $700 billion in total assets and holds a record $40 billion surplus.
• #1 in Protection: Ranks as America’s top direct provider of individual life insurance with $2.4 trillion of protection in force.

Career

As a financial advisor, your role is to help clients make sense of this complicated financial world so that they can achieve their important financial goals now and in the future. We often partner with doctors, attorneys, business owners, and high achievers to help them develop sound financial strategies.

94% of our advisors are career-changers, and our award-winning training and development program is designed to equip you with the skills, tools, and knowledge to quickly make an impact on the clients you serve.

Our firm has been recognized year over year as having some of the top financial security professionals in the country. We can also be seen in publications such as USA Today, Reuters Money, and Forbes promoting the power of financial planning. None of this would be possible without our hardworking team, amazing clients, and Northwestern Mutual.

Compensation

Clients are with you on average for 42 years and will buy from you 20 times.

There are 16 residual income streams you build being a business owner, with most of them being residual and recurring. Your insurance and investment book of business are 7-figure assets in retirement, and you will also have 2 pensions – fully funded by the company.

Our firm provides an additional $41,000 bonus structure as an investment into the advisors in their first year – on top of the enhanced commission.

Year 1: $75,000 – $200,000

Year 3: $274,000-$427,000

Year 5: $424,000-$750,000

THE PROBLEM: The average US personal savings rate is 3.8%. The median savings account balance in the US is $8,000. The average 401k balance in the US is $134,128. The number one cause of bankruptcy in the US is healthcare costs. Simultaneously, we are in the midst of the greatest wealth transfer in history; with nearly half of all financial advisors retiring in the next ten years. The greatest demand meets the shortest supply.

THE SOLUTION: KEEP MORE OF WHAT YOU EARN, DO MORE OF WHAT YOU LOVE.

Investments, insurance, estate planning, college funding. AAA rated fortune 100 company.

Our mission is to be the most trusted multi-generational financial services firm in the nation. Helping families and businesses protect, grow, and optimize financial security for generations to come.

Candidate Traits (Highest Performing Backgrounds)

Business Development & Sales Executives

Military Veterans

Women Leaders

Mission-Driven Parents

President’s Club Parents – families who’ve hit a ceiling on income and have to sacrifice family for a higher ceiling.

As a financial advisor, you will build a book of business specializing in solving the problems of your specific target market. The goal of any advisor is to help their clients reach financial independence. Our approach is design to build financial strategies that protect, grow, and optimize wealth to help clients reach their goals and build legacies in the most effective and tax efficient way.

The primary role of a financial advisor is to understand the facts of their clients’ situations, gain clarity around their goals, and give every dollar a job. Then, co-author a comprehensive strategy to achieve what’s most important – today through retirement. uncover financial solutions that put them on a path to achieve their financial objectives. Our Advisors are seasoned professionals who come from varying backgrounds and experiences to build rewarding practices and relationships with our clients.

With Northwestern Mutual, you will be in the driver’s seat. You will empower people to plan their financial future while creating unlimited income potential for yourself. You’ll own your own business within a successful framework of support including our network of specialist, training programs, development coaches and mentoring opportunities. We seek candidates with a proven track record of winning because their existing expertise directly translates into high-leverage functions within the advisor role, accelerated by our training and platform.