Insurance Sales Manager

**Are you a highly motivated and determined Sales Manager? Then this is your opportunity to join our growing sales team in our Financial Sales office, located in Toronto**

Neilson Financial Services are looking for a strong Sales Manager to join our team and lead a team of fantastic Sales Agents selling life insurance products via outbound and inbound calls.

**Who we are?**

An internationally tried and tested model of Life Insurance Sales with an ambition to revolutionize Canada’s Customer experience with easy-access, straight forward product offerings via TV and Digital Marketing.

Neilson Financial Services is a multi-national Life Insurance intermediary, specializing in product development and customer experience, making the purchase of Life Insurance as simple as our customers demand it to be.

Our Neilson Values of Results Driven, Customer Focused and Team Spirited are embedded in the foundations of our culture and are part of the common integrity found in every Neilson’er.

**What’s in it for you?**
- **A competitive salary of $62,500 per year plus a very generous uncapped commission**:

- **Amazing incentives & rewards**:

- **A sales environment with a real buzz, where we celebrate every success**:

- **Good central location
- just 5 minutes away from Union Station**:

- **A fast paced and diverse management and leadership role**:

- **A pulsing sales environment where achievement is recognized business wide and in real-time**:

- **Industry leading Sales CRM with automated pipeline and dialing capabilities supports a better use of your time in coaching and supporting your team**:

- **Exciting Reward and Recognition opportunities with monthly incentives for sales performance**:

- **Quarterly Awards Events celebrating our collective and individual achievements across all business units**

**What you will be doing everyday as Sales Manager?**
- To drive optimal sales performance by steering the right atmosphere, expert sales practice and performance management of Sales Advisors. ~10-12 Sales Advisors to a team
- Conduct meaningful 1-2-1 sessions with Agents; include coaching and development plans and work with individuals to improve performance.
- Create a high energy environment to drive optimum results by engaging the team, using team meetings, Buzz sessions and incentives.
- Completion and updating of weekly and monthly trackers, dashboards, reporting on business unit performance; taking accountability for team results.
- Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of products and processes as well as insurance industry best practices and competitor activity.
- Uphold a positive, supportive and engaging leadership style when communicating and rolling out changes/updates or driving new initiatives.
- Contribute positively to the team and success of the company.
- Live and breathe our core values, **Customer Focused, Results Driven & Team Spirited**

**The type of person we are looking for**
- Experience at a contact centre or inside sales contact centre
- Management experience in Insurance
- A results driven individual with integrity and genuine customer empathy at the heart of their work ethic
- A natural leader who can hold influence over a team of driven sales people
- Someone with a background in, and hands on approach to, sales coaching
- Outstanding communicators that can make someone’s day within minutes of engaging in conversation
- An ambitious growth mindset that is always looking for new ways to improve and develop
- Open minded thinkers that can embrace a new way of working as we challenge the norm of complex product offerings in the market
- Able to commit to 40 hours per over 5 days per week Monday to Sunday (opening hours 9am to 8pm) - Currently **Monday to Friday only, **but could change in the future due to business needs
- Preferred to have an active Life License, LLQP qualified

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: From $62,500.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- RRSP match
- Vision care

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Commission pay

Application question(s):

- How many years of experience do you have managing/leading a sales team?
- Are you legally eligible to work in Canada?
- What is you salary expectation?
- How many years of call centre/sales experience do you have?

**Education**:

- Bachelor's Degree (preferred)

Work Location: In person