Now Hiring - Sammons Financial Group, Inc. - Manager, Life New Business in Sioux Falls, SD

What you can expect as a Manager, Life New Business

Lead, coach and develop Life New Business team members to provide efficient, compliant and high quality service to our customers in support of the business unit's goals and established service level agreements. Drive individual and team performance to meet stated KPIs (key productivity indicators) and SLAs while continuously driving for efficiency gains and improvement to overall ease of doing business for our customers. Adhere to Sammons Financial Group (SFG) member companies shared values in all decisions and actions while ensuring mortality cost is not compromised.

TEAM SUMMARY: The Life New Business team reviews new business applications to ensure compliance with state regulations. Communicating frequently with the agent and internal sale partners is essential via telephone or email throughout a lengthy underwriting process (i.e. 24- 90 days). We support several distribution channels and a multitude of products (i.e.term and index ul). Our teams are located in Sioux Falls with many employees working remotely.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience preferred
• Insurance industry experience preferred
• Prior management of KPIs, SLAs, planning and workforce management data preferred
• Bias to action and sense of urgency and possess problem solving, strategic and process thinking skills
• Effective leadership, coaching, motivation and decision making skills
• Strong focus on customer service
• Proven ability to manage multi-facetted business needs and diverse processes
• Effectively lead workforce dispersed in multi-site locations servicing multiple lines of business and product lines
• Exceptional verbal, written and visual communication skills
• Must exhibit a strong emotional intelligence
• Self-motivated and ability to work independently and effectively under deadline pressures
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate facts and data using sound and mature judgment
• Balance all business decisions weighing the cost benefits of each to ensure that cost effective solutions are reached, keeping in mind long term benefits and automation
• Due to the financial nature and level of accountability of this position, a credit and criminal background check is required -

Sammons Financial Group Companies offers some of today’s most sought after life insurance, annuity, retirement planning products and portfolio-management solutions. Unlike most financial organizations, our companies are not publicly traded, which means we’re focused on long-term value rather than short-term earnings pressures. As a privately held company, our leaders and employees remain consistently focused on long-term growth, making decisions that allow us to deliver on our commitments to customers, distribution partners, our employees, and our communities. Individually, our companies provide value in the products and services they offer. Together we represent a history of strength and longevity.

What you can expect when you join Sammons Financial Group:

• A rich company culture driven by private ownership and intentional leadership inspiring employees to engage in our healthy, high-performing and values based culture
• A healthy balance between work and personal life to do your best work. Workplace flexibility options may be available.
• Friday afternoons off, competitive Paid Time Off, volunteer time off and a generous number of paid holidays!
• Great benefits including medical, dental, vision, wellness, charitable giving programs, education assistance… to name a few!
• A generous, 100% company funded, Employee Stock Ownership Retirement Plan!
• A casual dress code, including jeans!