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Group Health and Specialty Benefits Sales Manager for 6 New Business Account Executives (3 Key Account and 3 Mid-Market 51-99) to exceed new business sales budget for the New Jersey Minor market for Group Fully Insured and Self-Funded medical and specialty businesses. Office is based in East Brunswick, NJ.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Vision - Shaping and orchestrating a compelling, forward-looking vision that guides each business and contributes to the enterprise
• Plan - Creating and executing an operational annual plan to accomplish the strategy
• Culture - Setting the tone and bringing the culture to life through an aligned strategy
• Structuring and Staffing - Attracting and selecting staff and structuring roles and responsibilities; deploying aligned staff whose capabilities enable the organization to achieve its goals
• Resource Allocation - Obtaining and distributing all the resources needed for priorities, goals and strategy; deploying the resources that best enable the team to do their work
• Progress and Results - Monitoring and measuring progress against plan; providing real time supportive and corrective feedback and assistance
• Represent and Respond to Stakeholders - Preparing and delivering presentations to and fostering relationships with critical stakeholders; recognizing and responding to the diverse needs of key inside and outside stakeholders
• Conflict Management - Refereeing the inevitable individual, team and business unit conflicts; offering assistance and direction moving to productive resolution
• Talent Management Futures - Installing and supporting a talent management process that provides a continuous flow of senior talent well into the future after you have retired
  

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Valid driver’s license
• Fully Insured and Self-Funded group insurance sales experience, with a solid understanding of group insurance
• underwriting and funding options
• Group Health Insurance and Group Specialty Benefit product knowledge
• Proven excellent presentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to develop deep relationships with group insurance distribution partners (brokers, general agents, consultants) in the New Jersey market
• Demonstrated ability to develop talent and coach for success
• Proven direct sales skills
• Proven ability to create a business plan and execute on it to exceed goals
• Successful track record of working within a team as well as matrix partners who support the business
• Successful track record of exceeding sales goals as a manager or as an individual contributor
• State Life & Health Insurance maintained as required by State law
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience managing a team of sales executives exceeding segment goals
• New Jersey Group Insurance Sales experience
  

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