Retirement Relationship Manager – Team Leader

Apply Now
[ssba]

Location: Buffalo, NY     Type: Full Time

Position Focus:

  • This role is responsible for retirement plan design and providing clients with proactive services with existing and/or future plans with Lawley Retirement Advisors
  • You will have the opportunity to identify and make recommendations that are beneficial to your clients needs during quarterly/annual process
  • This position builds and maintains relationships with clients including plan sponsors, participants and financial professionals in a client facing environment
  • Work with Retirement plan providers to prepare proposals and to facilitate presentations for clients, or conduct presentations personally
  • Coordinates and facilitates marketing and implementation of new and existing clients.
  • Will conduct group employee education meeting to increase retirement plan participation and salary deferrals.
  • Acts as liaison to plan providers, third party admins, attorneys and accountants
  • Monitors team functions and identifies ways to improve efficiency and productivity
  • Prioritizes work flow for retirement team
  • Reach and maintain retention goal of 95% or greater
  • Support all Lawley Benefit Group initiatives, as guided by Lawley values, sales culture and scorecard

 

Successful candidates ideally possess:

  • 6 years or more related experience within the retirement plan industry, which would include the following type of experience: retirement plan client relationship management, retirement plan participant education experience, related corporate retirement plan experience or individual investment experience.
  • Active FINRA Series 6 or 7, Series 63, and Life Accident and Health.
  • Exemplary interpersonal, negotiation, decision-making and multitasking skills.
  • Ability to understand and explain technical information to a variety of audiences.
  • Dynamic Finalist Sales presentation skills highly preferred
  • Relevant knowledge of group insurance products, documents and usages
  • Computers skills are a must; Including Word, Excel, & Outlook. Morningstar Advisor Workstation and FI360 are preferred.
  • Demonstrated relationship building skills
  • Independence and ability to function well on a team
  • Incredible attention to detail and organizational skills
  • Open to continuing education, college degree preferred
  • Positive attitude, even in a high paced environment
  • A need to make customers and coworkers feel important and valued
  • Must be self-motivated, flexible and be able to use independent judgement.
  • Precise verbal and written communication skills, even under time constraints

 

What’s in it for you? The Lawley Advantage!

  • Fulfilling career securing your clients’ well being
  • Competitive salary, referral bonuses AND an annual bonus eligibility
  • Great Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Wellness– the works!)
  • Educational and growth opportunities
  • Generous PTO and 401K upon hire
  • Comfortable, family oriented culture
  • Office hours 8-4:30
  • Work hard, play hard!!!

Apply Now

Download a PDF

The Lawley Advantage

 
Lawley is a dynamic, independent regional firm of insurance professionals specializing in property and casualty, employee benefits and risk management consulting. We protect assets and minimize risk to help our clients avoid hardship. We strive to be the partner of choice built on a foundation of trust. We have been successful because of our values and our ability to offer Lawley caliber service! We are a sales organization that prides itself on our core values, including:
  • Relationship building
  • Respect and integrity
  • Passion
  • Accountability
  • Commitment to our Community

Wellness At Lawley

At Lawley, the Lawley Strong Wellness Program offers and implements innovative, best-practice wellness initiatives to enhance and improve overall health and well-being of our associates. The culture at Lawley will include living a healthy lifestyle with regard to all dimensions of wellness. Associates are encouraged to take health education and skills learned back to the home in order for family members to also live a healthy lifestyle.

General Career Inquiries

At Lawley, we are always interested in energetic, vibrant, talented individuals who have developed ambitious career goals. We invite you to tell us about yourself! We will be happy to review and keep your information on file. Send us your resume.
Lawley provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.

General Career Inquiries


Tell us about yourself and what you like to do for fun! We are always interested in meeting energetic, vibrant, talented individuals who have developed ambitious career goals.

Send Your Resume

Lawley provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.