Retirement Relationship Manager – Team Leader
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!!!
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