Regional Vice President, Life (RVP) - Houston, AR, LA

Job Family

Regional / Field Sales

About Us 

 

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.  

 

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. 

    

Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.* For more information,  visit www.transamerica.com. 

 

Who We Are 

  

Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. We’re a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamerica’s dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America’s leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services. 

 

What We Do 

 

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology). 

Job Description Summary

The Regional Vice President is responsible for achieving sales goals within a specified territory by providing sales and marketing support, customer service, and education on Transamerica products and services. Focus on driving revenue growth and supporting the sales of life products and fixed index annuity products for the WFG producers located in their assigned territory.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Execute a marketing plan to maintain and grow territory and assigned agencies/accounts.
• Partner with assigned agencies/accounts to make Transamerica their carrier of choice.
• Maintain a working knowledge of related sales concepts.
• Work closely with Internal Sales Desk and Marketing to support agencies/accounts.
• Maintain proactive, positive, and meaningful communication with agencies/accounts, home office, and other members of the sales team.
• Maintain a regular rotation for responsible area of coverage.
• Facilitate meetings as needed and schedule follow up appointments.
• Attend appropriate meetings within assigned territory – agency, industry.
• Work to best utilize resources from Home Office, Marketing, and Underwriting.
• Train, educate, and support distributors within assigned territory.
• Understand the operational aspects of major accounts.
• Manage travel and expense in line with established budget.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a business field or equivalent experience
• Three years of insurance industry experience, including one year in wholesaling
• Proven sales results
• Strong presentation and organizational skills
• Outstanding communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills
• Exceptional customer service focus
• Ability to learn and communicate Transamerica’s products, features, tools and services.
• Basic computer knowledge

Preferred Qualifications

• FINRA Series 6 and insurance licenses
• Professional designations (CLU, ChFC, CFP, CLTC) 
• Financial services/brokerage industry experience

Working Conditions

• Office environment
• Extensive travel (75%)

Compensation 

**Please note that the compensation information that follows is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to applicable pay transparency and compensation posting laws. It is estimated based on what a successful candidate might be paid in certain Company locations.** 

 

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