Retirement Planning Consultant (Traverse City, MI)

Job Family

Business Development / Direct 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

Provides dedicated on-site support and educational services for a major client at one or more locations. Ensures that overall program objectives are met, including the delivery of quality group educational meetings and one-on-one retirement meetings. Serves as a trusted connector to Transamerica products and services for retirement advice.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute strategies and approaches to promote participant action toward a fully funded retirement; deliver on key plan metrics (i.e. retirement outlook, increase participant deferral rates, etc.).
• Develop and manage client relationships from an educational perspective; build and foster productive relationships with Human Resources, management team and participants.
• Conduct group education meetings, deliver workshops, webinars and enrollment meetings to achieve client and Transamerica goals. 
• Conduct one-on-one retirement planning meetings with client employees.
• Use Transamerica products and services to help participants deliver a strategy to meet retirement objectives.
• Provide participants with insight into the funds offered under each client plan, including fund objectives and performance.
• Identify asset retention needs and initiate discussions with participants, including opening and funding solutions as an IAR and/or referring opportunities to the Transamerica Advice Center.  Retain assets in plan and roll plan assets to an IRA under DOL fiduciary advice rules.
• Explain and ensure participants understand product options; make appropriate recommendations.
• Work with participants with multi-product needs and connect with other product specialists as needed.
• Maintain current and accurate records to document progress towards goals.
• Provide ongoing support to high value participants that leave their employer and choose to keep assets within the Transamerica plan.
• Hold regular meetings with internal partners, such as client executives, communication directors, account managers and other key company stakeholders.
• Participate in projects for the expansion or enhancement of the Retirement Education and Planning Services organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent business experience.
• FINRA Series 6 or 7.
• FINRA Series 63 or obtain within six months.
• Retirement Plans Associate (RPA) or Charted Retirement Plan Counselor (CRPC), or obtain within 12 months.  Higher certification (e.g. CFP, CRC, CEBS, ChFC, CIM