Divisional Sales Manager (West Region)

Responsibilities

• Manage sales staff in a geographic region.
• Maximize production through territory structure and staffing (consistently improve the validity of territories).
• Define and clearly communicate a vision, strategy, and goals to the wholesalers.
• Recruit, hire, train, coach and develop wholesalers.
• Actively mentor staff, acting as a role model.
• Work closely with internal support teams – treat them as an extension of the external sales teams.
• Train wholesalers on the products and processes, coach, and work with them to apply their style to the products and processes.
• Create a team atmosphere by encouraging and valuing collaboration/team results.
• Deliver impactful coaching and developmental feedback.
• Build strong relationships with our strategic partners, registered representatives and firms.
• Represent Hartford Funds and/or present at various meetings.
• Maintain open communications with other departments (e.g., marketing, internals, etc.) in order to influence direction.
• Effectively plan and manage expense budgets for the division.
• Perform management activities consistent with corporate human resource policies including performance reviews, performance improvement, etc.
• Supervise field activity.
• Track and analyze activities and sales results to assess wholesaler effectiveness and discover opportunities for improvement.
• Cost and compliance management.
• Work collaboratively across departments and functions to drive the Hartford Funds culture and strengthen the brand.

Qualifications

• Five years of experience leading a team at a national or regional level
• Ten years financial services industry experience
• Demonstrated abilities in coaching a sales organization and accomplishment of goals with a mutual fund firm; ETF and SMA sales experience is a plus.
• Outstanding energy, focus, and drive to achieve results
• Proven results and demonstrated sustainable achievement in a financial sales environment
• Capacity to build and manage relationships across entire organization and with our partner firms
• Sets high standards for self and others and excellent interpersonal skills
• A confident public speaker, great at making presentations
• Resourcefulness and superior problem solving skills
• In-depth product knowledge and investment acumen
• Solid performance management skills
• Holds a keen awareness of the industry as a whole: the competition, market dynamics, industry trends, customer needs and compliance
• Able to handle complex or rapid flow of information and ideas effectively
• Excellent organization, communication and time management skills
• Talent champion
• Trusted decision-maker
• Able to manage risk and motivate a diverse work force
• Recruit, on-board and deploy talent
• Plan and manage expense budgets for division
• A Bachelor's Degree, preferably business, economics, finance, sales or marketing (or equivalent on-the-job experience)
• Series 7, 63 24 or Series 26 license (required)