Insurance Sales Agent

About the role

Rural Mutual Insurance is looking for people who are ready to put their skills to work in a business they can grow and be proud of, serving Ashland and the surrounding communities. Insurance experience is valued but not required. Success in this role comes from the ability to build relationships, earn trust, stay organized, and serve others.

Many successful agents have backgrounds in insurance and financial services, military service, law enforcement, fire service, and emergency response, education, coaching, and school administration, community banking, mortgage lending, and agricultural finance, small business ownership, contracting, and farm operations, hospitality, retail management, and customer service leadership, business development, account management, and professional sales, healthcare, nonprofit leadership, and community organizations, and early-career professionals in business, agriculture, finance, communications, or related fields.

Responsibilities

• Develop relationships with individuals, families, farmers, and business owners
• Identify customer risks and match them with the right insurance solutions
• Build referral networks with local professionals, lenders, and community leaders
• Participate in community organizations and local events
• Create and execute a business plan with support from your manager
• Grow a book of business that generates long-term, recurring revenue

Requirements

Agents who are most successful in this role tend to be driven by relationships, not transactions, comfortable with accountability and honest about their performance, active in their community or eager to become a recognized part of it, resilient enough to keep going when the first month is harder than expected, forward-thinking enough to treat this like the business it is, not a job, and coachable enough to follow a proven system while it is still new to them.

Qualifications

If you've spent your career helping people, solving problems, leading teams, serving your community, or building relationships, you may already have the foundation to succeed. We'll provide the training, licensing support, and coaching to help you build the rest.

Skills

Skills that make a difference include building trust, leading under pressure, staying disciplined when things get hard, and showing up for the people counting on you.

Benefits

• Comprehensive licensing support and pre-licensing training
• Structured onboarding and a clearly defined ramp period
• One-on-one coaching from an experienced manager
• Marketing resources, tools, and ongoing development programs
• Access to underwriting professionals who work alongside you
• A community of agents across Wisconsin invested in each other's success
• $2,000 signing bonus

Pay

Financed Agents receive a base salary, commissions, and bonus opportunities. Starting salaries are typically around $48,000 annually. Total first-year earnings for agents meeting performance expectations generally range between $75,000 and $85,000, though actual earnings vary based on production and business results.

As Financed Agents transition into Career Agent roles, income continues to grow through new business production and retention. Agents who commit to the process and invest in their community see significant income growth in years two and three as referrals build, renewals compound, and their reputation takes hold.