Sales Manager (B2B - Funeral) - Central ILLINOIS

About the role

Funeral Directors Life seeks a Market Center Manager (MCM) to cover Central ILLINOIS. Our MCMs are responsible for building and maintaining partnerships with funeral homes of every size within their markets. They are also responsible for periodically providing sales coaching or consultation to firms with independent agents, or who employ agents to write their preneed.

Job Responsibilities

• Work with funeral home accounts who want to grow their business
• Tell the Funeral Directors Life story through our proven sales process
• Coach and develop others while making sound decisions
• Inspire your customers to achieve their vision for the future
• Cook up and execute sales and marketing plans and activities within your market
• Work closely with other Funeral Directors Life managers and the Executive Management team to achieve our goals and objectives
• Continually develop and improve the business-to-consumer sales efforts

Qualifications

• Possess - or be willing to acquire - a ILLINOIS Life Insurance license
• FUNERAL INDUSTRY experience PREFERRED
• Proven track record of sales success – at least five years
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to handle multiple projects
• High moral and ethical standards
• Four year college degree preferred