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Are you ready to grow your career in a dynamic and supportive environment? Join our 24-month training and development program designed to help you become a top-tier insurance sales professional. You’ll work closely with retail agents, build strong relationships, and drive new business opportunities. This role is based in the office, with opportunities for local travel and participation in industry events.

In this role, you’ll connect with retail agents to create new business opportunities. You’ll make outbound calls, educate customers on quoting platforms, and help turn leads into results. You’ll also contribute to marketing efforts like email campaigns, social media posts, webinars, and customer events.

Your day-to-day will include:

• Making 50+ outbound calls daily to drive submissions and bind orders.
• Reporting weekly on your sales calls and results.
• Sharing ideas for social media posts and email campaigns.
• Hosting monthly webinars and coordinating customer events.
• Reviewing trends in quoting activity and addressing them with your team.
• Collaborating with your Regional Sales Manager to refine strategies.
• Pursuing continuing education and insurance licenses to grow your expertise.

This is an in-office role with some travel required for training, networking, and client meetings.

Required:

• Bachelor's degree and 1 year related experience required.
• Strong working knowledge of potential clients and the insurance brokerage business.

Preferred:

• Professional designation may be preferred, including CEBS, CPCU, CIC or ARM.
•  Solid analytical skills necessary to make decisions and resolve issues inherent in handling claims.
• Able to plan and organize activities and workload and respond to multiple demands.
• Good verbal and written communications skills.

We offer a competitive and comprehensive compensation package. The base salary range represents the anticipated low end and high end of the range for this position. The actual compensation will be influenced by a wide range of factors including, but not limited to previous experience, education, pay market/geography, complexity or scope, specialized skill set, lines of business/practice area, supply/demand, and scheduled hours. On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits. 

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
• Life and accident insurance
• 401(K) and Roth options
• Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
• Educational expense reimbursement
• Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

• Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
• Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
• Training programs
• Gallagher Thrive program – elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
• Charitable matching gift program
• And more...

**The benefits summary above applies to fulltime positions. If you are not applying for a fulltime position, details about benefits will be provided during the selection process.

We value inclusion and diversity

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Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

Required:

• Bachelor's degree and 1 year related experience required.
• Strong working knowledge of potential clients and the insurance brokerage business.

Preferred:

• Professional designation may be preferred, including CEBS, CPCU, CIC or ARM.
•  Solid analytical skills necessary to make decisions and resolve issues inherent in handling claims.
• Able to plan and organize activities and workload and respond to multiple demands.
• Good verbal and written communications skills.