Sales Development Representative Ote Jobs in Baton Rouge, LA

Outside Sales Representative – Make a Difference with Us!

If you are passionate about making a positive impact and helping others, we're seeking an Outside Sales Representative who is driven to connect with people and make a real difference in their lives.

What You'll Do:

• Connect with Clients: Visit businesses within your territory to introduce and explain our supplemental insurance products.

• Build Lasting Relationships: Develop meaningful connections and trust with clients as you support their needs.

• Enjoy Flexibility: Set your own schedule and work independently, while benefiting from a supportive team environment.

• Create Impact: Help clients achieve greater financial security and peace of mind with our top-quality solutions.

What We're Looking For:

• Passion for Helping Others: A genuine desire to support and assist clients in finding the best solutions for their needs.

• Self-Motivated: Ability to manage your own time and work independently.

• Resilient Attitude: Skillful in overcoming challenges and maintaining a positive outlook.

• Full-Time Availability: Prepared to commit to a 40-hour work week.

Our Ideal Candidate:

• Tough-minded, confident, and self-starting

• Disciplined and purposeful; with a desire to work independently

• Skilled at overcoming objections and not afraid of rejection

• Willing to work a full-time work week (40 hours)

• Possessing a track record of high performance or excellence

• Passionate about helping others 

• Loves the hunt and likes working in a dynamic, changing work environment

Overview of Duties and Responsibilities:

This is an outside sales position working in your own assigned sales territory. We will train you to call on small and medium-sized businesses that operate in a variety of industries, meeting face-to-face with business owners and decision-makers to offer some of the industry's best supplemental insurance products and services to them and their employees. You will work with business owners, benefits managers, and their employees individually at times; other times, you will give product presentations with employee groups as large as 50-100+ people. You will be expected to:

• Respond to general emails and phone calls from clients

• Set follow-up appointments with prospective and current clients to review their needs

• Be present on scheduled calls or meetings with your sales team or manager

• Call on new businesses, referrals, and existing clients who need to be re-serviced

• Build and maintain your own book of business

• Meet with sales team manager as needed to discuss and set your upcoming monthly and quarterly target sales goals and quotas

• Develop relationships with local business owners in your territory

• Set your own scheduled working hours and submit them to your sales manager each week

• Follow up on provided sales leads and cold-call on businesses in person, balancing "cold" lead generation and sales with your warm leads and appointments with existing clients

• Submit your sales metrics and activity daily

We Offer:

• Virtual classroom training as well as hands-on sales training in your own territory

• Weekly draw pay with bonuses and commission eligibility upon start

• Quarterly and annual incentive trips, cash bonuses, and stock share bonuses

• Advancement and promotions based on personal performance

• Excellent ongoing professional development, advanced sales training, and leadership training

• Increased schedule flexibility once you have an established book of business

• Work around other like-minded, driven, caring people in a culture that feels like a family

• Additional Position Qualifications:

• Already licensed in Health & Life general lines (or willing and able to obtain Health & Life producer license - licensing reimbursement offered)

• Bachelor's degree or a minimum of 4 years of professional (post-high school) work experience. Candidates within 6 months or less of degree completion will be considered, as will candidates with less than 4 years of professional work experience with relevant or specialized outside sales experience.

If you're ready to take on a fulfilling role where your efforts directly contribute to the success and well-being of others, apply today and let's start this journey together!

We do not use AI in our recruiting/interview process. Your resume will be reviewed and your interview will be conducted by one of our team members. Due to the nature of this position talking to others about insurance during difficult health topics we strongly believe this position cannot lean on AI but rather requires connecting with people.