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Field Sales Assistant

Farm Bureau Financial Services
  • West Des Moines, IA
    11 days ago

    Job Description

    Field Sales Assistant

    Do you pay great attention to detail, and have strong organizational and time management skills? Are you a team player with a positive "can-do" attitude? Do you have past assistant experience and are incredibly dependable? If so, this Field Sales Assistant opportunity could be a great fit for you!

    Who We Are: With Farm Bureau Financial Services, our client/members can feel confident knowing their family, home, cars and other property are protected. We value a culture where integrity, teamwork, passion, service, leadership and accountability are at the heart of every decision we make and every action we take. We're proud of our more than 80-year commitment to protecting the livelihoods and futures of our client/members and creating an atmosphere where our employees thrive.

    What You'll Do: As a Field Sales Assistant, you will support our District Managers and State Growth Consultants in the field. You will perform administrative duties including report preparation, calendar functions, meeting set up, basic accounting functions and other duties as needed to be a liaison to Home Office resources. Tracking and communication are key in this role, and you will use Excel for daily reports. No two days are the same, so it's important to be adaptable and flexible as you will have other duties as assigned.

    What It Takes to Join Our Team:

    • Associates degree (office administration or secretarial preferred) or equivalent plus 2 years of relevant experience.
    • High attention to detail and strong organizational, time management and meeting planning/facilitation skills.
    • Exceptional customer service skills, including strong verbal and written communication skills are required.
    • Strong relationship building skills with a can-do/will-do positive attitude.
    • Advanced computer skills are required in order to quickly learn our multiple systems (Microsoft Word and Excel skills preferred).
    • Must maintain and safeguard confidential information.
    • Work from our office in West Des Moines, Iowa.

    What We Offer You: When you're on our team, you get more than a great paycheck. You'll hear about career development and educational opportunities. We offer an enhanced 401K with a match, low-cost health, dental, and vision benefits, and life and disability insurance options. We also offer paid time off, including holidays and volunteer time, and teams who know how to have fun. Add to that an onsite wellness facility with fitness classes and programs, a daycare center, a cafeteria, and for many positions, even consideration for a hybrid work arrangement. Farm Bureau....where the grass really IS greener!

    If you''re interested in joining a company that appreciates its employees, provides growth and professional development opportunities, and offers great benefits, we invite you to apply today!

    Work Authorization/Sponsorship: At this time, we are not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship now or in the future, such as additional or permanent work authorization. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis. We are not able to sponsor now or in the future, or take over sponsorship of, an employment visa or work authorization for this role. For example, we are not considering candidates with OPT status.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationWest Des Moines, IA
    IndustryFinancial Services
    Company Size2,500 to 4,999 employees
    Year Founded1939
    Websitehttp://www.beafarmbureauagent.com

    About Company

    Farm Bureau Financial Services is looking for people to join our team. Are you interested in running your own business and helping others? As a Farm Bureau agent, you’ll sell insurance products, but being an agent is about so much more – it’s about building relationships and being an advocate for people in your community. Founded more than 75 years ago, we started off providing insurance for farmers. Today, we help people from all walks of life – rural, urban, and everything in between. We couldn’t be more proud of our heritage and our close relationship with the Farm Bureau federations in the states where we do business. When it comes to protecting livelihoods and futures, we’ve got it covered with a wide variety of property/casualty, life insurance, and financial services products.

    When you make a commitment to be a Farm Bureau agent, we make a commitment to you. We believe that little things make a big difference in your career, and at Farm Bureau, that means deciding on a work schedule that fits your life, new agent financing, marketing support, training and education, cash bonuses, incentive travel, and most importantly, you’ll be backed by a team of talented and supportive individuals who want to see you succeed. We invite you to take control of your professional future by visiting beafarmbureauagent.com. Click Get Started and apply today.

    Skills

    • Accountingunmatched
    • Administrative Skillsunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Computer Skillsunmatched
    • Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
    • Detail Orientedunmatched
    • Disability Insuranceunmatched
    • Field Salesunmatched
    • Financial Servicesunmatched
    • Futuresunmatched
    • Leadershipunmatched
    • Life Insuranceunmatched
    • Microsoft Excelunmatched
    • Microsoft Wordunmatched
    • Organizational Skillsunmatched
    • Plan Meetingsunmatched
    • Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
    • Team Playerunmatched
    • Time Managementunmatched
    • Writing Skillsunmatched

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