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Senior Associate Sales Trainer – Employee Benefits
Location
United States
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
$76.5K - $100K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Associate Sales Trainer – Employee Benefits
Protective Life
• This role serves the Employee Benefits Division through the design, development, and delivery of learning solutions that empower our key stakeholders to drive meaningful business results. • This role will report to the Director of Sales Training for Protection, Retirement, and Employee Benefits, and work closely with sales leaders, operations partners, and their respective teams. • The successful candidate will be involved in all aspects of sales training development, including planning, building, delivering, measuring and supporting the programs we offer. • The ideal candidate will be organized, well-versed in employee benefits, a skillful communicator using considered and appropriate means, and able to convey advanced sales skills and concepts simply and meaningfully, using adult learning practices and visual communication. • The Senior Associate Sales Training plays a strategic role in shaping and delivering high-impact learning experiences that drive sales performance and support enterprise-level initiatives. • This role combines deep instructional design expertise with leadership, project management, and stakeholder collaboration to create scalable, innovative, and measurable learning solutions.
Job Requirements
- Highly organized with a strong attention to detail.
- Strong planning and execution skillset.
- Ability to learn and leverage learning technologies.
- Stays current on latest and emerging trends and technologies.
- Understands internal systems used by sales teams.
- Intimate understanding of insurance and employee benefit products and sales processes.
- Ability to manage multiple projects with overlapping timelines.
- Proficient in collaborative work, with the ability to work independently to achieve outcomes.
- Undergraduate Degree (preferably in a related field such as business administration, human resources, and organization development); Master’s degree preferred. Industry certifications (e.g., CPTD/APTD) desirable.
- 5+ years’ experience in the instructional design and delivery, preferably in financial services and/or insurance industry.
- Experience with elearning authoring tools (e.g., Articulate 360, Captivate).
- Exceptional presentation skills with the ability to deliver to audiences of varying experience and seniority.
- Skilled communicator possessing strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent planning, organizing, coordinating, and time management skills, with strong attention to detail.
- Skilled with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); CRM and illustration experience is preferred.
- Experience with learning management systems and technologies is preferred.
- Experience adapting presentations “in real-time” as audience needs dictate (examples – ability to adapt to a shortened time allotment for training, a location change, technology challenges).
Benefits
- We aim to protect the wellbeing of our employees and their families with a broad benefits offering.
- In addition to offering comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance, we support emotional wellbeing through mental health benefits and an employee assistance program.
- Work/life balance is important and Protective offers a variety of paid time away benefits (e.g., paid time off, paid parental leave, short-term disability, and a cultural observance day).
- The financial health of our employees is just as important as physical and emotional health.
- Some of the financial wellbeing benefits include contributions to healthcare accounts, a pension plan, and a 401(k) plan with Company matching.
- All employees are encouraged to protect their overall wellbeing by engaging in ProHealth Rewards, Protective’s platform to improve wellbeing while earning cash rewards.
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