Field Education Specialist

<strong>We&rsquo;re motivated by the fact that educators take care of our children&rsquo;s future, and we believe they deserve someone to look after theirs. We help educators identify their financial goals and develop plans to achieve them. This includes insurance to protect what they have today and financial products to help them prepare for their future.</strong>

Springfield, IL

Horace Mann

<p><strong>Horace Mann was founded in 1945 by two Springfield, Illinois, teachers who saw a need for quality, affordable auto insurance for teachers. Since then, we&rsquo;ve broadened our mission to helping all educators protect what they have today and prepare for a successful tomorrow.&nbsp; And with our broadened mission has come corporate growth:&nbsp; We serve more than 4,100 school districts nationwide, we&rsquo;re publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: HMN) and we have more than $12 billion in assets.</strong></p> <p><strong>We&rsquo;re motivated by the fact that educators take care of our children&rsquo;s future, and we believe they deserve someone to look after theirs.&nbsp; We help educators identify their financial goals and develop plans to achieve them.&nbsp; This includes insurance to protect what they have today and financial products to help them prepare for their future. Our tailored offerings include special rates and benefits for educators.</strong></p> https://recruiting.adp.com/srccar/public/RTI.home?d=ExternalCareerSite&c=1138841#/

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Field Ops & Marketing

Overview: <p>The Field Education Specialist is responsible for delivering education to our sales force through a variety of mediums including intranet, classroom, and individual and small group consultations and through modules designed for use by the field management/education team.</p>
Responsibilities: <ul> <li>Delivering product, process, sales, and technology education to our sales force/points of distribution and the introduction of new business model</li> <li>Educating sales distribution on life insurance, retirement, and financial services products for both Horace Manna and Authorized Third-Party Vendor products</li> <li>Must be able to perform in a matrix management environment</li> <li>The expansion of products and services, learning new product features/benefits as well as the technology required to market/support those products</li> <li>Addition of partner products/services</li> <li>Maximize distance learning capabilities to ensure appropriate programs and resources are available to field distribution channels on demand in support of sales, products, processes, and technology</li> <li>Insure curriculum/programs for field distribution channels are compliant, comprehensive, effectively delivered and monitored for effectiveness</li> <li>Ability to deliver field education to a variety of different audiences, including but not limited to, licensed producers, agents, and sales leadership</li> <li>Critical focus on the delivery of educational curriculum designed for the field distribution channels including field leadership, agents, and licensed and unlicensed agent staff</li> <li>Insure distance learning capabilities are fully implemented and monitored for effectiveness</li> <li>Partner with line divisions to identify product, processes, sales, and technology educational needs; recommending the most effective means to deliver education with the objective of enabling sales distribution to effectively and confidently market products/services to our market</li> <li>Partner with field sales distribution in the delivery of just in time and relevant educational opportunities</li> <li>Some responsibility to building educational curriculum with the support of team resources</li> </ul>
Requirements: <ul> <li>Ability to obtain P&amp;C/Life &amp; Annuity/Series 6, 63,26 licenses</li> <li>Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience</li> <li>Minimum of 3-5 years' experience in the insurance industry, insurance sales, sales management or equivalent</li> <li>Must be self motivated and results driven with minimal direction</li> <li>Proven experience delivering educational curriculum</li> </ul>