Sales Executive - Chicago, IL - Full-time / Part-time

Real relationships, remarkable care, right here. This is healthcare reimagined. We are the first to unite relationship-driven primary care with user-friendly health insurance in one simple plan. We are built around the needs of members, creating a dedicated home base for health that reconnects the face-to-face care experience. Our doctors, health coaches and support teams operate within community-based clinics to put remarkable care within more people's reach. We are a community of people devoted to our members' health and an experience that makes you feel better just by walking through the door. We get health care right. Take your passion for small business and caring attitude and do your life's best work.(sm)

This role is a unique opportunity to promote, educate and sell a new membership experience uncommon to the healthcare delivery space. This role is directly responsible for selling to individuals and small group customers in the 1-99 member/employee space. 

This role will work directly with brokers/agents to distribute products. Unlike conventional broker distribution models we will offer products through a specialized limited broker channel. This role will work with sales leadership to identify, select and partner with the broker distribution channel. This role will be responsible to meeting all new business membership goals through cultivating strategic broker relationships.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for achieving annual sales goals for medical and specialty benefits products to small business (1 to 99 employees) and individual customers. This includes:
  
  
  
  • Curating a customized broker distribution channel
    
  • Educating broker channel on medical and ancillary products and offerings
    
  • Effectively differentiating our offering from other insurance carrier offerings
    
  • Positioning our solution to individuals and small group membership needs in the local marketplace
    
  • Strategically thinking how we can capture membership through a limited broker channel
    
  • Presenting us as a solution for customer finalist presentations
  
  
• Develop and growth small group rfp pipeline through broker channel
  
• Live the Ethos of forging deep lasting relationships that impact lives
  
• Community involvement through professional organizations, associations and local organizations
  
• Understand goals, operating principles, strategies and competitive position of the business
  
• Understand medical and specialty management operations and strategies
  
• Understand financing methodologies and strategies (fully insured)
  
• Firm grasp of healthcare reform
  
• Excellent presentation skills

Required Qualifications:

• Excellent group benefits and marketplace dynamics knowledge
  
• 2+ year of group health/ancillary sales experience
  
• Ability to work independently
  
• Successful track record of outperforming sales metrics
  
• Organized with strong computer skills
  
• Sales insurance license maintained by law
  
• Maintains valid driver's license

Careers at UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual. We all want to make a difference with the work we do. Sometimes we're presented with an opportunity to make a difference on a scale we couldn't imagine. Here, you get that opportunity every day. As a member of one of our elite teams, you'll provide the ideas and solutions that help nearly 25 million customers live healthier lives. You'll help write the next chapter in the history of health care. And you'll find a wealth of open doors and career paths that will take you as far as you want to go. Go further. This is your life's best work.(sm)

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Job Keywords: Sales, Healthcare Sales, Insurance Sales, Account Management, Chicago, IL, Illinois