Account Representative - State Farm Agent Team Member
Chicago
Account Representative - State Farm Agent Team Member
Full Time • Chicago
Benefits:
- 401(k) matching
- Bonus based on performance
- Opportunity for advancement
- Paid time off
Build Your Skills. Grow Your Income. Create Your Future.
Looking for a career where your effort and results actually matter?
Join a winning insurance and financial services team where you'll receive training, coaching, and the opportunity to develop valuable sales and business skills while helping people protect what matters most.
We're looking for motivated, competitive, and coachable people who want more than just a paycheck. If you're willing to learn, work hard, and challenge yourself, this could be the opportunity that launches your career.
No insurance experience? That's okay. We'll teach you.
What we can't teach is ambition, work ethic, character, and the desire to succeed.
What You'll Do
As a Sales Team Member, your job is to create new customer relationships and help people make smart decisions about protecting their families, income, property, and future.
You'll learn how to:
- Connect with prospective customers through phone, text, email, referrals, and community outreach
- Build relationships and create new business opportunities
- Ask the right questions to understand a customer's needs
- Educate customers about insurance and financial products
- Recommend solutions based on each customer's situation
- Explain the value of coverage beyond simply finding the lowest price
- Confidently ask customers for their business
- Follow up with prospects and turn conversations into customers
- Ask satisfied customers for referrals
- Set activity and sales goals and track your results
- Build a growing book of customer relationships
This is a sales position. You'll be expected to prospect, have conversations, follow up, ask for the business, and work toward measurable goals.
If that excites you rather than scares you, keep reading.
You May Be a Great Fit If...
You're ambitious.
You want to accomplish something and you're willing to work for it.
You want to accomplish something and you're willing to work for it.
You're motivated by results.
You like goals, competition, and knowing that your performance can impact your earning potential.
You like goals, competition, and knowing that your performance can impact your earning potential.
You're coachable.
You don't expect to know everything on day one. You're willing to listen, practice, accept feedback, and improve.
You don't expect to know everything on day one. You're willing to listen, practice, accept feedback, and improve.
You're confident.
You're comfortable starting conversations, meeting new people, and asking for someone's business.
You're comfortable starting conversations, meeting new people, and asking for someone's business.
You're resilient.
You understand that not every conversation results in a sale. You can hear "no," learn from it, and move on to the next opportunity.
You understand that not every conversation results in a sale. You can hear "no," learn from it, and move on to the next opportunity.
You take ownership.
When you face a challenge, you focus on what you can do next rather than waiting for someone else to solve it.
When you face a challenge, you focus on what you can do next rather than waiting for someone else to solve it.
You like helping people.
You want your work to have a purpose beyond hitting a number.
You want your work to have a purpose beyond hitting a number.
You're disciplined.
You can manage your time, stay focused, follow a plan, and consistently do the activities necessary to produce results.
You can manage your time, stay focused, follow a plan, and consistently do the activities necessary to produce results.
You have character.
You're honest, dependable, hard-working, and treat customers and teammates with respect.
You're honest, dependable, hard-working, and treat customers and teammates with respect.
You want to grow.
You're willing to study, obtain the required insurance licenses, learn our products, master our systems, and continually improve your skills.
You're willing to study, obtain the required insurance licenses, learn our products, master our systems, and continually improve your skills.
What We'll Teach You
You don't need to arrive as an experienced salesperson.
We'll teach you how to become one.
Through training, coaching, practice, and real customer conversations, you'll develop skills in:
- Sales and prospecting
- Professional communication
- Relationship building
- Needs-based selling
- Insurance planning
- Handling objections
- Asking for the sale
- Follow-up and pipeline management
- Referral generation
- Goal setting and accountability
- Time management
- Customer relationship management
These aren't just insurance skills. They're business and communication skills you can use throughout your career.
Why Insurance?
Most people don't spend their day thinking about insurance.
Until they need it.
An accident happens. A home is damaged. Someone becomes sick or passes away unexpectedly. Income disappears. A family realizes too late that they weren't properly protected.
Your job is to have important conversations before the unexpected happens.
You'll help customers understand their risks, explore their options, and make informed decisions about protecting what they've worked hard to build.
That makes this more than selling a product.
You're helping people prepare for real life.
What Can You Build Here?
For the right person, this can become much more than another job.
You'll have an opportunity to build:
Your Income
Develop the skills and habits necessary to produce results and increase your earning potential.
Develop the skills and habits necessary to produce results and increase your earning potential.
Your Confidence
Learn how to communicate, sell, negotiate, handle rejection, and confidently lead conversations.
Learn how to communicate, sell, negotiate, handle rejection, and confidently lead conversations.
Your Professional Skills
Gain experience in sales, insurance, financial services, marketing, relationship management, and business development.
Gain experience in sales, insurance, financial services, marketing, relationship management, and business development.
Your Network
Build relationships with customers, professionals, businesses, and people throughout the community.
Build relationships with customers, professionals, businesses, and people throughout the community.
Your Career
A few focused years developing strong sales and business skills can create experience you'll carry with you for the rest of your professional life.
A few focused years developing strong sales and business skills can create experience you'll carry with you for the rest of your professional life.
The Opportunity
Imagine becoming the person who knows how to walk into a room and start a conversation.
You know how to build trust.
You know how to ask great questions.
You know how to communicate value.
You know how to handle rejection without losing confidence.
You know how to turn a conversation into a customer.
And you know that your success isn't based only on how long you've been somewhere—it's influenced by the skills you've developed and the results you produce.
That's what we want to help you build.
You'll receive leadership, coaching, training, and a proven process. Your responsibility is to show up, learn, execute, and improve.
Are You Ready?
You don't need years of experience.
You don't need to know everything about insurance.
But you do need to bring energy, discipline, character, competitiveness, and a willingness to be coached.
If you're looking for an opportunity to challenge yourself, develop valuable skills, help people, and build a career where your performance matters, we want to meet you.
Compensation: $52,000.00 - $72,000.00 per year
My team's mission is to help people manage the risks of everyday life, recover from the unexpected and realize their dreams. We are located in Chicago, IL and help customers with their insurance and financial services needs, including:
- Auto insurance
- Home insurance
- Life insurance
- Retirement planning
State Farm agents are independent contractors who hire their own employees. State Farm agents’ employees are not employees of State Farm. Agents are responsible for and make all employment decisions regarding their employees.
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