MMSD - Field Service Consultant
Springfield, Massachusetts
Overview
A career with us means you’ll help our customers secure their future and protect the ones they love. It also means you’ll work alongside exceptional people and be empowered to reach your professional and personal goals. Our employees are at the foundation of what makes MassMutual a strong, stable, and ethical business.
Our culture embodies the idea that we all are stronger and better through our support for one another. By valuing people for who they are, how they think, and what they bring to the table, we’ve become a better, more innovative company.
We invite you to explore the possibilities.
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Job Description
The Opportunity
Do you want to be part of a team that encourages your growth, supports your ambitions, and makes it a priority for you to reach your goals? Is helping people part of who you are? At MassMutual, we help millions of people find financial freedom, offer financial protection, and plan for the future. As a Relationship Manager, we do this by building trust with our customers by being knowledgeable problem solvers and prioritize their needs above all else. We Live Mutual.
The Team
MassMutual Strategic Distributors (MMSD) is MassMutual’s dedicated, third-party distribution channel focused on building on strong relationships and forging new ones with experienced financial firms and professionals. With a diverse and relevant portfolio, including whole life insurance, disability income insurance, fixed annuities, and hybrid life/long-term care insurance, MMSD is partnering with hundreds of financial firms to meet customers where they are with the financial solutions they need.
The Impact
- Act as liaison with internal business partners to provide advanced support to the administration of MassMutual’s Onboarding, Offboarding, Relationship Maintenance, Credentialing, Book of Business, Address Changes, Direct Deposit, Debt Management, and Compensation and Payroll functions for producers and entities.
- Work collaboratively to maintain and enhance effective relationships with our distribution partners, sales, and key account teams.
- Represent Onboarding team on key projects and initiatives.
- Own and drive escalations for our two distribution groups (Life&DI and Annuity/Hybrid) to ensure they are resolved quickly by the appropriate resource while.
- Identify and prioritize NIGO business throughout the onboarding process and resolve expeditiously.
- Proactively work with customers to guide them through our unique distribution model and workflows to allow business production to move along efficiently.
- Demonstrate agility and flexibility to triage multiple assignments and projects.
- Ability to make independent decisions / reach solutions and options through research and independent judgment based on interpretation and confident application of guidelines.
- Drive continuous improvement through use of Lean methodologies by influencing best practices, improved workflows, and technologies that improve service experience and efficiency.
The Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or 4+ years insurance industry work experience in lieu of degree
- 3+ years of insurance industry experience, with knowledge of annuity, life, disability, LTC, or hybrid insurance products
- 2+ years relationship management or customer facing experience
- 1+ year experience in an insurance operations environment and background in licensing, credentialing, and advisor appointment
- Due to the nature of this position, as a part of our background check process, candidates must be able to pass a non-registered fingerprint background check to qualify as a fingerprinted person under FINRA
The Ideal Qualifications
- Experience with and an understanding of Third Party distribution with Licensing, Credentialing and Relationship Management
- Proven experience with providing excellent customer service and building with business partners
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Extremely organized, detail-oriented individual who is capable of self-managing and multitasking in a fast-paced, demanding environment
- Minimal Travel expected with role
What to Expect as Part of MassMutual Strategic Distributors and the Team
- Regular meetings with the MMSD team
- Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager
- Access to mentorship opportunities
- Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQIA+, veteran and disability-focused Business Resource Groups
- Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms
- Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical business with industry leading pay and benefits
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MassMutual is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply. Note: Veterans are welcome to apply, regardless of their discharge status.If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us and share the specifics of the assistance you need.
MassMutual will accept applications on an ongoing basis until such time as a candidate has been offered employment.
Salary Range: $61,000.00-$80,000.00
Hiring Process
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Apply
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Screen
After your application has been reviewed, if you meet the qualifications for the role, a recruiter will reach out to you to start a conversation.
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Interview
If you are invited for an interview, you will be scheduled to meet with the hiring manager and hiring team. Coordinating calendars for interview schedules can take time, so your patience and flexibility is appreciated.
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Offer
If you are extended an offer to join MassMutual and accept, your start will be contingent upon a satisfactory background check.
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Hire
If you accept the offer, we will be so excited to welcome you to the MassMutual community!
Recruitment Fraud Awareness
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MassMutual will never ask job candidates to pay any kind of fee, make cash or check advancements, cash checks or make an investment in any product or service or provide information such as credit card numbers or banking PIN numbers as part of our hiring process.
If you are contacted by anyone asking for information outlined above it is likely fraudulent. If you have any concerns about the veracity of a request, please contact us directly to verify its legitimacy.
If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us and share the specifics of the assistance you need.
Award-Winning Culture
MassMutual is guided by a single purpose: We help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. As a company operated for the benefit of our members and participating policyowners, we are defined by mutuality and our vision to provide financial well-being for all Americans. It’s more than our company structure—it’s our way of life. We are a company of people protecting people. Our company exists because people are willing to share risk and resources and rely on each other when it counts.
We strive to embrace diversity in every sense, focusing on building a thriving community where everyone is valued, included, and feels that they belong.
At MassMutual, we Live Mutual.
Benefits for the whole you (and your loved ones)
There’s more to your life than your job and there’s more to your aspirations than a paycheck. We take a holistic view of compensation and benefits that provides the flexibility to create a healthy balance in your life for work, family, and community. We offer the benefits you’d expect, like medical, dental, 401(k), and generous vacation time, but we also offer ones you might not expect, like three paid days for volunteering, a $1250 annual wellness wallet, and up to 320 hours of caregiver leave.
Explore some of our offerings below. Full benefits details can be found here.
- In addition to generous vacation time, paid holidays, and flexible holidays, MassMutual offers 'take care' time to take care of yourself or someone you love—whether for physical illness or mental health.
- Medical and dental insurance
- Life, disability short-term and long-term insurance
- Well-being wallet: $1,250 per year for a wide range of qualifying wellness expenses
- Well-being support: Mindfulness, nutrition, fitness
- Personalized mental health solutions
- Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement programs
- Competitive salary and bonuses
- 401(k): Up to 10% total benefit, consisting of a 5% company match and a 5% annual contribution
- Educational assistance program
- Childcare support
- Financial counseling
- Caregiver Leave (up to 320 hours)
- Maternity Leave (a total of 18 weeks, 10 maternity + 8 parental)
- Parental Leave (8 weeks for all parents, birth or adoption, continuous or intermittent)
- Bereavement Leave: Up to 15 days to mourn the loss of a loved one, and you define 'loved one'
- Matching Gift: 100% match on employees’ charitable contributions to non-profits up to $5,000
- Volunteering: Three paid days for employees to volunteer with eligible nonprofits of their choice
- Matching time: MassMutual Foundation awards dollars to organizations for which employees volunteer
- Qualified Commuter Program through which eligible employees can pay qualified workplace commuting expenses with before-tax dollars
- Commuter wallet option for employees based at Boston and NYC campuses
Why MassMutual?
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How we work
MassMutual’s flexible workplace approach combines the importance of connecting in person and the flexibility of working remotely. Our hybrid model puts collaboration first with employees coming in at least three days per week to our spectacular campus settings and also enjoying the flexibility of remote Fridays, company-wide remote weeks, and a bank of flexible remote weeks to use throughout the year.
Where we work
Springfield Office
1295 State Street,
Springfield, MA
Boston Office
10 Fan Pier Blvd,
Boston, MA
New York Office
2 Park Ave,
New York, NY
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