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In an industry built on trust and relationships, we believe it is the people that make a company and our people are significant to our growth and the key to our success.\nEagle Life has job opportunities to take your career to the next level while offering excellent benefits, community and employee engagement, and educational advancement in the insurance industry. We are looking for high energy individuals aspiring and ready to extend their reach with a company that is innovative, inclusive and making a lasting impact. Join a team where you are appreciated and valued, work-life balance is top priority and company culture is not just talked about but is something that’s expressed in our daily work environment.\nApply today to be a part of our success and Soar Higher®!\nGENERAL PURPOSE OF THE JOB: \nThe Internal Wholesaler is responsible for developing, implementing and supporting Sales and Marketing strategies within established sales territory to promote and increase sales of Eagle Life (EL) annuity products. The incumbent manages sales territory in conjunction with external partner based on the requirements established by Eagle Life. Work requires independent judgment and discretion in managing targeted relationships with business partners and driving sales. \n#LI-SD1\nLocation: Des Moines, IA or Houston, TX\nESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:\nPartners with the External Wholesaler covering the same territory to identify and develop relationships with targeted Broker Dealer (BD) partners and Registered Representatives to successfully market and sell EL products.\nIn conjunction with Sales management and External Wholesaler, develops sales goals and marketing plans to grow sales, market share and increase visibility for EL.\nPursues and cultivates business relationships, partnerships, and alliances internally, externally, and virtually through various networks and organizations.\nConducts proactive telephone sales presentations to financial advisors highlighting the EL products and value proposition. Creates talking points and agendas to utilize along with key selling points.\nApplies knowledge of each Advisor’s practice and the firm to develop and provide optimal strategies.\nUses advisor and firm intelligence to pivot, cross-sell, and open new opportunities for Eagle strategies and products.\nIdentifies and executes opportunities to use Eagle strategies to help advisors and firms grow their business.\nMaintains a thorough working knowledge of Eagle products, strategies, systems, processes, and technologies.\nApplies product expertise to efficiently win and effectively execute opportunities.\nManages time and productivity, creates operating efficiencies, leverages existing systems.\nUses Eagle tools, systems, and processes to maximize efficiency and effectiveness.\nConsistently expands the producer base by engaging both new producers and fallen angels.\nEnsures consistent movement of opportunities through the sales process as measured by advisor commitments.\nEffectively probes to uncover the business goals financial advisors have and interpret how we fit in; and what we can offer to drive sales and assets and build relationships with advisors through defined territory plan and established sales process.\nCreate plans for presenting EL products and offerings to support financial advisors in meeting their business needs, remaining flexible in discovering more about their business and where our products can support their needs and determine what is appropriate to offer.\nExecutes consistent follow up with financial advisors to advance the sales process and deepen advisor relationships including follow up sales calls, problem resolutions, thank you calls and running and emailing illustrations and necessary paperwork.\nNavigates the organization to provide problem resolution assistance to financial advisors within the territory. This includes providing a high level of customer service and leveraging our resources to make recommendations and guide selection of final resolution. Communicates resolution to the financial advisors.\nGenerates ideas and helps create content of emails and messaging to financial advisors.\nActively stays current on investment strategies and trends in the financial industry.\nPerforms other related work as assigned.\nSUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: NA \nDirect Reports: None \nGeneral Description of Indirect Reports (2 and 3-downs): None\nEDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:\nBachelor's Degree (B.A.) from four-year college or university in marketing, business administration or related field of study; or equivalent related experience.\nPrior sales support or customer service experience in a sales environment beneficial.\nFinancial services sales experience preferred.\nCERTIFICATES, LICENSES, PROFESSIONAL DESIGNATIONS: \nCurrent Life & Health Insurance License preferred. If not currently licensed, ability to obtain within 45 days of employment is required.\nAbility to obtain additional licenses in the future, if necessary.\nKNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:\nExcellent presentation skills and public speaking skills.\nStrong interpersonal and relationship building skills to allow for collaborative work effort.\nDemonstrated success in developing and executing sales plans.\nKnowledge of retirement products.\nAbility to interact with all levels of internal and external resources, vendors as well as other departments.\nStrong problem-solving abilities.\nProfessional maturity to effectively interface with financial advisors.\nStrong organizational skills with ability to multi task and manage territory.\nStrong customer service orientation.\nEffective verbal and written communication skills.\nMathematical skills and strong attention to detail.\nProficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite.\nAbility to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.\nAbility to effectively present information and respond to questions.\nAbility to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals and technical/operational procedures.\nAbility to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.\nAbility to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.\nAbility to successfully handle pressure and meet deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.\nRequires ability to travel 5% of the time at most.\nAbility to maintain valid driver’s license.\n\nAt American Equity, our core values-Empowered, Passion, Integrity, and Caring-are more than words. 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To learn more about American Equity, our culture, and our values, visit the Careers site.\nIowa Best Companies to Work for 2025 | Top Workplaces\nFor more information about how your information is processed, please click on the Privacy tab at the bottom of the page and then click on the Applicant Privacy Policy.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7229,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Health insurance","Life insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Financial Services","Property & Casualty Insurance","Life Insurance & Annuities"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-28T01:30:51Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":5,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.188,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":297,"expected_fill_days":48,"reasons":["conf:0","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-11-01T06:10:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/american-equity-internal-wholesaler-eagle-life","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/american-equity-internal-wholesaler-eagle-life.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-01T09:04:56Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":14090,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-02T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1791729},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1791729"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Famerican-equity-internal-wholesaler-eagle-life"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Famerican-equity-internal-wholesaler-eagle-life"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Famerican-equity-internal-wholesaler-eagle-life"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/american-equity-internal-wholesaler-eagle-life\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Famerican-equity-internal-wholesaler-eagle-life"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":1364421}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"american-equity.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":1364421},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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