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External eWholesaler | Prudential Financial | Shelton, CT

Prudential Financial, Inc. is a multinational financial services leader with operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Leveraging its heritage of life insurance and asset management expertise, Prudential is focused on helping individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth. The company's well-known Rock symbol is an icon of strength, stability, expertise and innovation that has stood the test of time. Prudential's businesses offer a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds, asset management, and real estate services. For more information, please visit http://www.prudential.com.

Prudential's eBusiness Development Group (eDG) is a center of excellence whose mission is to Internet enable Prudential's lines of business to allow them to better serve their clients, producers and prospects and drive incremental business value out of those relationships. Within eDG, the Annuity eMarketing team is responsible for all aspects of Prudential Annuities web sites.

In addition to the development and maintenance of the various web sites, a key component of the services Annuity eMarketing provides is the marketing of the various site's capabilities. The goal is to make sure Prudential Annuities' most important clients, financial professionals, understand all of the capabilities they have access to and how to use those capabilities to their fullest advantage in growing and servicing their business. Achieving that goal is a key component to Prudential Annuities' multi-billion dollar sales goals as one of the leading providers of advisor sold variable annuities. Accordingly, Prudential Annuities is committed to growing its web capabilities marketing team. The new Web Capabilities Marketing Director, often referred to as the eWholesaler, will have direct responsibility for helping to achieve and exceed those goals.

The new eWholesaler will join the existing eWholesaling team to carry the message about Prudential Annuities' web capabilities directly to financial professionals through office visits, seminars, roadshows, CE classes and other events throughout the western United States. The eWholesaler will also be responsible for identifying and documenting the web technology needs of the financial professionals in his territory and devising strategies to help address those needs.

Specific responsibilities for this position include:
  • Driving usage of and increasing satisfaction with Prudential Annuities web sites in a quantitaive and measuarble way
  • Influencing sales by helping Financial Professionals understand how Prudential Annuities web capabilities add value for them and their clients
  • Working closely and in tight partnership with the product wholesaling force to to establish and strengthen relationships with financial professionals
  • Developing, maintaining and executing marketing plans centered around the features and capabilities of Prudential's annuity web sites
  • Working with Annuity Marketing's Channel Marketing Managers to understand the needs of their respective channels and ensure their channels are familiar with the capabilities of the various annuity web sites
  • Creating and delivering presentations on web capabilities at sales meetings, roadshows and other events
  • Developing and executing strategies to gather quantitative and qualitative feedback from web users and assisting in the prioritization of future enhancements and initiatives
  • 80% to 85% travel in throughout the south eastern United States

JOB REQUIREMENTS:
  • High energy and a passion for the web and technology
  • Exceptional presentation skills, including 1 - 3 years presenting to varios types and sizes of audiences
  • Outstanding communications and relationship-building skills
  • Effective in communicating to all audiences, from one-on-one meetings to events attended by hundreds; from office assitants to senior vice presidents
  • 3 - 5 years experience in the financial services industry, preferably annuities
  • Solid understanding of a broad array of web technologies
  • Excellent organizational capabilities
  • Ability to function in a highly regulated, compliance conscious environment
  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
  • Excellent oral and written communications skills
  • 4 year degree in marketing or communications
  • Any canddiate applying for this positon should either have their Series 6 or be willing to take the exam to obtain the Series 6 licenses.

The Prudential Insurance Company of America and its affiliates, Newark, New Jersey are Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employers and are committed to diversity in our workforce.

Prudential is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this employment opportunity unless contracted with Staffing. Agencies must work with Staffing as the primary point of contact and follow the Prudential application process to be considered for business. Regardless of past practice, all resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Prudential via-email, the Internet or directly to hiring managers at Prudential in any form without a valid written search agreement in place for that position will be deemed the sole property of Prudential, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Prudential as a result of the referral or through other means. Note: Any search agreement entered into with Prudential before January 2004 is null and void. Search firms are essential to the recruitment and staffing efforts at Prudential and we value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. For this reason, Prudential has established and regularly maintains a preferred vendor list. Please note that even preferred vendors need to have a written search agreement signed by the Director, Recruiting Programs, Staffing at Prudential in place for the specific position in order for a fee to be paid for any candidate referrals.

To apply for this position, please copy and paste the following link into your browser address bar:

http://prudential.contacthr.com/12212356

or submit your resume and salary requirements through our homepage at

https://jobs.prudential.com/apply_online_1.asp?jobid=1435696





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