Asset & Wealth Management, Head of Annuity Sales, Vice President – Albany

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Goldman Sachs Ayco’s Insurance Group is seeking a dynamic leader with demonstrated success navigating a continuously evolving environment, driving employee engagement by fostering team culture and collaboration, and managing a team of insurance experts who promote client-centric annuity solutions to address clients’ financial planning requirements.

In this role, you will collaborate with senior leaders across various areas of the firm including product, agency, technology, compliance, marketing and legal. You will be responsible for executing short- and long-term business strategies to drive growth by delivering competitive insurance solutions, recognizing annuity opportunities, solving complex issues, and expanding business relationships both internally and externally.

Working alongside Human Capital Management on recruitment, performance assessments, and training initiatives is integral. Additionally, coaching and enhancing the expertise of insurance professionals are vital components of this role, alongside financial management tasks like budgeting and reporting.

Join us in shaping impactful insurance solutions and driving client success within a collaborative and dynamic environment.

Across Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world to reach their financial goals. Our advisor-led wealth management businesses provide financial planning, investment management, banking, and comprehensive advice to a wide range of clients, including ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees. Our consumer business provides digital solutions for customers to better spend, borrow, invest, and save.

Across Wealth Management, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and customers, and leading-edge technology, data, and design.

Goldman Sachs Ayco partners with Fortune 1000 companies to design and implement tailored financial planning programs for their workforce-leveraging the 50-year heritage of Ayco and the comprehensive resources of Goldman Sachs to meet the evolving needs of their employees. Ayco believes companies best serve their stakeholders and the greater economy when their employees’ financial lives are clear, understood and in their control.

Ayco advisors and technical subject matter experts help clients achieve their personal financial goals through education and guided implementation across seven key financial disciplines, including insurance planning.

The Wealth Strategies (WSG) Goldman Sachs Ayco’s Wealth Strategies group provides risk management solutions in support of advisors and clients across all segments of Goldman’s Wealth Management business. Our planning focused practice currently has 56 team members operating in 7 wealth management offices across the country.

• Maximize opportunities for your team to increase sales of annuity products by developing strong partnerships with Financial Advisors and clients.
• Partner with internal departments to leverage product sales and generate new business opportunities.
• Develop and execute a strategic business plan to increase sales growth to meet financial goals.
• Cultivate relationships with insurance providers to enable product comparisons, alternate solutions, and funding scenarios, and identify cross-selling opportunities.
• Grow and manage a consistent and continuous new business pipeline through educating advisors and clients on products and processes.
• Gather and utilize market intelligence to drive sales by identifying trends and implementing corrective action where necessary.
• Maintain a thorough working knowledge of GS and our providers’ products, strategies, systems, processes, and technologies.
• Ensure team members adhere to compliance and regulatory standards for life and annuity products.
• Monitor and improve team performance through quantitative and qualitative measures, collaboration, mentorship and coaching.

Our U.S. Wealth Management business includes the following…