Objectives: FF4L's Retirement Consultants overarching objectives are to produce an unparalleled education experience for advisor and plan sponsor clients. This education experience begins at the first point of contact with advisors and plan sponsors and is a continuous process of understanding needs through reporting the results and outcomes of our work. Education is delivered both in-person and virtually, and FF4L's Retirement Professionals should expect to travel up to 25% of the time. Retirement Consultants will take ownership for the overall experience from beginning to end. Travel is expected for this role.
Our Standards:
Our overall standard is "industry leading." Our goal is to provide the very best experience in the financial wellness and retirement plan education space. As such, our people must display:
Professional expertise
Relationship management skills
An ability to understand client goals & objective and tailor solutions around them
Tremendous written and oral communication skills
An ability to motivate others to take action
Innovation & Creativity
An ability to synthesize and present data in a clear manner
There are three critical areas that Retirement Consultants must demonstrate professional proficiency:
Meeting Experience
Participant Engagement
Reporting & Stewardship
Meeting Experience
The meeting experience starts with advisor and plan sponsor engagement and is a continuous process through reporting and stewardship. The component parts to delivering an industry leading meeting experience are:
Understanding the goals and objectives of clients
Developing a tailored communication plan that will assure high levels of participant engagement
Developing meeting materials that are industry leading in terms of quality
Delivering industry leading presentations
Utilizing the planning & communications tools FF4L has developed
Reporting to clients in a professional & high-quality manner during the education process
Providing insightful, relevant stewardship reporting at the conclusion of each education cycle
Owning the relationship management at the centralized and location champion levels
Participant Engagement
Retirement Consultants must demonstrate an ability to gain participant engagement through our education and coaching process. Participant engagement includes:
Initial meeting attendance
Active engagement of Participants
Risk Assessment
Active Investment Selection
Enrollment in Financial Wellness Services
Conversion of Unengaged to Engaged
Reporting & Stewardship
It is critical that Retirement Consultants provide quality reporting on their work to clients so that they clearly understand both our activities and the impact of these activities. Reporting and stewardship includes:
Communicating effectively with clients in the planning of education and financial wellness services
Effectively planning our education services with clients (centralized and local champions)
Confirming in writing after each interaction with clients
Utilizing all tools for communicating with plan sponsors on our activity during the education delivery process
Effective follow through from all one-on-one interactions with Participants
Stewardship reporting to the plan sponsor after each education cycle that communicates
Overall activity during the cycle
Results and impact from our education services
Insights on client needs moving forward
Suggested plans for next education cycle
Relationship Management
Retirement Consultants will take ownership for the overall experience from beginning to end. They will work closely with the advisor to both act as an extension of his/her practice and will work to build additional business opportunities with advisors' prospects and clients. FF4L's Retirement Consultants will also work closely with plan sponsors to continue to customize the education plan.
Education/Experience
We provide extensive training that allows us to focus on attracting talented people and develop their skills to deliver world class client service