Sales Navigator Jobs in Wethersfield, CT

Empire Today is looking for a Sales Manager to join our fast-paced, growth-oriented team. The Sales Manager is responsible for overseeing, coaching, and driving their team to achieve their sales goals and beyond.

We offer:

• Health Benefits with quick enrollment - medical, dental, and vision.
• Paid Time Off & Holiday Pay.
• Incentive Program.
• Wellness Program.
• Professional Development & Career Advancement Opportunities.
• Lots of perks.

Compensation: $85,000/year

Responsibilities:

• Manage all aspects of the market’s sales functions, including the cadence of sales activities and meetings.
• Mentor, coach, and develop sales consultants, providing daily and weekly motivation to help them close orders and improve customer experience.
• Conduct multiple weekly in-field ride-along assessments with sales consultants to help improve their performance.
• Provide leadership and daily management of Assistant Sales Managers, Sales Support Teams, and Sales Consultants.
• Manage recruitment, onboarding, education, and performance growth of sales team.
• Maintain expert-level knowledge of the in-home sales process by conducting a minimum of two live sales appointments per month.

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years’ experience managing a sales team.
• 3-5 years’ experience in a high-volume, in-home sales environment.
• Experience as a sales trainer or coach.
• Demonstrated ability to improve team performance through recruiting, retention, and education.
• Proficient in computer skills and fluency in MS Office (MS Word, Excel, Power Point, and Outlook).
• Reliable transportation, valid driver’s license, and verifiable auto insurance required.

Why Empire Today?

We empower our employees to strive for their unique goals. Within such an inclusive company with unlimited growth opportunities, how far you go is up to you.

We take care of our people. We start investing in you from day one. The perks and benefits we offer help you live well, both at work and at home.

We have an unmatched company culture. We’ve won multiple awards for employee and customer satisfaction, and we believe it all comes down to our culture of teamwork, creativity, and growth.

We’re one of the nation’s most recognizable brands. You’ll enjoy the stability that comes with a national company and a sense of pride when you’re a part of our team.

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Insurance Sales Specialist

Take Control of Your Career Today

We are looking for motivated, disciplined and goal-driven individuals to join our high-performing insurance sales team! Whether you’re an experienced sales professional or looking for a rewarding career change, we provide everything you need to succeed—leads, training, mentorship, and an unmatched commission structure.

Why Join Us?

No Cold Calling – Leverage our unique platform that targets qualified candidates seeking our diverse life insurance products, allowing you to focus more on client interactions and less on lead hunting.

Flexible Schedule – Work remotely, in person, or a combination of both. You decide!

Unlimited Earning Potential – Competitive compensation with the most attractive commission and bonus structure in the industry and residual income on renewals.

Comprehensive Training – We provide the tools, scripts, and mentorship to help you close deals quickly as well as a supportive team environment with access to seasoned mentors.

Career Growth – Advancement opportunities based on performance, not tenure.

What You’ll Do:

Get Licensed!- Must have or be willing to obtain a life insurance license (we provide guidance and support to help you get licensed).

Meet with Clients – Perform comprehensive needs assessments to understand clients' financial goals and insurance needs, presenting and explaining life insurance options to help clients make informed decisions.

Present Tailored Solutions – Deliver captivating sales presentations to individuals and groups, showcasing the benefits and features of our life insurance products.

Close Sales & Earn Big – Guide clients through the application process and celebrate each win!

Build Long-Term Relationships – Cultivate and maintain long-term relationships with clients, offering continuous support and service. Conduct regular follow-ups to ensure customer satisfaction and policy retention.

Stay Informed – Stay up to date on industry trends, competitive products, and market conditions. Utilize this knowledge to position our life insurance products effectively and provide clients with pertinent information.

What You Need to Succeed:

Strong communication and persuasive sales skills

Self-motivated and goal-oriented mindset

Ability to work independently and manage your own schedule

No experience required – we’ll help you get licensed if you’re not already!

Valid driver’s license & reliable transportation (for in-person meetings)

Compensation & Perks:

High commission structure with monthly bonuses

Residual income paid annually on policy renewals

Comprehensive training and continuous professional development.

Fast-track promotion opportunities

Title: New Product Introduction Engineer

Job Summary:

The incumbent will be responsible for project management from development through production launch for new products.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with customers, marketing, sales, manufacturing, engineering, and quality engineering to shepherd new programs from concept development to commercial launch.
• Position serves in a results-driven environment and requires a team-oriented individual.
• Develop project and manufacturing costs to support sales and marketing in business case development and program justification.
• Ability to understand customer requirements and translate those requirements into a manufacturable product design.
• Establish engineering / scientific objectives for projects.
• Coordinate tooling design, fabrication, start-up, and production ramp-up then turn over to manufacturing for new programs.
• Finalize specifications, designs, and contract reviews for specific market responsibilities.
• Ability to manage multiple projects at one time to agreed timelines and budgets.
• Independently plan and execute projects – i.e., program management
• Evaluated based on execution to the project timeline.
• Evaluated based on customer satisfaction.
• Evaluated on the successful launch of products to production.

The expectations for managing the programs are:

• Manage the phase gate process from purchase order receipt, through development and production release.
• Assemble a multi-disciplinary team (assigned by department managers) to execute project activities.
• Hold a kick-off meeting to launch the project.
• Create and maintain a project Gantt chart for schedule and critical deliverables.
• Hold review meetings as programs progress towards production.
• Participate in technical meetings.
• Manage customer meetings.
• Manage suppliers in the development phase.
• Generate presentations on project status.
• Mange the hand off of a project to production and the production sign-off of a project
• Participate with the team in a “hands on” manner: assist in writing / review of documents, assist with taking product samples, machine operation, manufacturing process review, and physical review of product quality.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• 3+ years of experience in manufacturing, product realization, or an applied industrial environment.
• Experience with automotive, aerospace, or medical manufacturing and quality systems desired. Proficiency in reading engineering prints along with an understanding of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T).
• Skilled in utilizing spreadsheets for calculations, task management, and documentation.
• Manage team priorities and open tasks.
• Able to lead team meetings.

Experience & Education Requirements:

Bachelor of Science in Engineering or ten years of experience in manufacturing and program management.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
• Must be able to access and navigate each department at the organization’s facilities.

Job Title: Client Manager, Captives

Division: Property Risks

Reports To: As per Beazley's organisation chart

Job Summary:

As a Client Manager, your primary responsibility is to develop new business with assigned large corporations, a journey from the first contact to the first transaction.

• You will excel in understanding the client risk landscape, their risk management strategy and priorities, and how Beazley's products, solutions and services can be deployed to help them reach their objectives.
• You will also demonstrate your ability to navigate the broker relationship(s), brokers being key business partners.
• Your consultative and holistic approach will help you to originate and develop new risk-financing-related business opportunities. Your focus on delivering innovative tailor-made solutions, as a superior alternative to commoditized insurance products will foster the "Customer Experience" and establish new win-win partnerships.
• Whilst you will be a first-class negotiator with the client and his/her brokers, you will also prove to be a convincing ambassador internally to obtain the buy-in of the senior management, shape, align and lead cross-functional teams for results.

Personal Skills:

• Entrepreneurial acumen - at ease in taking ownership on how to develop new business
• Excellent communicator and a skilled diplomat able to find common ground and alignment across internal (underwriting an operations teams) and external (client, brokers) boundaries to bring deals to conclusion
• Leadership - ability to motivate, stimulate and align the individual members of cross functional teams, with focus on qualitative and timely result delivery
• Consultative approach talent - excellent listener with ability to identify early potential opportunities and challenges on the marketplace
• Pragmatism / Solutions-driven - can quickly conceive realistic and practical ways to convert business opportunities into successful execution.
• Integrity and reliability - trust builder, deliver on promise, honest and transparent, always available and accessible even in adverse situations.
• Ability to simultaneously drive several transactions with different levels of maturity. Good at keeping the ball rolling, triaging and prioritizing.
• Intellectual curiosity: embrace the unknown, be ready to learn well beyond insurance and risk management, e.g. client's core business, opportunities, constraints and challenges; data & analytics new developments and applications, etc.

Professional Experience:

• Extensive proven experience of client relationship management or sales in the large corporate commercial insurance industry (insurance, broking, consulting).
• At least 2 - 3 year's experience in P&C Underwriting, preferably as a Property Underwriter
• Proficiency in capital markets instruments and corporate finance, with proven experience in engaging with CFOs and Treasurers.
• Track record of dealing with complex insurance and innovative risk financing transactions, incl. with (re)insurance captive companies and ART (alternative risk transfer) solutions.
• Broad industry network with key partners, including corporate risk managers, c-suite leaders, brokers, and insurance professionals
• Experienced in leading cross-functional teams and aligning multiple parties' interests, while always keeping the client needs at the centre.

Who We Are:

Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years' experience helping people, communities and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our mission is to inspire our clients and people with the confidence and freedom to explore, create and build - to enable businesses to thrive. Our clients want to live and work freely and fully, knowing they are benefitting from the most advanced thinking in the insurance market. Our goal is to become the highest performing sustainable specialist insurer.

Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions and contingency; covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.

Our Culture:

We have a wonderful mix of cultures, experiences, and backgrounds at Beazley with over 2,000 of us working around the world.Employee's diversity,experience and passion allow us to keep innovating and moving forward, delivering the best. We are proud of our family-feel culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that is big on collaboration, diversity of thought and personal accountability. Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our people and customers.

• Be bold

• Strive for better

• Do the right thing

Upholding these values every day has enabled us to become an innovative and responsive organization in touch with the changing world around us - our ambitious inclusion & diversity and sustainability targets are testament to this.

We are a flexible and innovative employer offering a friendly, collaborative, and inclusive working environment. We actively encourage and expect applications from all backgrounds. Our commitment to fostering a supportive and dynamic workplace ensures that every employee can thrive and contribute to our collective success.

Explore a variety of networks to assist with professional and/or personal development. Our Employee Networks include:

• Beazley RACE - Including, understanding and celebrating People of Colour

• Beazley SHE - Successful, High potential, Empowered women in insurance

• Beazley Proud - Our global LGBTQ+ community

• Beazley Wellbeing - Supporting employees with their mental wellbeing

• Beazley Families - Supporting families and parents-to-be

We encourage internal career progression at Beazley, giving you all the tools you need to drive your own career here, such as:

• Internal Pathways (helping you grow into an underwriting role)

• iLearn (our own learning & development platform)

• LinkedIn Learning

• Mentorship program

• External qualification sponsorship

• Continuing education and tuition reimbursement

• Secondment assignments

General

It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere Beazley's core values - Being Bold, Striving for Better, and Doing the Right Thing as they contribute to an internal environment of teamwork and promote a positive brand image and experience to our external customers." We also expect Beazley employees to:

• Comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct
• Undertake training on Beazley policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, the Culture & People or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via e-learning or the learning management system
• Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our customers
• Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the right products for their needs
• Comply with any specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, the Culture & People or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas. This may include, amongst others, Beazley's underwriting control standards, Beazley's claims control standards, other Beazley standards and customer relationship management
• Carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified, either through your objectives or through the learning management system. These may include membership of any Beazley committees or working groups

The Rewards

• The opportunity to connect and build long-lasting professional relationships while advancing your career with a growing, dynamic organization
• Attractive base compensation and discretionary performance related bonus
• Competitively priced medical, dental and vision insurance
• Company paid life, and short- and long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) plan with 5% company match and immediate vesting
• 22 days PTO (prorated for 1st calendar year of employment), 11 paid holidays per year, with the ability to flex the religious bank holidays to suit your religious beliefs
• Up to $700 reimbursement for home office setup
• Free in-office lunch, travel reimbursement for travel to office, and monthly lifestyle allowance
• Up to 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Up to 2.5 days paid annually for volunteering at a charity of your choice
• Flexible working policy, trusting our employees to do what works best for them and their teams

Salary for this role will be tailored to the successful individual's location and experience. The expected compensation range for this position is $150,000 - $200,000 per year plus discretionary annual bonus.

Don't meet all the requirements? At Beazley we're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't perfectly align with every requirement and qualification in the job specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or one of our other roles.

We are an equal opportunities employer and as such, we will make reasonable adjustments to our selection process for candidates that indicate that, owing to disability, our arrangements might otherwise disadvantage them. If you have a disability, including dyslexia or other non-visible ones, which you believe may affect your performance in selection, please advise us in good time and we'll make reasonable adjustments to our processes for you.

Job Summary:

The 2nd Shift Production Supervisor leads a multi-department team of CNC Operators and Set-Up Operators, in a high mix / low volume aerospace component manufacturing environment. This role is expected to balance expertise in set-up and operation of CNC machining for precision tolerance components, along with strong interpersonal skills to motivate the team to work toward common goals and objectives. Key responsibilities include managing the day-to-day priorities for multiple departments, cross-training staff on best practices to meet set-up and production run-times, optimizing processes through the elimination of waste, and leading lean continuous improvement initiatives. As a working supervisor, this role is expected to run production jobs and provide the necessary supervisory management to a small 2nd shift team.

This role is 100% in office at our plant in East Hartford, CT.

At HORST we offer a variety of benefits including but not limited to:

• Competitive PTO Package
• Paid Company Holidays
• 401K Match Program
• Medical, Dental, Vision Benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement/Assistance Program

Essential Job Duties:

• Conduct security, quality and EH&S audits to ensure the safety of employees on the second shift, and compliance with company and customer policies.
• Coordinate time-off requests, with attention to skills matrix, to ensure adequate staffing level across all disciplines of machine centers to meet production needs.
• Motivate team to meet daily, weekly and monthly goals and objectives. Identify waste and non-value-added tasks that interfere with objectives.
• Routinely measure, monitor, and publish the performance of all individuals on the team. Compare results against department standards. Complete periodic performance evaluations, and correct any issues in real time as needed, up to and including, disciplinary actions if needed.
• Host a daily GEMBA walk and serve as the primary conduit for all communications between operators and cross functional teams. Attend production meetings, and quality clinic/MRB meetings as needed. Collaborate with engineering, purchasing, production and sales teams to drive open issues to rapid closure.
• Partner with production control to stage daily and weekly priorities. Ensure jobs are completed on time, and productivity is sustained. Expedite jobs as necessary.
• Set-up and operate CNC machines according to operation sheet instructions. Provide technical support for team.
• Maintain ERP data integrity ensuring job punches match traveler package. Report any discrepancies that could impact job quantity or delivery.
• Develop and author standard work for the operation of production equipment. Coach and train teammates in best practices, enforcing safety, departmental and QMS polices, with the goal of process improvement, reduction in set up time, faster productivity rates, and improved quality.

Experience & Skills:

• Minimum of 10 years progressive career in the manufacturing of precision machined components in a regulated industry such as aerospace or medical. Previous experience in a high mix, low volume shop with an emphasis on lean manufacturing preferred.
• Working knowledge of ISO/AS quality standards, basic OSHA/EHS safety regulations, and a commitment to adherence of company policies.
• Advanced or expert machining skills in 1 or more disciplines. Swiss lathe, multi-axis turning, turning, milling, or grinding. Must be able to independently set-up and operate CNC equipment and provide the necessary training to others on shift.
• Experience leading and managing a small team toward common goals. An effective communicator that can build rapport with a diverse team. Previous team lead experience preferred.
• A willingness to take accountability for self and team, driving and inheriting the collective results of a department or team.
• High degree of urgency to drive operations at full speed. Keen sense of attention to detail to understand how to work with pace, not haste, avoiding careless mistakes.
• Strong understanding of operational metrics such as first past yield, efficiency, WIP aging, on-time-delivery, job cost, scrap rate, etc.
• Strong computer skills especially related to navigating ERP systems, job clocking systems, CAD/CAM software, and Microsoft products such Outlooks, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. Previous experience with EPICOR a plus.

Physical Demands:

Legend

N (Not applicable)

Activity is not applicable to this position

O (Occasionally)

Position requires this activity up to 33% of the time (0-2.5 hours/day)

F (Frequently)

Position requires this activity up to 66% of the time (2.5-5.5 hours/day)

C (Constantly)

Position requires this activity more than 66% of the time (5.5+ hours/day)

Lift/Carry 10-30lbs

F

Stand

F

Walk

F

Manually manipulate

F

Squat or kneel

O

Bend

O

Reach above shoulder

O

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In the aerospace industry, a Program Manager serves as the central bridge between design engineering and full-scale manufacturing. This role is high impact, requiring a strategic thinker who can navigate complex technical requirements and rigorous regulatory standards to ensure products are optimized for both scalability and efficiency.

Core Responsibilities

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• Project Lifecycle Leadership: Own the execution of new products from initial design handoff through prototyping, pilot builds, and final transition to production.
  
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Lead integrated teams across engineering, supply chain, quality, and finance to ensure alignment of program goals.
  
• Resource & Budget Management: Work with cross functional groups to develop end-to-end manufacturing plans, including detailed schedules, resource allocation, and budget oversight to maintain project costs within 5-10% of estimates.
  
• Risk & Change Mitigation: Proactively identify delivery risks, manage engineering changes through disciplined configuration control, and develop contingency plans for roadblocks.
  
• Operational Readiness: Ensure manufacturing systems, tooling, and supply chains are ready for high-volume production, including making critical "make/buy" decisions.
  
• Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary point of contact for customers, providing regular status updates on milestones, KPIs, and delivery performance.
  

Required Qualifications

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• Education: A Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Industrial, or Aerospace), Business Management, or Operations Management is typically required.
  
• Experience: At least 3-7 years of experience in aerospace manufacturing or a similar fast-paced engineering environment.
  
• Certifications: PMP (Project Management Professional) certification is frequently preferred or required to demonstrate formal methodology expertise.
  
• Technical Proficiency: Deep understanding of manufacturing processes (e.g., precision machining, assembly), ERP/MRP systems, and product lifecycle management (PLM) tools.
  
• Regulatory Knowledge: Familiarity with Aerospace Quality & Compliance standards (such as AS9100 or FAA regulations) is often essential.
  

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Aerospace NPI managers are often measured by their ability to:

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• Consistently meet Contract Ship Dates for complex projects.
  
• Achieve On-Time Delivery (OTD) and milestone completion targets.
  
• Maintain high Quality Standards and production yields during the ramp-up phase.
  

This position is currently accepting applications.

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