Representative - Commercial Sales
- Kitchener, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
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- Working hours
- 37.5 hours/week
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Proudly Canadian. Driven by Purpose. Rooted in Care.
Join a national team where people, purpose, and community come first. Western Financial Group was named a 2025 Top Insurance Employer by Insurance Business Canada and is home to more than 2,300 team members supporting over one million customers across 200+ locations across Canada.
Insurance Sales Representative
Carve your path to success by learning from industry sales experts who sell our unique Commercial Insurance programs to independent businesses across Canada. Our high-performance team will help you enhance your discipline and help refine the skills required to achieve your goals.
Western offers our Commercial Sales representatives an Annual base Salary plus unlimited commissions, including annual and monthly bonus payouts.
Here Is What a Typical Day Looks Like
Western’s people-first culture, grounded in our guiding principles of Truthfulness, Fairness, Value, and Loyalty, is recognized across Canada and strengthened by our commitment to wellness, flexibility, and meaningful community impact.
Highlights Include
Our Human First Hiring Approach: We do not use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants. All applications are personally reviewed by Western’s Talent Acquisition Consultants. As part of our hiring process, we use standardized, scientifically validated skills assessments (nonAI), and all results are reviewed by our hiring team.
Ready to Apply?
If making a meaningful impact in your community and growing your career in a supportive, purpose-driven environment excite you, we’d love to hear from you.
Join a national team where people, purpose, and community come first. Western Financial Group was named a 2025 Top Insurance Employer by Insurance Business Canada and is home to more than 2,300 team members supporting over one million customers across 200+ locations across Canada.
Insurance Sales Representative
Carve your path to success by learning from industry sales experts who sell our unique Commercial Insurance programs to independent businesses across Canada. Our high-performance team will help you enhance your discipline and help refine the skills required to achieve your goals.
Western offers our Commercial Sales representatives an Annual base Salary plus unlimited commissions, including annual and monthly bonus payouts.
Here Is What a Typical Day Looks Like
- Support the innate desire to generate new business opportunities both independently and working as a team
- Strategize and refine your sales approach by focusing on target market prospects
- Constantly adapt your cold-calling strategies to attract new customers, set personal quotas and monitor your performance using proven KPIs,
- Possess the confidence to interact with clients while obtaining relevant information through our sophisticated sales process
- Demonstrate superior active listening skills to understand prospects' needs through building long-term, trusting relationships and turn leads as sales opportunities
- Exhibit outstanding organizational skills to efficiently navigate our CRM program
- RIBO License an asset (will be required to obtain within 3 months)
- Post-Secondary diploma or degree an asset
- Proven relationship builder with strong negotiation, selling, and closing techniques
- A resilient team player who is driven to achieve results with a positive attitude
- A hunter mindset with an entrepreneurial mentality for proactively seeking and closing new business opportunities in the market
- Hours: Full Time, Permanent (37.5 hours/week)
- Location: Office role in Kitchener
- Compensation: $40,000 salary + 40% commission on new business
- Requisition #: 83350
Western’s people-first culture, grounded in our guiding principles of Truthfulness, Fairness, Value, and Loyalty, is recognized across Canada and strengthened by our commitment to wellness, flexibility, and meaningful community impact.
Highlights Include
- 14 Paid Wellness Days, 3 weeks’ vacation, company matching savings programs, and 100% employer paid group benefits for eligible employees
- Over 1,500 volunteer hours supporting 160+ charities in 2024–2025 through the Western Financial Group Communities Foundation.
Our Human First Hiring Approach: We do not use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants. All applications are personally reviewed by Western’s Talent Acquisition Consultants. As part of our hiring process, we use standardized, scientifically validated skills assessments (nonAI), and all results are reviewed by our hiring team.
Ready to Apply?
If making a meaningful impact in your community and growing your career in a supportive, purpose-driven environment excite you, we’d love to hear from you.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Generate new commercial insurance business independently and as part of a team by targeting prospects, cold calling, and adapting sales strategies. Build trusting client relationships, identify prospects’ needs, convert leads into sales, and track performance and customer information using KPIs and the CRM.
Requirements
A RIBO license is an asset and must be obtained within three months; a post-secondary diploma or degree is also an asset. The role calls for relationship-building, negotiation, selling and closing skills, resilience, teamwork, a positive attitude, and an entrepreneurial, results-driven approach to finding new business.
Skills
- New Business Development
- Cold Calling
- Sales Strategy
- Prospecting
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Closing Sales
- Relationship Building
- Active Listening
- Client Communication
- Lead Conversion
- CRM Management
- Organization
- Performance Monitoring
- Teamwork
Benefits
- Paid Wellness Days
- Vacation
- Company Matching Savings Programs
- Employer-Paid Group Benefits
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Sales
- Finance & Accounting
- Customer Service & Support
Keywords
- Commercial Insurance
- Insurance Sales
- New Business
- Prospecting
- Cold Calling
- Target Markets
- Sales Strategy
- Sales Quotas
- Key Performance Indicators
- CRM
- Client Relationships
- Active Listening
- Lead Conversion
- Negotiation
- Sales Closing
- RIBO License
- Independent Businesses
- Entrepreneurial Mindset
- Commercial Sales