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Thrivent Financial, a Fortune 500 diversified financial services firm, seeks Area Vice Presidents to lead geographic areas focused on growing new advisors through teams and future team leaders and enabling practices who provide advice and solutions to Thrivent clients. The Area Vice President will partner closely with our COEs focused on Advisor Growth, Practice Growth, and Advice Adoption (Matrix Partners) to ensure Thrivent drives productive capacity growth by attracting, selecting, onboarding, and launching talent into Thrivent. These Area VPs will also work with experienced practices to grow their advisor capacity and their ability to serve clients. This role is responsible for driving total sales for their area that to contribute to Thrivent’s overall growth goals of capacity and total sales. The AVP must possess strong skills to execute a strategy and a proven track record of driving growth and fostering a culture of engagement. Your role will be instrumental in building brand awareness, expanding the client base, and establishing the organization as a trusted leader in the local areas. Collaborate seamlessly within a matrix organizational structure, fostering synergy across departments and leveraging diverse expertise to achieve collective goals.
Additional duties and accountabilities:
Inspire others with Thrivent’s purpose, promise and principles. The Area VP will grow exceptional leaders, connect with regional communities, build relationships, and identify and pursue growth opportunities. They will provide direct leadership for 5-10 field leaders and 50-100 Financial Advisors serving 100,000 clients.
Monitor and drive results aligned to our key performance indicators (KPIs), financial metrics, and operational benchmarks to assess performance, identify areas for improvement, and drive informed decision-making in the area.
Encourages experienced advisors to grow their practice capacity with new FAs, grow teams, and create professional practices. The AVP will collaborate well with National Practice Group (NPG) leaders to leverage advanced practices in their geographic area.
Collaborates across Thrivent’s ecosystem, National Practice Group, and our advisor continuum and channels (e.g. remote advice, TAN). The AVP forges a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Area Vice President supports Group Vice President as a key leader, growing a key strategic area and leading other Directors, FAs, and staff. She/he exhibits strong leadership and can delegate and lead a team toward reaching regional Advisor Group goals.
The Area Vice President (AVP) focuses on 5 key areas:
Leadership: In their key area(s), the AVP will attract, develop, and lead exceptional field leaders who recruit and launch new advisors on teams or as future team leaders:
Culture of Courage, Collaboration and Commitment: The AVP will create a culture that embodies Thrivent’s leadership competencies – Model the Way, Rally the Team, and Deliver Outcomes.
The AVP will collaborate with the Leader of Group Operations to effectively partner with our Centers of Excellence, help identify and spread best practices, and execute on COE playbooks/systems for capacity, productivity, and advice.
The leader will establish and foster an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional workforce engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients.
Given their focus on leadership and culture, The Area Vice President leads Thrivent’s execution on three crucial outcomes to serve our clients in their assigned area:
Builds a plan to deliver on Thrivent’s capacity growth goals in their area. Partner with other Thrivent leaders including local Community Engagement Leader, Thrivent Member Network, and other partners to develop capacity plan.
Attracts high quality, diverse talent into financial advisor roles, partnering with the Advisor Growth COE for recruiting, licensing, and training; Ensuring new advisors are placed into practices in key areas or markets.
Works closely with the Practice Directors serving their Group, the Practice COE, and National Practice Group leadership to leverage the strengths of experienced practices and advanced NPG practices into their area.
QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:
In-depth knowledge of advice, insurance products, asset/wealth management, fee-based planning, mutual funds, and securities.
Once FAs are assigned to this position, this position will require securities registrations, state insurance licenses and appointments in all states where FAs are conducting business and receiving commissions.
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