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Job overview
Northwestern Mutual seeks motivated, coachable individuals to join as Financial Advisors, offering hybrid or remote work in the Chicagoland area. The role involves building relationships, understanding client goals, creating personalized financial plans, and growing a personal client practice while receiving training, mentorship, and licensing support.
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Full job description
HYBRID/REMOTE Chicagoland based role - Calling all career changers!
Build a Business. Create Your Future.
Looking for more than your next job?
Join Northwestern Mutual as a Financial Advisor and build a long-term career helping individuals, families, and business owners achieve financial security—while growing a business of your own.
No Financial Services Experience Required.
Many successful advisors come from sales, business development, banking, education, hospitality, recruiting, healthcare, military, and other relationship-focused careers. If you're motivated, coachable, and enjoy building relationships, we'll provide the training, mentorship, and licensing support to help you succeed.
What You'll Do
- Build relationships through your network and local community
- Understand clients' financial goals
- Develop personalized financial plans
- Provide guidance on insurance, investments, retirement, and wealth planning
- Grow and manage your own client practice
What We Provide
- Comprehensive onboarding and training
- One-on-one mentorship and ongoing coaching
- Licensing support and reimbursement for your first four licenses
- Industry-leading planning tools and technology
- Continuous professional development
Who We're Looking For
- Entrepreneurial and self-motivated
- Strong relationship builders
- Coachable and goal-oriented
- Passionate about helping others
- Interested in building a long-term business
Compensation
This is an entrepreneurial opportunity with performance-based earnings and long-term income potential. Eligible advisors may receive:
- Up to $36,000 in first-year onboarding support
- Performance-based commissions
- Renewal (residual) income
- Bonus opportunities
- Licensing reimbursement and expense allowances
Median earnings for Financial Advisors in Years 1–5: approximately $101,265 annually, with significant long-term growth potential.
Benefits
Eligible advisors receive medical, dental, vision, life, disability, retirement and pension benefits, parental benefits, and ongoing professional development.
Work Environment
Based in our Lombard, IL office, this role offers mentorship and collaboration as you build your practice, with increasing flexibility as your business grows.
Why Northwestern Mutual?
For over 165 years, Northwestern Mutual has helped advisors build successful businesses while making a meaningful impact in their communities. If you're looking for an entrepreneurial career with unlimited growth potential, we'd love to hear from you.
Ready to Learn More?
If you're excited by the opportunity to build a business, help others achieve their financial goals, and create a career with long-term growth potential, we'd love to connect. Anyone can apply, no need for a previous experience as a Financial Advisor.
All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be legally authorized to work in the United States and are required to have U.S. residency at the time of application.
If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application, or at any point in the hiring process, please contact us at [email protected].
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