Financial Planning Sales Program, Internship

Financial Planning Sales Program

The Financial Planning Sales Program is a paid, 12-week early-career experience where students have an opportunity to explore the path to becoming a Northwestern Mutual Financial Representative. Through comprehensive training, personalized coaching, mentorship, and real client-facing experience, you'll develop foundational sales, relationship-building, and communication skills while exploring whether an entrepreneurial advisor career is right for you.

In this hands-on program, you'll learn how financial advisors help clients navigate important financial decisions by understanding their goals, identifying their needs, and creating personalized financial plans. You'll build a go-to-market strategy and business plan, conduct client conversations about financial planning, and help guide individuals toward insurance and wealth solutions tailored to their needs. Along the way, you'll learn how advisors earn trust, develop lasting client relationships, and recommend insurance, investment, and wealth solutions that support a client's broader financial goals.

Unlike many traditional internships, this program is built around real responsibility and practical application. You'll learn through experiencing and doing, not just observing. Our goal is to provide a depth of experience that helps you build valuable professional skills, understand what it takes to grow a business, and make a meaningful impact in the lives of others. By the end of the program, you'll have a clearer understanding of the advisor career path and the opportunity to determine whether it's the right fit for your future.

Who This Early-Career Program Is For

We're looking for students who are:

• Currently enrolled full-time in college (juniors and seniors preferred)
• Interested in financial planning, business development, entrepreneurship, or sales
• Comfortable building relationships and starting conversations with others
• Motivated by personal growth and professional development
• Able to independently manage priorities, responsibilities, and accountability
• Curious about exploring the financial advisor career through direct experience rather than observation alone

Eligible participants may be considered for a full-time financial advisor role following graduation. Participants may also be considered for another role within their local network office.

About Northwestern Mutual

For over 165 years, we have helped our clients spend their lives living through comprehensive and innovative financial planning. We combine the expertise of our financial professionals with a personalized digital experience and industry-leading products to give our clients the ability to successfully navigate their financial lives.

Our tailored, integrated approach includes multiple financial strategies—insurance, investments, and annuities—built to reinforce each other, keeping our clients consistently on track to meet goal after goal. We lead with unmatched financial strength and access to the best products and services for our clients.

As a company, we value an inclusive workplace where everyone's unique viewpoints bring new successes. We strive to create teams that reflect our customers and communities, fostering an environment where all employees are welcomed, valued, and heard.

Why Join Northwestern Mutual:

• 2026 Way Up Top Internship Program
• Top 10 US Independent Broker-Dealers
• Unsurpassed financial strength with total company assets of $399 billion
• Fortune 500® Company:
  No. 109 (as of December 2025)
• 2026 Training MVP Award winner

Northwestern Mutual is the marketing name for The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company (NM) and its subsidiaries, including Northwestern Long Term Care Insurance Company (NLTC), Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC (NMIS) (Investment Brokerage Services), a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, and member of FINRA and SIPC, and Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company® (NMWMC) (Investment Advisory Services), a federal savings bank. NM and its subsidiaries are in Milwaukee, WI.

Northwestern Mutual Financial Representatives are independent contractors whose income is based solely on…