Your underwriting career here means collaboration, inclusivity, innovative thinking and so much more.
- Responsible for the overall management of Group Life & Disability underwriting (5,000 or more lives) for National Accounts.
- Includes all pre- and post-sale underwriting, profit management, renewal processing, policy issue and changes for assigned business segment.
- Demonstrates a solid, consistent technical proficiency of underwriting guidelines and underlying risk management philosophy.
- Establishes solid relationships with all internal and external business partners.
- Actively drives and participates in an assigned amount of project work and special assignments.
- Partners with the field to ensure deliver on service goals.
- Quotes new business opportunities for Core products and underwrites renewals.
- Works directly with sales representatives and brokers on new business, renewals, and service issues.
- Demonstrates advanced understanding of the elements of pricing to include risk factors, retention, and reinsurance.
- Interfaces with the sales force regarding underwriting issues and decisions
- Negotiates prices and benefits with sales representatives and brokers.
- Mentors Regional Account underwriters and other staff members
- Look to leverage additional resources around key cases to facilitate better risk management, stimulate innovative thinking, provide creative solutions and potentially different perspectives.
- Seek to understand your individual marketplace dynamics and those of the general market to maximize our chances of success.
- A customer-first mindset, putting our customers at the center of everything you do.
- A passion for making decisions through both analyzing h data and employing critical thinking skills.
- A team spirit and desire to work collaboratively.
- A financial mindset to help make the best decisions.
- Ability to own our work and following through on commitments.
- Ability to decipher and execute within a fluid and changing business environment.
- An understanding of how to build relationships and trust among diverse groups.
- The ability to advance their careers into technical OR leadership positions.
- Bachelor’s Degree strongly preferred, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- 5 + years of Group Benefits underwriting experience.
- Demonstrated success in developing and maintaining solid relationships with all internal and external business partners.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills
- An ability to think analytically about business problems, make recommendations and propose solutions.
- High energy self-starter, who is resilient and has an entrepreneurial spirit.
- Demonstration of solid time, organizational, and desk management skills
- Goal-oriented and delivers outcomes.
- Ability to challenge the status quo and compete to win.
- Superior technical knowledge and sound decision-making and analytical skills