Manulife

Senior Underwriting Consultant, Research & Development

Manulife

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Arizona, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania

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Salary

💰 $90,225 - $162,405 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Research, analyze, and make recommendations on the effectiveness of new data sources and underwriting techniques.
  • Collaborate with teams to develop innovative, data-driven underwriting solutions and capabilities that ensure seamless experience for a broad customer base.
  • Support product development work for targeted initiatives.
  • Analyze underwriting data through various studies and claims experience if applicable.
  • Prioritize project work, focusing on generating the most value for the business.
  • Keep abreast of external factors that may affect underwriting (e.g. medical and technical advancements, industry rules, compliance and regulations).
  • Keep abreast of competitor actions and industry trends
  • Work with internal stakeholders to recommend and implement underwriting guideline changes.
  • Work with external vendors, partners and technologies that support business capabilities.
  • Apply innovative thinking and creative problem-solving to address complex underwriting challenges.
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of underwriting practices and procedures.
  • Clearly communicate results and progress to senior management.

Requirements

  • Knowledge and experience of underwriting risk assessment - medical, non-medical, financial.
  • Experience with tech implementations, communicating requirements, and testing.
  • Highly engaged: able to self-manage work, problem solve, and execute projects under deadline pressure.
  • Excellent interpersonal, oral and written (technical) communication skills and comfort presenting to senior leaders on technical topics.
  • Ability to convey complex underwriting concepts to diverse stakeholders.
  • Exceptional collaboration skills, demonstrated through experience working with various technical audiences and across multiple functions such as actuaries, medical, data scientists, operations, legal and compliance teams.
  • Excellent MS Office Skills, Excel, Powerpoint, Teams and web tools.
  • Undergraduate and/or post graduate degree in science, medical or related field or minimum of 5-10 years’ experience in underwriting and/or research experience.
  • FALU/FLMI a plus.
  • Ability to work across virtual teams and sites and in open and collaborative workspaces.
  • Occasional travel may be required.