Underwriting Consultant, Allied Health – Large and Complex
CNA Insurance
Senior Underwriting Consultant, Research & Development
Manulife
full-time
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Location: Arizona, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $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.
