Senior Manager, Medical Underwriting
Sun Life
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Portland • Connecticut • Maine • United States
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Salary
💰 $77,400 - $116,100 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead a team of medical underwriters to high success.
- Serve as a subject matter expert in medical underwriting.
- Conduct high-dollar signoffs, ensuring accuracy and compliance
- Support the Associate Director in implementing strategic initiatives
- Act as a point of escalation for challenging risk decisions and client interactions.
- Drive continuous medical and risk learning and development
- Drive process change initiatives with the voice of the employee and the client in mind.
- Manage a small inventory of complex medical underwriting cases
- Liaison with Corporate Medical Underwriting director to ensure technical aspects of Group and Individual Medical Underwriting align with corporate standards.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as an Underwriter in a Group Benefits Insurance carrier setting; Medical Underwriting experience highly desired
- Excellent medical knowledge and a high level of risk assessment experience
- Proven leadership skills with the ability to motivate and develop team members
- Strong analytical and decision-making abilities
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
- Bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g., healthcare, business, insurance) or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- generous vacation and sick time
- market-leading paid family, parental and adoption leave
- medical coverage
- company paid life and AD&D insurance
- disability programs
- partially paid sabbatical program
- 401(k) employer match
- stock purchase options
- employer-funded retirement account
- flexible, inclusive and collaborative work environment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
medical underwritingrisk assessmentcomplianceprocess changehigh-dollar signoffsanalytical skillsdecision-making
Soft skills
leadershipteam motivationcommunicationdevelopmentclient interaction