Underwriting Director
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Underwriting Director leading underwriting production and team development for a significant life insurance company in the United States. Overseeing large cases and implementing innovative underwriting practices and solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the Underwriting Director, reporting directly to the Associate (VP) Chief Underwriter and leading an underwriting team responsible for underwriting production.
- Oversee our largest life insurance applications, ensuring thorough and accurate assessments.
- Make underwriting decisions within approval limits up to $20,000,000.
- Work closely with Underwriting, New Business and Distribution teams to ensure cohesive operations.
- Identify trends/issues and offer solutions on issues, including escalations to meet customer needs while ensuring alignment to business strategies.
- Coach and mentor individual underwriters. Accountable for underwriter development and career progression.
- Participate in department initiatives, assisting in recommending process improvements to enhance productivity, profitability, growth and quality.
- Manage retention, autobind and jumbo arrangements.
- Maintain profitable mortality experience.
- Champion the responsible adoption of AI in underwriting, ensuring appropriate governance, quality controls, and integration into underwriting workflows.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of life underwriting experience
- College degree required, equivalent work experience in life underwriting may be considered
- Certifications FLMI, FALU and ACS designations or current coursework toward earning certificates
- Extensive large case experience, working routinely on cases $20,000,000+
- Strong leadership capability with experience coaching, mentoring, and developing underwriting talent
- Highly developed knowledge of financial and other non-medical underwriting factors including deep expertise in advanced financial underwriting concepts
- Strong knowledge of reinsurance marketplace with full understanding of retention, automatic, jumbo and reinsurance arrangements
- Experience in an accelerated underwriting environment including working with various data sources
- Commitment to remaining current on emerging underwriting technologies, AI trends, and industry best practices.
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
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