Manager, Underwriting (Medical)
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We are seeking an Underwriting Manager (Medical) to formulate underwriting strategies, implement innovative models, and ensure compliance-driven frameworks. You will oversee team development and collaborate with sales and claims teams.
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Responsibilities
- Formulate underwriting policies ensuring risk alignment, profitability, and regulatory compliance
- Initiate process improvements integrating automation and analytics to enhance underwriting accuracy and efficiency
- Foster collaboration between underwriting, sales, and claims teams to align strategies
- Implement risk assessment frameworks incorporating market intelligence and predictive analytics
- Manage underwriting operations, oversee risk assessments, and ensure policy terms align with corporate risk appetite
- Monitor market trends and analyze underwriting performance data to refine strategies
- Enhance pricing models through data driven methodologies
- Oversee policy renewals, ensuring compliance with underwriting standards and risk mitigation protocols
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with brokers and clients
- Plan and present underwriting performance reports to leadership
- Promote adherence to regulatory frameworks and corporate risk governance policies
- Implement digital underwriting tools to streamline workflows
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Risk Management, Insurance, or related field
- Minimum 8 10 years of experience in underwriting, with at least 2 years in a senior leadership role
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Description
- To formulate underwriting strategies ensuring risk alignment with business goals.
- Implement innovative underwriting models to optimize efficiency and profitability.
- Establish compliance driven underwriting frameworks to mitigate risks and enhance financial performance.
- Oversee underwriting team development, fostering continuous improvement and alignment with industry best practices.
Strategic & Managerial Responsibilities
- Formulate underwriting policies ensuring risk alignment, profitability, and regulatory compliance while optimizing decision making for sustainable business growth.
- Initiate process improvements integrating automation and analytics to enhance underwriting accuracy, efficiency, and competitive advantage.
- Foster collaboration between underwriting, sales, and claims teams to align strategies, improve coordination, and streamline underwriting workflows.
- Implement risk assessment frameworks incorporating market intelligence, predictive analytics, and underwriting best practices to optimize portfolio performance.
Core Responsibilities
- Manage underwriting operations, oversee risk assessments and ensuring policy terms align with corporate risk appetite and industry standards.
- Monitor market trends, analyzing underwriting performance data to refine strategies and maintain competitive positioning.
- Enhance pricing models through data driven methodologies, ensuring profitable underwriting decisions and risk adjusted premium structures.
- Oversee policy renewals, ensuring compliance with underwriting standards and risk mitigation protocols while maintaining client satisfaction.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with brokers and clients, promoting business growth and customer retention.
- Plan and present underwriting performance reports, providing insights for leadership to drive strategic decision making.
- Promote adherence to regulatory frameworks, underwriting guidelines, and corporate risk governance policies.
- Implement digital underwriting tools to streamline workflows, enhance efficiency, and improve risk evaluation processes.
Quality & Excellence Management
- Establish quality benchmarks, ensuring underwriting decisions adhere to internal and external regulatory standards for risk assessment.
- Monitor underwriting performance metrics, identifying areas for improvement and implementing corrective measures to enhance decision accuracy.
- Enhance underwriting service excellence by implementing best practices to improve response time and policy issuance efficiency.
People Management Responsibilities
- Manage and motivate underwriting teams, fostering a high performance culture and continuous development mindset.
- Oversee training initiatives, ensuring underwriters develop expertise in risk assessment, compliance, and emerging underwriting techniques.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Risk Management, Insurance, or a related field.
- Master's degree in Finance, Risk Management, Insurance, or a related field.
- Certified Insurance Underwriter (CIU), or equivalent are a plus.
- Minimum 8 10 years of experience in underwriting, with at least 2 years in a senior leadership role.
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