Regional Product and Underwriting Senior Manager - Medical & Life (SME and Retail)
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About the Role
We are seeking a Regional Product and Underwriting Senior Manager to lead SME and Retail health insurance products across the GCC. The role involves managing a team, product development, portfolio management, governance, and maximizing sales and marketing opportunities.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the SME and Retail business unit and the regional corporate product offering for Health insurance lines of business
- Manage existing products approved and offered by the company on healthcare line of business
- Partner with Pricing, Actuarial and Operations teams to set strategy for sustainable offering
- Define pricing policy in partnership with Pricing team, managing terms and conditions and legal forms
- Keep up to date with changes in law or regulatory requirements and recommend changes
- Examine non compliance of benefit adjudication and ensure compliance overall
- Devise and document appropriate underwriting practices, prepare policy wordings
- Monitor SME and Retail Health performance versus forecasts, analyze discrepancies and identify trends
- Support development and implementation of new IT tools and platform integration
- Analyze SME & Retail market and define opportunities in all GCC countries
- Pilot new marketing strategies supported by new product offering solutions
- Support digitalization initiatives related to this portfolio of products
Requirements
- Degree/professional certification, preferably with a technical background (Math, Statistics, Business Administration, Finance)
- 5 10 years in healthcare insurance
- Strong knowledge of Health insurance products
- Underwriting and/or Product experience
- Advanced Excel, PowerPoint and Word skills
- Excellent communication skills (written & verbal)
- 5 years Managerial experience/business unit expertise (desirable)
- UAE and ROG market experience (desirable)
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Job Purpose
- To lead the GIG Gulf SME and Retail products and portfolios for Health through active management and innovation to develop these product lines across the region.
- Manage a team of Underwriters and Product Managers servicing the above portfolios, setting guidelines, governance and processes.
- Responsible for product development, identifying, analyzing client needs, impact analysis, regulatory registration, product design inclusive of SOP, collaterals, system development and sales training.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the SME and Retail business unit and the regional corporate product offering for Health insurance lines of business.
- Management of the existing products approved and offered by the company on healthcare line of business.
- Partner with Pricing, Actuarial and Operations teams as needed to set the strategy to keep a sustainable offering.
- Define pricing policy in partnership with Pricing team, managing terms and conditions and legal forms for new and existing product per country.
- Keep up to date with changes in the law or the requirements of any regulatory body.
- Examine any non compliance of benefit adjudication and ensure compliance overall.
- Devise and document appropriate underwriting practices, prepare policy wordings, and other documentation.
- Monitor the SME and Retail Health performance versus forecasts, analyze any discrepancies and identify trends.
- Support development and implementation of new IT tools and platform integration.
- Analyze SME & Retail market and define clear opportunities in all GCC countries.
- Pilot new marketing strategies supported by new product offering solutions.
- Support digitalization initiatives related to this portfolio of products.
Role Requirements
- Degree/ professional certification, preferably with a technical background (Math, Statistics, Business Administration, Finance)
- 5 10 years in healthcare insurance
- Strong knowledge of Health insurance products
- Underwriting and/or Product experience
- Advanced Excel, PowerPoint and Word skills
- Excellent communication skills (written & verbal)
- 5 years Managerial experience/business unit expertise (desirable)
- Technical and analytical skills, with a high level of numeracy
- UAE and ROG market experience (desirable)
- Knowledge of pricing tools and/or reporting software (i.e. Power BI) (desirable)
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