Chief RA Underwriter (Senior Underwriting Business Consultant)

Regional Account Chief UW GB - UO07EE

Sr Business Consultant - BB07AE

We’re determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals – and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future.          

A new role can expand your knowledge and your network, and help you learn more about our business. If you think this opportunity is a fit for your career you should apply. If you are not sure you can have a conversation with your manager. 

The Underwriting Senior Business Consultant position in Group Reinsurance Plus (GRP) is a dynamic position involving the application of product knowledge and technical underwriting skills to the best practices, training and quality management provided for the benefit of GRP and its reinsurance clients.  This position involves partnership with key underwriting and business contacts both internally and externally to deliver creative, yet practical solutions. 

Your career here means leveraging your previous underwriting expertise in your new Shared Services role through collaboration, inclusivity, innovative thinking and so much more. Here, doing things the way they’ve always been done isn’t a part of the job.  Here, you’ll be putting your creative insights to work with the underwriting team and leaders, having a seat at the table with key decision makers. And you’ll have any number of opportunities for your career to grow in whatever direction you choose. 

We’ll Be a Good Match if You Have:

• A customer-first mindset, putting our customers at the center of everything you do 

• A passion for making decisions through both analyzing data and employing critical thinking skills. 

• A team spirit and desire to work collaboratively. 

• A financial mindset to help make the best decisions. 

• Ability to own our work and follow through on commitments. 

• Ability to decipher and execute within a fluid and changing business environment. 

• An understanding of how to build relationships and trust among diverse groups. 

• The ability to advance your career into a technical OR leadership position. 

Responsibilities 

Best Practices

• Act as the gatekeeper of GRP best practices to ensure new guidelines, process and procedures, and related underwriting bulletin articles have been fully vetted, focusing predominantly on experience rated pricing and other “large” case topics. 

• Work closely with GRP Underwriting Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and GB Underwriting Best Practices to ensure that GRP’s underwriting policies and procedures are reflective of current practices, where deemed to be applicable.

• Draft, peer review and publish new or revised content for our internal underwriting SharePoint sites and external underwriting manuals.  

Training and Education

• Develop, deliver and maintain internal and client company training curriculum, including robust and pertinent case studies, training agreements, knowledge assessments and course evaluations, focusing primarily on the pricing protocols, risk assessment, financial analysis and other topics unique to experience rated and manually rated business for Group Life, Disability and Supplemental Health.

Quality Management 

• Perform internal quality management reviews for group life and disability, including rate development, policies and procedures, proposal and presale analysis memos, and provide thoughtful insight as to an individual’s areas of excellence and opportunity.   

• Perform presale quality management reviews for reinsurance clients that perform their own underwriting as well as other special studies, audits and training reviews to gain insight into GRP or client underwriting practices. 

• Develop and work with others to execute on action plans designed to improve the quality of GRP and client underwriting based on quality management results, such as enhanced best practices, training, revised underwriting authority limits, etc.

Strategic Reserve 

• Act as strategic reserve and underwrite new business quotes, renewals and sold case submissions as requested during periods of high demand or limited capacity on other teams.

Other

• Lead and/or actively participate in various functional or cross-functional initiativ