Sr. Underwriting Consultant – Large Case

Job Summary

Responsible for providing facultative underwriting risk assessment to clients as assigned, within time service and quality standards as defined by SCOR Global Life Americas. The Senior Underwriting Consultant – Large Case must also provide underwriting consulting advice for client companies in a timely and professional manner. Projects, other facultative case maintenance and client communication is required.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Apply sophisticated underwriting procedures to assess complex and/or medical and large case financial risks for facultative clients. 
• Interact with clients to secure specialized or supplementary information; develops alternative solutions when routine/usual methods do not work and provides excellent customer service through understanding and innovation.
• Communicate with all levels of client’s underwriters and other company management personnel, explaining the reasoning and theory which surrounds an underwriting impairment, problem and/or decision
• Keep up to date with current medical topics, current financial documentation and business environment as well as changing / new financial evaluation concepts and measures, data sources and their use in case underwriting
• Function effectively and professionally within a team with little supervision
• Understand and effectively implement all SCOR Global Life Americas retention and retrocession schedules
• Project work is required, to enhance SCOR underwriting knowledge and stay on top of client requests
• Work on SOLEM guidance, underwriting data sets and research are other aspects of the position
• May perform other duties as required.
• Other duties as required for the position.

Required experience & competencies

Experience: 

• Minimum 7 – 10 years current, active life underwriting experience
• Minimum $5,000,000 case approval authority for the past three years – all ages and ratings
• Currently handling a regular new business caseload
• Ability to read (interpret) EKG’s (e.g., screen normal from abnormal tracings, applying normal results to the history)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated successful track record working with field force and/or sales representatives and when applicable, client company underwriters
• Demonstrated meaningful progress toward completion of ALU education program
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with all levels within SGLA
• Ability to adapt to change routinely and support the goals of the underwriting unit and the company through teamwork and additional hours as required
• PC literacy in Word Office products and Underwriting systems
• Regular attendance is a minimum requirement of the role although working from a remote office can be an option if approved by the immediate supervisor

Personal Competencies:

• Problem Solving - Identifies and analyses issues, proposes and rolls out relevant solutions after appropriate approvals.
• Communication - Knows how and when to develop/sustain a message and/or an idea (speaking and writing), uses the right tools to present information.
• Resilience - Demonstrates an ability to step back when facing difficult situations and to bounce back after a failure.
• Decision Making - Makes decisions and/or rolls out the decisions considering all available information.
• Accountability - Alerts, raises the critical points when needed, shoulders and corrects his/her decisions and shows responsibility regarding cost management.
• Commitment - Makes effort to bring his/her skills and uses his/her expertise to contribute to the success of the Group.
• Curiosity - Demonstrates an appetite for learning and developing his/her-self in his/her field of expertise, can develop new practices and methods in relation with his/her day-to-day work.

Digital Competencies:

• Ability to employ information: identify, recognize, record and store digital information to facilitate retrieval and use
• Ability to access information: locate, select, and retrieve digital information
•  Ability to determine dat