Group Underwriter

Job Posting End Date: May 09

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide: 

• Award-winning culture 

• Inclusion and diversity as a priority 

• Performance Based Incentive Plans

• Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability 

• Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!) 

• Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution 

• Mental health support 

• Career advancement opportunities 

• Student loan repayment options 

• Tuition reimbursement

• Flexible work environments 

*All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans.

And that’s just the beginning…  

With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you’re directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today! 

General Summary:

Job Profile Summary: This position reports into the Underwriting Manager or Director for the products they underwrite and is responsible for the evaluation and selection of risk (binding via contract) which ensure the profitable acquisition of new policyholders and the continued profitable retention of inforce cases within assigned authority levels and product types. This position may also assist in the training, technical development and mentoring of Associate Underwriters.

Job Description

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

• Make appropriate risk selection based on the facts presented in applications or request for insurance
• Fully document reasons and thought processes to support case decisions made
• Assist in the analyzing and identifying early and ongoing risk trends
• Develop personal credibility with sales force, key brokers, customers both external and internal customers and field management
• Support Unum/Colonial Life’s commitment to privacy and safeguarding confidential information by accurately verifying applicant’s key individual identifiers
• Assist in supporting the achievement of specific top-line, bottom-line growth
• Develop technical expertise in risk selection
• Develop selection and retention of customers through accurate risk assessment
• Deliver dependable, accurate and timely service and build relationships with all customers, consistent with the company’s commitment to achieving a distinct competitive advantage
• Process all reinstatement applications and support policy level applications from the queues as needed to support and meet departmental unit goals
• Identify efficiency improvements to include new and better ways to handle Underwriting tasks through automation and training

Job Specifications

• 4 year college degree preferred or equivalent work experience

• Consistently meet quality and quantity standards as outlined by department expectations
• Strong risk management skills
• Strong knowledge of products for which they underwrite

Industry and Product Knowledge:

• Knowledge of benefits and features of all applicable products

Technology

• Understanding of relevant enrollment platforms, their capabilities and limitations

Communication

• Effective written and spoken;
• Ability to develop negotiation and influencing skills;
• Proactively seeks guidance and knowledge from others

Financial Acumen and Risk Analysis

• Ability to understand financial concepts;
• Basic understanding of UW tools with assisted guidance in analysis;
• Makes solid, fact-based decisions within their limit;
• Awareness of key performance and sales metrics of assigned territories

Strategic Thinking

• Relies on others to determine appropriate questions

Entrepreneurship

• Involves others in decisions and key activities;
• Thoroughly documents rationale for decisions, noting appropriate levels of approval

Mentoring

• Seeks