National Accounts Underwriter

National Accounts Underwriter

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree strongly preferred, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• 2+ years of Group Benefits underwriting experience
• Demonstrated success in developing and maintaining solid relationships with all internal and external business partners
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills
• An ability to think analytically about business problems, make recommendations and propose solutions
• High energy self-starter, who is resilient and has an entrepreneurial spirit
• Demonstration of solid time, organizational, and desk management skills
• Goal-oriented and delivers outcomes
• Ability to challenge the status quo and compete to win
• Superior technical knowledge and sound decision-making and analytical skills

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the overall management of Group Life & Disability underwriting (5,000 or more lives) for National Accounts
• Includes all pre and post-sale underwriting, profit management, renewal processing, policy issue and changes for assigned business segment
• Demonstrates a solid, consistent technical proficiency of underwriting guidelines and underlying risk management philosophy
• Establishes solid relationships with all internal and external business partners
• Actively drives and participates in an assigned amount of project work and special assignments
• Partners with the field to ensure deliver on service goals
• Quotes new business opportunities for Core products and underwrites renewals
• Works directly with sales representatives and brokers on new business, renewals, and service issues
• Demonstrates advanced understanding of the elements of pricing to include risk factors, retention, and reinsurance
• Interfaces with the sales force regarding underwriting issues and decisions
• Negotiates prices and benefits with sales representatives and brokers
• Look to leverage additional resources around key cases to facilitate better risk management, stimulate innovative thinking, provide creative solutions and potentially different perspectives
• Seek to understand your individual marketplace dynamics and those of the general market to maximize our chances of success

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 following 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 their careers into technical OR leadership positions