Hybrid Senior Manager, Medical Underwriting

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About the role

  • Senior Manager leading Medical Underwriting team at Sun Life. Overseeing operations, managing underwriters, and executing strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of medical underwriters to high success.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert in medical underwriting.
  • Conduct high-dollar signoffs, ensuring accuracy and compliance
  • Support the Associate Director in implementing strategic initiatives
  • Act as a point of escalation for challenging risk decisions and client interactions.
  • Drive continuous medical and risk learning and development
  • Drive process change initiatives with the voice of the employee and the client in mind.
  • Manage a small inventory of complex medical underwriting cases
  • Liaison with Corporate Medical Underwriting director to ensure technical aspects of Group and Individual Medical Underwriting align with corporate standards.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience as an Underwriter in a Group Benefits Insurance carrier setting; Medical Underwriting experience highly desired
  • Excellent medical knowledge and a high level of risk assessment experience
  • Proven leadership skills with the ability to motivate and develop team members
  • Strong analytical and decision-making abilities
  • Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g., healthcare, business, insurance) or equivalent experience.

Benefits

  • generous vacation and sick time
  • market-leading paid family, parental and adoption leave
  • medical coverage
  • company paid life and AD&D insurance
  • disability programs
  • partially paid sabbatical program
  • 401(k) employer match
  • stock purchase options
  • employer-funded retirement account
  • flexible, inclusive and collaborative work environment

Job title

Senior Manager, Medical Underwriting

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$77,400 - $116,100 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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