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
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