Lead underwriter
Lead underwriter
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Job Description
- Leadership & Team Management: Lead mentor and manage a team of health insurance underwriters ensuring performance compliance and professional development.
- Risk Assessment: Oversee the evaluation and underwriting of individual and group health insurance policies assessing medical risks and determining coverage eligibility.
- Policy Formulation: Develop update and implement underwriting policies and guidelines specific to health insurance to ensure consistency and accuracy in decisionmaking.
- Portfolio Management: Manage the health insurance underwriting portfolio ensuring a balanced risk profile and contributing to the company s financial performance.
- Crossfunctional Collaboration: Work closely with actuarial claims sales and compliance teams to support product development pricing strategies and service improvements.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all underwriting practices adhere to local and international health insurance regulations as well as company policies.
- Client Relations: Engage with brokers corporate clients and healthcare providers to negotiate terms resolve issues and maintain strong business relationships.
- Data & Trend Analysis: Analyze claims and underwriting data to identify trends optimize underwriting processes and recommend changes to risk models.
- Process Improvement: Drive improvements in underwriting processes by implementing technology automating tasks and ensuring operational efficiency.
- Training & Development: Design and deliver training programs to enhance the skills of junior underwriters ensuring consistent application of underwriting standards and industry best practices
- Experience: Minimum of 10 years in health insurance underwriting with at least 5 years in a leadership or team management role.
- Health Insurance Expertise: Indepth knowledge of health insurance products risk assessment for medical coverage and the impact of health trends on underwriting.
- Team Management: Proven experience leading and managing underwriting teams with a focus on coaching performance management and developing highperforming teams.
- Regulatory Knowledge: Strong understanding of health insurance regulations industry standards and compliance requirements.
- Analytical Skills: Ability to assess complex health risks analyze medical histories and make sound underwriting decisions using datadriven insights.
- Communication: Excellent communication skills for articulating underwriting decisions and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.
- Technology Proficiency: Familiarity with health insurance underwriting software data analytics tools and medical coding systems.
- Attention to Detail: High level of accuracy and attention to detail in reviewing health information claims data and policy applications.
- Certification in health insurance underwriting or related fields (e.g. Health Insurance Associate HIA).
- Experience with both individual and group health insurance products.
- Knowledge of reinsurance in health insurance is a plus.
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Employment Type
Full Time
Company Industry
Key Skills
- Loan Processing
- Computer Skills
- Fraud
- Math
- Banking
- Pricing
- Analysis Skills
- Fair Housing Regulations
- Underwriting
- Financial Analysis
- negotiation
- Phone Etiquette
