Are you looking for a supportive and collaborative workplace with great benefits and clear career development You've come to the right place.
Why choose Manulife
- Competitive Salary packages and performance bonuses
- Day 1 HMO + FREE coverage for your dependents (inclusive of same-sex partners)
- Retirement savings benefit
- Rewarding culture that values wellness and well-being
- Performance Bonus
- Global network of industry experts
- Extensive training resources
Job Description
We're looking for a Group Underwriter to join our team! This role is responsible for analyzing group characteristics, benefits, and plan design to appropriately price and win new group business or retain existing business. This role will involve analyzing rating information, assessing the group's specific risk characteristics, and delivering clear, accurate, and complete quotes to our Manulife Account Executives.
Have the skills and knowledge for the job Learn more about the opening below!
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyze group characteristics, benefits, and plan designs
- Analyze premium and claims information to appropriately price new business
- Provide underwriting decisions through clear verbal and written communications
- Conduct constructive negotiations utilizing underwriting judgment and guidelines.
- Evaluate and act on risk propositions.
- Accurately price new and existing business opportunities
- Provide value-added underwriting and benefit recommendations to maximize clients group benefit spend
Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor's degree holder, preferably in applied mathematics and statistics
- Certifications: CEBS, GBA certification is encouraged and recommended
- Experience: At least one-year relevant experience in group underwriting
- Understanding of the Group Insurance market, products, and services
- Excellent comprehension, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to make well-balanced decisions that take effective risk management, financial discipline, and customer needs into account
- Motivated self-starter and able to work independently in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrated ability to produce quality materials within tight timeframes and simultaneously manage multiple priorities
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills with proficiency in Excel (data manipulation such as pivot tables) and Word
- Work Arrangement: Amenability to work in a hybrid setup and on a night shift schedule.
Soft Skills:
- Strategic Decision-Making
- Negotiating and Influencing
- Applying Technical Expertise
- Excellent comprehension, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills - ability to compose grammatically correct, concise, and accurate paragraphs or requests and ability to determine errors
- Ability to proactively respond to situations (escalations) - decision-making & influencing others to act in the best interest of the clients
- Ability to multi-task and handle different inquiries
- Ability to manage short-term and near-term workflow targets
Let's make every day better together. Learn about our opportunities at JOBS.MANULIFE.COM
