Assistant Vice President – Chief Life Underwriting

🕒 3 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $124.2k - $175.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Horace Mann

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1945

💸 Finance

📚 Education

Insurance • Finance • Education

Horace Mann is a company that provides comprehensive insurance and financial solutions tailored for educators and public sector workers. The company offers a wide range of insurance options including auto, home, renters, liability, life, and supplemental insurance. In addition to insurance, Horace Mann provides retirement and financial strategies, such as 529 College Savings Plans, investment management, and student loan solutions designed specifically to help educators. They are committed to supporting educators through various programs, workshops, webinars, and partnership initiatives that aid in professional and personal financial wellness. Horace Mann is recognized for its strong financial stability and ethical governance practices, ensuring security and privacy for its nearly one million educator clients across the nation.

📋 Description

• Serve as the highest underwriting authority for the Life business, providing strategic leadership for underwriting philosophy, risk selection, mortality management, governance, and operational effectiveness. • Establish and maintain underwriting guidelines, authorities, and risk selection practices that balance growth objectives with sound mortality management and regulatory compliance. • Provide strategic direction on complex underwriting cases and emerging underwriting issues. • Champion the evolution of the underwriting function through the evaluation and implementation of innovative underwriting methodologies, technologies, and external data sources. • Lead initiatives involving accelerated underwriting, predictive analytics, and digital capabilities that improve customer and agent experiences. • Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance underwriting efficiency, consistency, and decision quality. • Ensure timely and accurate processing and issuance of Life insurance applications. • Monitor, enhance, and implement underwriting policies, procedures, and operational standards with clearly defined accountability. • Ensure compliance with internal underwriting guidelines, regulatory requirements, and legal directives. • Support organizational initiatives that improve underwriting quality, service levels, and operational performance. • Partner closely with Life & Retirement leadership—particularly Product Strategy and Life New Business Operations—to support product innovation and business growth. • Collaborate with Distribution, Compliance, Finance, Technology, reinsurers, and vendor partners to optimize underwriting capabilities and customer outcomes. • Build and maintain strong relationships with agents, field leaders, and business partners, serving as a trusted underwriting advisor. • Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing underwriting organization. • Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation. • Support succession planning, talent development, and performance management for underwriting staff. • Support enterprise strategic and tactical initiatives through effective planning, implementation, and organizational change management. • Influence business decisions through underwriting expertise, market insight, and risk management leadership.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience. • 10+ years of progressively responsible Life Insurance underwriting experience. • 3+ years of leadership experience overseeing underwriting teams, programs, or operations. • Demonstrated expertise developing, implementing, and managing underwriting guidelines, authorities, and risk selection practices. • Significant experience evaluating and implementing accelerated and automated underwriting methodologies. • Proven ability to lead organizational change, influence stakeholders, and drive adoption of new underwriting capabilities and technologies. • Strong understanding of mortality management, underwriting operations, and regulatory compliance. • Excellent communication, relationship-building, and collaboration skills.

🏖️ Benefits

• Normal office environment with remote work-from-home flexibility based on business needs. • Core business hours with flexibility to meet business objectives. • Periodic travel may be required.