Vice President, Underwriting – Life, Absence, Disability

🕒 July 30

🌲 Oregon – Remote

🌲 Oregon – Remote

💵 $211.3k - $357.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Vice President

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The Standard

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1906

🏥 Healthcare

⚖️ Legal

💼 Consulting

Healthcare • Legal • Consulting

The Standard is a comprehensive provider of insurance, retirement, and investment products and services, targeting individuals, families, businesses, and organizations. Based in Portland, Oregon, and part of the StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. , The Standard offers products such as life and disability insurance, annuities, vision and dental coverage, and retirement plans. Their solutions aim to facilitate financial wellness and enable effective benefits administration, catering to clients of all sizes. The company is renowned for its people-first commitment and innovative partnerships, contributing to a seamless customer experience.

📋 Description

• Responsible risk selection and management, pricing and growth helps ensure we can back that promise. • Own the LAD underwriting strategy, risk management and operations ensuring appropriate pricing, plan design and overall risk selection to drive profitable growth, strong persistency and sustainable financial outcomes. • Invest in and develop the LAD Underwriting department to continue creating a culture of high performance, accountability, and innovation across teams. • Collaborate with sales in an unrivaled way to produce industry leading underwriting results that create a competitive advantage for The Standard. • Innovate and implement tools and processes that improve efficiency and compliance with metrics.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Math or related field. Preferred advanced degree. • Minimum of twelve to fifteen years progressive experience in Group Insurance or financial services industries with a preference of at least ten years of progressively responsible group underwriting experience, including 5 years in complex national accounts business, with a minimum of seven years of progressively responsible experience in management positions. • Demonstrated experience in successfully partnering cross organization to achieve business results. • Strong background in workplace benefits life, absence and disability products.

🏖️ Benefits

• A rich benefits package including medical, dental, vision and a 401(k) plan with matching company contributions • An annual incentive bonus plan • Generous paid time off including 11 holidays, 2 wellness days, and 8 volunteer hours annually — PTO increases with tenure • A supportive, responsive management approach and opportunities for career growth and advancement • Paid parental leave and adoption/surrogacy assistance • An employee giving program that double matches your donations to eligible nonprofits and schools