Senior Underwriting Consultant

🕒 August 2

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $92.5k - $160.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📋 Underwriter

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Manulife

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10,000+ employees

🛡️ Insurance

💸 Finance

Insurance • Finance

Manulife is a multinational Canadian financial services company focused on insurance and wealth management. It describes itself as making decisions easier and lives better through life and health protection, retirement and investment solutions, and a global footprint including brands such as John Hancock in the U. S. ; the company emphasizes digital innovation, AI, sustainability and inclusive growth while offering career and customer services worldwide.

📋 Description

• Evaluate applications with the highest financial impact and complexity • Analyze underwriting decisions while maintaining overall underwriting policies • Work independently and guide more junior colleagues • Identify and provide solutions to workflow and systems problems • Negotiate and manage time and resources to meet deadlines and service times • Provide training and act as an information resource for junior underwriters • Process auditing, formal appeal reviews, and contestable claim reviews • Audit applications to ensure underwriting decisions, correspondence, and administrative processing follow established guidelines and policies • Audit medical record summaries for compliance with established guidelines • Assist management with research projects related to risk assessment • Process formal underwriting appeals and complaints • Review underwriting fraud referrals and assist with book-of-business reviews • Review contestable claims for potential misrepresentation during underwriting • Maintain relationships within a self-directed team environment • Project a professional image and serve as an example to junior staff • Manage the underwriting process for the most complex cases • Serve as a subject matter expert for junior colleagues and management • Assist management with staff training and consultations

🎯 Requirements

• College graduate or business equivalent • Preferably 7 or more years of underwriting experience or exposure • Strong knowledge of underwriting functions • Sound knowledge of John Hancock's various businesses • Strong knowledge of referral areas • Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills • Strong analytical skills and ability to define, research, and resolve problems • Excellent ability to create and maintain customer relationships • Ability to prioritize and work effectively under deadlines while balancing published service times with customer focus • Strong ability to comprehend, retain, and apply current technical information to daily work issues • Strong knowledge of company plans, riders, benefits, and illustrations • Strong knowledge of medical science, technology, and terminology and their impact on morbidity

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment supporting well-being and inclusion • Health insurance • Dental insurance • Mental health benefits • Vision insurance • Short- and long-term disability insurance • Life and AD&D insurance coverage • Adoption and surrogacy benefits • Wellness benefits • Employee and family assistance plans • Retirement savings plans, including pension and 401(k) savings plans • Global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions • Financial education and counseling resources • Up to 11 paid holidays annually • 3 personal days annually • 150 hours of vacation annually • 40 hours of sick time annually, or more where required by law • Statutory leaves of absence • Incentive programs and incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance • Learning and career growth support