Director, Underwriting Strategy – Governance

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $175k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Penn Mutual

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1847

For over 175 years, Penn Mutual has empowered individuals, families and businesses on the journey to achieve their financial goals. Through our partnership with Financial Professionals across the U.S., we help generations grow stronger by instilling the confidence and reliability that comes from a secure financial future. Penn Mutual and its affiliates offer a comprehensive suite of competitive and robust solutions to meet the unique needs of Financial Professionals and their clients, including life insurance, annuities, wealth management and institutional asset management. To learn more, including current financial strength ratings, visit www.pennmutual.com.

📋 Description

• Mentor and coach underwriters to strengthen technical expertise, judgment, and consistency • Develop, enhance, and deliver underwriting training programs • Reinforce underwriting standards, documentation expectations, and governance discipline • Support the Associate (VP) Chief Underwriter in executing underwriting strategy, governance standards, and policy changes • Participate in underwriting governance initiatives, forums, quality reviews, and audit activities • Review cases and outcomes to identify trends and improvement opportunities • Resolve complex underwriting issues and systemic challenges, escalating insights and recommendations • Participate in underwriting projects involving process improvements, technology adoption, and vendor solution implementation • Support modernization by helping underwriters adopt new tools, automation, and enhanced workflows • Collaborate with Medical, Actuarial, Product, Reinsurance, Distribution, Compliance, and Operations partners • Reinforce responsible use of AI and advanced analytics through training, documentation standards, and quality controls • Serve as a senior underwriting subject matter expert and escalation point for complex risk assessments • Review referrals and provide underwriting decisions and signatures within delegated authority, including large, complex, and jumbo cases • Provide limited production underwriting support without owning day-to-day case flow or operational queues

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent related work experience required • 10+ years of life underwriting experience • Demonstrated underwriting signing authority of $20M, including experience with complex case design and advanced sales • Deep technical expertise in life underwriting risk assessment, complex case evaluation, and underwriting standards • Strong ability to mentor, coach, and develop underwriters’ technical judgment and consistency • Experience supporting underwriting training, quality reviews, and governance initiatives • Solid understanding of life insurance products (Term, Whole Life, IUL, VUL) and advanced underwriting considerations • Familiarity with underwriting tools, evidence sources, and emerging technologies, including AI enabled capabilities • Ability to partner effectively with senior underwriting leaders while operating without direct operational ownership • Strong judgment, communication, and influence skills • Professional designations ACS, ALU, FLMI, FALU, or CLU, or progress toward one or more designations, preferred • Master’s Degree or MBA preferred