What are the responsibilities and job description for the Executive Leader position at Pekin Insurance?
About the Role:
The Senior Underwriter Manager is responsible for overseeing the company's underwriting strategy, ensuring risk assessment aligns with corporate goals and profitability targets.
This role provides strategic leadership, innovation, and oversight of the underwriting function, optimizing processes, technology, and talent to drive efficiency and growth.
- Develops and executes the long-term underwriting strategy, aligning with corporate objectives, market trends, and risk appetite
- Overses and refines underwriting policies, guidelines, and risk selection frameworks to drive sustainable profitability and sound risk management
- Provides final decision authority on high-value, complex, or escalated underwriting cases
- Monitors mortality, morbidity, and industry trends, proactively adjusting underwriting strategies as needed
Key Responsibilities:
- Leads the underwriting operations team, ensuring efficiency, quality, and scalability through workflow optimization and technology adoption
- Drives the implementation of underwriting automation, AI-driven risk assessment, and electronic health record (EHR) integration to enhance efficiency
- Establishes and monitors key performance indicators (KPIs) for underwriting performance, operational efficiency, and risk outcomes
- Collaborates with IT, data analytics, and actuarial teams to leverage insights for underwriting process improvements
