Director, Underwriting

FullscopeRMS helps health plans and insurance carriers grow their businesses with our turn-key solutions for group life & disability, absence management, supplement health and medical stop-loss products.

We are a subsidiary of Sun Life, a leading provider of group insurance benefits in the U.S.. FullscopeRMS also provides group life and disability plans to our clients through the third-party administrator Disability Reinsurance Management Services, Inc., often referred to as DRMS.

Job Description:

The Director of Underwriting is responsible for the pricing, growth and profitability of new and inforce business for assigned partner companies.

• Ensure that overall team and department underwriting results are profitable by overseeing the underwriting process, providing training and mentoring, conducting results analysis, reporting, auditing and implementing action plans to improve pricing results.
• Manage a team of underwriters establishing and maintaining an environment where people are focused and disciplined to meet departmental objectives.

Preferred skills

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically while performing Group Underwriting risk analysis
• Demonstrated proficiency with complex, technical situations, i.e. non-traditional risks, exception underwriting and working outside the guidelines
• Full understanding of the underwriting mechanics and pricing for all types of disability risks
• Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver training programs and other presentations as a subject matter expert and speak in a public setting to both small and large groups
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Creative problem solving, decision making, time management and organizational skills
• Strong math aptitude
• Well organized and able to handle multiple priorities
• Proactive handling of customer service issues
• Ability to work professionally and effectively with co-workers, partners, vendors and others with whom FullscopeRMS does business
• Demonstrated people management and mentoring skills to assist employees in various stages of technical development

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years group disability underwriting experience required
• College degree preferred
• Strong knowledge of the reinsurance process preferred
• Mastery of Disability products including product provisions, plan design, pricing and contractual benefits, knowledge of Life products preferred
• Demonstrated knowledge of industry and marketplace trends

Responsibilities

• Accountable for driving profitable pricing levels for assigned partners on new business and renewals
• Supporting growth objectives for assigned partners
• Managing and developing a team of underwriters including recruiting

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