Senior Life Underwriting Leader & Team Architect

ConnectOS; Mandaluyong; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

ConnectOS, based in Metro Manila, seeks an energetic leader to guide a developing underwriting team toward high achievement. The role emphasizes mentorship, strategic staffing, and improving onboarding, training, and quality control across domestic and international staff.

The right candidate has extensive life underwriting experience, strong leadership, and a data-driven approach to decisions, with excellent communication and collaboration skills to drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Life underwriting (US-based underwriting experience is preferred).
• 5+ years in underwriting leadership or development.
• Extensive knowledge of life insurance trends and new technology.
• Owner mentality with a track record of timely delivery.
• Data oriented decision making and strong intuition.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead a developing underwriting team with passion, positivity, and continuous improvement.
• Allocate 50% of time to case underwriting and ensure high quality decisions.
• Recruit, hire, mentor, and develop underwriting staff domestically and internationally.
• Create and improve onboarding and underwriting training programs.
• Develop performance management and quality control systems for feedback and reviews.
• Drive underwriting workflow optimization and implement rules within underwriting engine.
• Support strategic efforts with QA testing of automated rules and processes.

Skills

Life underwriting

Leadership

Team development

Communication

Data-driven decisions

Job description

ConnectOS, based in Metro Manila, seeks an energetic leader to guide a developing underwriting team toward high achievement. The role emphasizes mentorship, strategic staffing, and improving onboarding, training, and quality control across domestic and international staff.

The right candidate has extensive life underwriting experience, strong leadership, and a data-driven approach to decisions, with excellent communication and collaboration skills to drive continuous improvement.