Chief Underwriter - Business Consultant

The Hartford; Alpharetta (GA); Hybrid; USD 86,400 - 138,600; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company is looking for an Underwriting Senior Business Consultant located in Alpharetta, Georgia. This position involves applying underwriting expertise and training for the Group Reinsurance Plus division. Candidates should have at least four years of experience in group life and disability underwriting, along with excellent communication and analytical skills. The role offers a hybrid work schedule, with a salary range between $86,400 and $138,600 annually.

Qualifications

• Must have 4 or more years of group life and disability underwriting experience.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills required.
• Strong analytical abilities and attention to detail are essential.

Responsibilities

• Act as the gatekeeper of GRP best practices for underwriting.
• Develop and deliver client-training curricula.
• Perform internal quality management reviews.

Skills

Group life and disability underwriting skills

Communication skills

Analytical abilities

Organization and prioritization management

Self-motivated

Project management

Education

4+ years of underwriting experience

Job description

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We’re determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals – and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future.

The Underwriting Senior Business Consultant position in Group Reinsurance Plus (GRP) is a dynamic role that applies product knowledge and technical underwriting skills to best practices, training and quality management for the benefit of GRP and its reinsurance clients. It involves partnership with key underwriting and business contacts both internally and externally to deliver creative, yet practical solutions.

Your career here means leveraging your previous underwriting expertise in a new Shared Services role through collaboration, inclusivity, innovative thinking and more. You’ll put creative insights to work with the underwriting team and leaders, having a seat at the table with key decision makers. Numerous opportunities exist for career growth in whatever direction you choose.

Best Practices

• Act as the gatekeeper of GRP best practices to ensure new guidelines, processes, procedures, and related underwriting bulletin articles have been fully vetted.
• Work closely with GRP Underwriting Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and GB Underwriting Best Practices to ensure GRP’s underwriting policies and procedures reflect current practices, where applicable.
• Draft, peer‑review, and publish new or revised content for our internal underwriting SharePoint sites and external underwriting manuals.

Training and Education

• Develop, deliver, and maintain internal and client‑company training curriculum, including robust and pertinent case studies, training agreements, knowledge assessments and course evaluations, focusing primarily on pricing protocols, risk assessment, financial analysis, and other topics unique to Group Life, Disability and Supplemental Health.

Quality Management

• Perform internal quality management reviews for group life and disability, including rate development, policies and procedures, proposal and presale analysis memos, and provide thoughtful insight into areas of excellence and opportunity.
• Perform presale quality management reviews for reinsurance clients that perform their own underwriting and for other special studies, audits, and training reviews to gain insight into GRP or client underwriting practices.
• Develop and work with others to execute action plans designed to improve the quality of GRP and client underwriting based on quality management results, such as enhanced best practices, training, revised underwriting authority limits, etc.

Strategic Reserve

• Act as strategic reserve and underwrite new business quotes, renewals and sold case submissions as requested during periods of high demand or limited capacity on other teams.

Other

• Lead and/or actively participate in various functional or cross‑functional initiatives within GRP or with other areas within Group Benefits.

Qualifications

• Group life and disability underwriting skills, preferably with 4 or more years of underwriting experience including experience rated size segments.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate to audiences with varying levels of expertise and job level.
• Proven analytical abilities with keen attention to detail balanced with the ability to see and make sense of the big picture, make recommendations and propose solutions.
• Demonstrated organization and prioritization management skills, including project management and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast‑paced work environment.
• Highly self‑motivated, takes ownership and is able to work independently and with limited direction.
• Group reinsurance, advanced product, continuous improvement and/or change management experience preferred but not required.
• This position can be filled at different levels depending on experience.

Salary $86,400-$138,600

This role can have a Hybrid or Remote work schedule. Candidates who live near one of our office locations will be expected to work in an office 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday). Candidates who do not live near an office will work remotely, with the expectation of coming into an office as business needs arise.

Compensation

The listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market. Actual base pay may vary and can be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role. The base pay is just one component of The Hartford’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include short‑term or annual bonuses, long‑term incentives, and on‑the‑spot recognition. The annualized base pay range for this role is $86,400 – $138,600.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Sex/Race/Color/Veterans/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity or Expression/Religion/Age