Senior Life Underwriting Leader - Remote

Guardian Life; Juneau (AK); Remoto; USD 95.000 - 156.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Guardian Life seeks a senior leader in life underwriting who can balance operational discipline with innovation. You will coach underwriters, oversee complex cases, and drive analytics adoption to improve turnaround time and outcomes.

You will lead a team, monitor mortality metrics, and validate new underwriting technologies, ensuring compliance and stakeholder collaboration across fields and vendors.

Competenze

• Extensive life underwriting expertise with authority on complex, high‑value cases.
• 5+ years of life underwriting experience leading teams and complex decisions.
• Working knowledge of automated underwriting platforms (RHO, PIA) and QA.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management with reinsurers and vendors.
• Ability to coach underwriters to adopt digital tools and new workflows.
• Commitment to ethics, regulatory compliance and sustainable practices.

Mansioni

• Provide expert judgment on highly complex and escalated cases with guideline consistency.
• Oversee adjudication during peak volumes, promoting analytics and modern platforms.
• Lead and develop a team of underwriters, set priorities and ensure SLAs.
• Use analytics dashboards to track mortality, placement, cycle time and referrals.
• Pilot and validate new underwriting tech and vendor solutions with business cases.
• Coach underwriters in analytical thinking, digital tools and customer‑centric practices.
• Negotiate appeals using professional judgment and established guidelines when needed.
• Communicate with field force and home office to gather information and convey decisions.

Conoscenze

Life underwriting

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Strumenti

RHO

PIA

Descrizione del lavoro

Guardian Life seeks a senior leader in life underwriting who can balance operational discipline with innovation. You will coach underwriters, oversee complex cases, and drive analytics adoption to improve turnaround time and outcomes.

You will lead a team, monitor mortality metrics, and validate new underwriting technologies, ensuring compliance and stakeholder collaboration across fields and vendors.