Bilingual Underwriting Consultant

6 days ago

Montreal, Quebec, Canada Sun Life Full time
You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you'll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self.

You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you.

Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights.

Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do.

Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Bilingual Underwriting Consultant - Innovation


Looking to grow your career while influencing underwriting innovation, development and philosophies? At Sun Life, our focus on underwriting advancements and continuing education and are seen as industry benchmarks.

It's not just about the what, Sun Life invests in the how with an emphasis on leadership, innovation, and skills development.

We are looking for YOU to make a difference while using the best technologies and methodologies in the industry.

At Sun Life, we offer a supportive, collaborative and dynamic culture.

You have the flexibility to choose a workstyle that works best for you, whether it's the office, virtually or a mixture of both.


What will you do?

  • Evolve and monitor the Underwriting Rules Engine to maximize straight through underwriting while maintaining Sun Life's underwriting guidelines and philosophies
  • Support the continuous development of our predictive underwriting model
  • Complete research of new technology and data sources in the support of underwriting innovation.
  • Utilize various data sources in mortality/morbidity assessments
  • Audit model performance to ensure alignment with regulatory requirements, risk tolerance and financial expectations.
  • Maintain strong risk management while balancing the experience of our customers and advisors
  • Complete updates to underwriting guidelines and philosophies to enhance Sun Life's position as a leader in the Canadian market
  • Review medical analysis and clinical research to support product development and underwriting innovation.
  • Collaborate with the Product, Pricing, Risk, Operations and other Underwriting leadership to develop new insurance products.
  • Keep up to date with medical knowledge, developments and trends in underwriting and the insurance industry.
  • Conduct protective value assessments and strategies to advance personalized underwriting, while ensuring sufficient information is available to enable effective risk assessment.
  • Mentor and cosign on cases as needed

What do you need to succeed?

  • Minimum 710 years of progressive underwriting experience as a technical Individual Life Underwriter
  • Existing Life and Critical Illness signing authorities
  • Bilingualism (French, English, both oral and written) is required for the frequent interactions with English and Frenchspeaking colleagues or internal partners across Canada and worldwide and the position reports to a unilingual Englishspeaking manager outside Quebec.
  • Innovative thinker
  • Understanding of risk factors relating to mortality/morbidity risk management (medical, financial, occupational, environmental, etc.);
  • Strong understanding of insurance principles including mortality, insurable interest and actuarial theory; compliance with insurance, privacy and AML regulations; reinsurance treaties, and autobind retention limits; and individual life insurance products and riders
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with individuals at all levels of seniority and on cross functional teams, as well as work individually.
  • Sound business judgment, results oriented, customer focused, and excellent negotiation, relationship building and influencing skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to handle written and telephone inquiries of a sensitive nature
  • Strong problem solving and analytical skills
  • Team player with a positive attitude and commitment to provide quality service
  • Proven track record of acting as a coach/mentor
  • Proven time management abilities, prioritizing multiple tasks
  • Specialized training: ALU certificate and commitment to ongoing education with a goal of attaining the Fellow, Academy of Life Underwriting (FALU) and Fellow, Life Management Institute (FLMI) designations Detail oriented and accuracy

What's in it for you?

  • Trusting, diverse and inclusive working environments
  • Supportive leadership who's focused on your success and wellbeing
  • You choose where you want to work from, with no minimum or maximum days in either place. We want the office to be a magnet, not a mandate
  • Continuous improvements that focus on enhancing your work and our clients' experience
  • Sustainability commitments to create a cleaner, more inclusive and sustainable future for our communities
  • We offer a number of programs and offerings to help our Employees achieve l

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