Group Underwriter

6 months ago

Waterloo, Canada Manulife Full time

We are a leading financial services provider committed to making decisions easier and lives better for our customers and colleagues around the world. From our environmental initiatives to our community investments, we lead with values throughout our business. To help us stand out, we help you step up, because when colleagues are healthy, respected and meaningfully challenged, we all thrive. Discover how you can grow your career, make impact and drive real change with our Winning Team today.

**Working Arrangement**

Hybrid

**The Opportunity**

The Underwriting Team is looking for an analytical, self-starter to join the unit as an Underwriter. Reporting to the Small Business Underwriting Manager the Underwriter position is accountable for analyzing group characteristics, benefits and plan design in order to appropriately price and win new group business or retain existing business.

This role will involve analyzing the rating information, assessing the group’s specific risk characteristics as well as delivering clear, accurate and complete quotes to our Manulife Account Executives.

**Responsibilities**
- Analyze group characteristics, benefits, and plan designs.
- Analyze premium and claims information in order to appropriately price new business.
- Provide underwriting decisions through clear verbal and written communications.
- Conduct constructive negotiations utilizing underwriting judgment and guidelines.
- Evaluate and act on risk propositions.
- Accurately price new and existing business opportunities.
- Provide value added underwriting and benefit recommendations to maximize the clients' group benefit spend.

**How will you create impact?**

Manulife's Group Benefits business is a leading provider of employee group benefits for the small business market. With more than 18,000 small business customers, the organization offers a range of comprehensive benefit plans including health and dental care, disability, group life insurance, and accidental death coverage.

**What motivates you?**
- You obsess about customers, listen, engage, and act for their benefit.
- You think big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile approach and enable business outcomes.
- You thrive in teams and enjoy getting things done together.
- You take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters.
- You do what is right, work with integrity and speak up.
- You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone.

**What we are looking for**
- Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with Group Life and Health concepts, benefits and products.
- Previous experience in a customer service oriented role.
- Mathematical aptitude.
- Ability to handle high volumes, fluctuating workloads and multiple priorities within set time constraints.
- PC Skills: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel.
- Previous underwriting experience is an asset, as is enrollment in or completion of LOMA, HIAA, or CEBS.

**What can we offer you?**
- A competitive salary and benefits packages.
- A growth trajectory that extends upward and outward, encouraging you to follow your passions and learn new skills.
- A focus on growing your career path with us.
- Flexible work policies and strong work-life balance.
- Professional development and leadership opportunities.

**Our commitment to you**
- Values-first culture: We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together.
- Boundless opportunity: We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career.
- Continuous innovation: We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services.
- Delivering the promise of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion : We foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives.
- Championing Corporate Citizenship: We build a business that benefits all stakeholders and has a positive social and environmental impact.

**About Manulife and John Hancock**

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Asia, Canada, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We provide financial advice, insurance, and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2022, we had more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 34 million customers. At the end of 2022, we had $1.3 trillion (US$1.0 trillion) in assets under management and administration, including total invested assets of $0.4 trillion (US $0.3 trillion), and segregated funds net assets of $0.3 trillion (US$0.3 trillion). We trade as ‘MFC’ on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges, and under ‘945’ in Hong Kong.

**Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer**

**Salary & Benefits**

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