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Reinsurance Group of America is seeking an experienced Underwriting Director to lead our underwriting team. As a key member of our leadership team, you will be responsible for managing the underwriting department, ensuring that our clients receive timely and responsive service.
Key Responsibilities:- Manage and lead a team of underwriters, contract underwriters, and underwriting assistants to achieve departmental objectives.
- Develop and implement underwriting approaches and procedures to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and company policies.
- Handle client-related issues, underwriting complaints, and manage escalated issues in a professional and timely manner.
- Provide senior technical support to the underwriting team and clients, including co-signing cases and underwriting cases from the underwriting queue.
- Communicate and motivate the team, establishing appropriate methods to evaluate job performance and provide coaching and feedback.
- Manage, coach, monitor, and mentor staff, including development of staff to progressive levels where appropriate.
- Perform management tasks, including hiring, training, evaluation, coaching, and feedback.
- Work on special projects as needed and present a professional face of the company to employees and clients.
- College diploma or university degree or equivalent working experience.
- Minimum of 10 years of life underwriting experience.
- FLMI and FALU preferred, or other industry designations.
- Management experience, an asset.
- Insurance company experience, an asset.
- Reinsurance underwriting experience, an asset.
- Bilingual French/English (oral and written) is required given the need to communicate orally and in writing with a predominantly English-speaking clientele based outside of Quebec.
- Advanced life insurance medical and financial underwriting skills.
- Superior knowledge of current underwriting-related developments in life insurance, reinsurance, and retrocession, including competitiveness, products, medical, non-medical, financial trends, company relationships (internal and external).
- Advanced knowledge of medical underwriting, the financial aspect, and the law as applied in the evaluation of risk in life insurance.
- Ability to read and comprehend a vast amount of medical, non-medical, financial information and make decisions based on the information at hand.
- Strong critical thinking skills, innovative, and creative.
- Highly advanced ability to adapt new methods, work under tight deadlines, and stressful conditions.
- Comfortable with managing multiple projects and priorities.
- Effective in collaborating with individuals across a wide variety of operational, functional, and technical disciplines.
- Demonstrated persuasion and negotiation skills when working with internal/external customers to resolve issues/problems.
- Effective people management skills, demonstrating the ability to lead, mentor, and develop employees, including the ability to delegate key areas of responsibility.
- Intermediate Word, SQL/Query, and Excel skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, in French and English, given the need to communicate orally and in writing with a predominantly English-speaking clientele based outside Quebec.
- Ability to do client presentations.
- Ability to relate to staff and clients at all levels.
- Ability to travel as required.
