Underwriting Consultant
Guardian Life, Boston, MA, United States
Large Market Underwriting Consultant
The Objective of the
Large Market Underwriting Consultant
will be to work with Sales, Underwriting and Products and Pricing to profitably grow Guardian's Large Market revenue and market share in the 1,000 lives and over market space. Key objectives will be to achieve targeted sales and earnings goals, train, and mentor less experienced underwriters, manage complex technical underwriting issues, train account management, handle projects and recommend policy and strategy changes.
The Underwriting Consultant is responsible for to provide pricing and plan design for companies with 1,000 or more lives utilizing prior claim experience and manual rates. Products include Group Dental, Vision, FMLA, STD, LTD, Life, Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity insurance. The underwriter will be an excellent negotiator who builds collaborative relationships with Sales and other areas of Guardian to solve business issues and win.
Recommend competitively priced products, funding arrangements, and services to meet customer requirements
Determine pricing of new business and/or renewal business, including alternate plan of benefit options
Communicate rate/fee development and plan design offered. Assess contract comparisons for takeover business
Negotiate with sales representatives or agents/brokers to resolve rate questions and risk related concerns
Manage administrative processing of cases. Utilize underwriting systems and databases for quotes, sales, renewals to track results
Document case decisions and underwriting rationale
Provide mentoring/coaching to help develop technical skills of others, support team growth and development initiatives
Conduct training for sales and/or underwriting staff as needed
Participate in project work or on teams to develop or improve underwriting processes.
Responsible for oversight and identification of any barriers to achievement of financial goals. Produce solutions that lead to target result achievement
Improve Guardian's underwriting strategies to support key growth goals and to assume an industry leadership position in the 1,000+ employer marketplace
Have the opportunity to enhance the overall talent and knowledge level of Large Market Underwriting, Sales, and Account Management
Be a go to person for technical issues and decision making for other team members
Advise others on how to handle irregular administrative requests or technical underwriting risk analysis based not only on experience, but also as capacity as a leader
Be a go to person for the Regional Underwriting Leader for the most complex work or key project work
Handle a delegated part of a larger task for completion and integration with the overall deliverable
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Large Market Underwriting Consultant
will be to work with Sales, Underwriting and Products and Pricing to profitably grow Guardian's Large Market revenue and market share in the 1,000 lives and over market space. Key objectives will be to achieve targeted sales and earnings goals, train, and mentor less experienced underwriters, manage complex technical underwriting issues, train account management, handle projects and recommend policy and strategy changes.
The Underwriting Consultant is responsible for to provide pricing and plan design for companies with 1,000 or more lives utilizing prior claim experience and manual rates. Products include Group Dental, Vision, FMLA, STD, LTD, Life, Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity insurance. The underwriter will be an excellent negotiator who builds collaborative relationships with Sales and other areas of Guardian to solve business issues and win.
Recommend competitively priced products, funding arrangements, and services to meet customer requirements
Determine pricing of new business and/or renewal business, including alternate plan of benefit options
Communicate rate/fee development and plan design offered. Assess contract comparisons for takeover business
Negotiate with sales representatives or agents/brokers to resolve rate questions and risk related concerns
Manage administrative processing of cases. Utilize underwriting systems and databases for quotes, sales, renewals to track results
Document case decisions and underwriting rationale
Provide mentoring/coaching to help develop technical skills of others, support team growth and development initiatives
Conduct training for sales and/or underwriting staff as needed
Participate in project work or on teams to develop or improve underwriting processes.
Responsible for oversight and identification of any barriers to achievement of financial goals. Produce solutions that lead to target result achievement
Improve Guardian's underwriting strategies to support key growth goals and to assume an industry leadership position in the 1,000+ employer marketplace
Have the opportunity to enhance the overall talent and knowledge level of Large Market Underwriting, Sales, and Account Management
Be a go to person for technical issues and decision making for other team members
Advise others on how to handle irregular administrative requests or technical underwriting risk analysis based not only on experience, but also as capacity as a leader
Be a go to person for the Regional Underwriting Leader for the most complex work or key project work
Handle a delegated part of a larger task for completion and integration with the overall deliverable
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