Senior Executive, Underwriting

**_Are you looking for a supportive, collaborative workplace with great teams and inspiring leaders? You’ve come to the right place. We’re looking for ambitious people who share our values and want to make every day better for people around the world. If this sounds like you, and the career below sounds exciting, we’d like to hear from you. _**

**Working Arrangement**

Hybrid

**The Opportunity
The customer is the focus of everything we do, and millions of end users rely on our products daily. We believe in the value of empowering our Underwriters with the resources to solve critical problems for the future of our business. We're looking for an underwriter who is obsessed with delivering value, is forward-thinking, and to execute underwriting for all products of Manulife.

**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 mindset 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

**We are looking for someone with**:

- Minimum 3 years of life underwriting experience
- Strong distributors relationship management skill
- Good communication skills
- Critical problem solving and decision making

**Nice to have**:

- Possess degree qualifications with ALU certificates

**What you will do in the role:
Underwriting Risk Management
- Execute underwriting for all products
- Perform risk assessment oversight for local underwriters in consultation with Chief Underwriter
- Responsible for the integrity of the underwriting approval
- Ensure compliant to Corporate and Regulatory guidelines
- Review claims on non-disclosure cases in conjunction with Chief Underwriter
- Review appeal cases in conjunction with VP New Business

New Product Development
- Working with Regional Office and Product Development to develop appropriate underwriting and benefits guidelines for the new products
- Working with the Product Launch Committee to ensure smooth product roll out

Training & Development
- Ensure consistent assessment across the underwriters and compliance with underwriting guidelines
- Work collaboratively with the rest of the New Business & Underwriting team members to ensure production targets are met monthly
- Provide feedback to Chief Underwriter on staff developmental needs from technical underwriting perspectives and other qualitative skills such as distribution management and decision making, etc..
- Train Distribution channels on new products’ underwriting requirements or changes to existing underwriting practices
- Provide consultations to distribution channels

Business Processes
- Establish underwriting practices to ensure competitive advantages
- Perform underwriting audits
- Conduct benchmarking exercises with various reinsurers

Risk Management with Regional Office and Reinsurers
- Work with both offices and reinsurers to develop underwriting guidelines that are appropriate to local context, in consultation with Chief Underwriter

**Our commitment to you**
- Our mission; to be a part of making Decisions Easier and Lives Better
- A leadership team dedicated to your growth and success
- A bold ambition and set of goals to be a leader in driving transformation in our industry
- Our best. Every day.

**About John Hancock and Manulife**

**Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer