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Health underwriting Manager
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Responsibilities
- Lead underwriting for large, mid-size, and SME corporate group health accounts.
- Assess risk profiles, claim experience, demographics, benefits structure, and pricing adequacy for group health policies
- Review and approve new business within assigned authority limits.
- Develop and maintain underwriting guidelines, pricing frameworks, and rating tools for group health products, in collaboration with other technical teams including Pricing Actuaries.
- Collaborate closely with BRM’s, Brokers, Actuarial, Medical, and Claims teams to support business growth while maintaining profitability.
- Monitor portfolio performance, loss ratios, and claims trends, recommend corrective actions where required.
- Participate in negotiations with key corporate clients and brokers for complex cases
- Ensure compliance with UAE regulations, DHA, DOH (HAAD), MOHAP, and internal underwriting policies.
- Oversee underwriting for individual and family health insurance products.
- Evaluate medical disclosures, medical reports, and underwriting risks for retail cases.
- Apply loadings, exclusions, waiting periods, and other underwriting decisions as per guidelines.
- Support product development and pricing reviews for retail health offerings.
- Ensure turnaround times and service standards are met for retail underwriting requests.
- Liaise with the insurance and technology partners to ensure smooth underwriting process.
- Bachelor’s degree in insurance, Business Administration, Finance, Medicine, or a related field.
- Professional insurance qualifications (ACII, CII, LOMA or equivalent) preferred.
- 8–12 years of health underwriting experience, with strong exposure to Corporate Group Health in the UAE.
- Proven leadership or managerial experience in health underwriting.
- Strong understanding of UAE health insurance regulations and market dynamics
- Analytical skills and eye for details
- Interpersonal skills
- Teamwork
- Excellent communication skills (Written / Verbal) – ability to communicate clearly and concisely, conveying complex or technical information in a way in which others can comprehend as well as ability to understand / interpret complex information from others
- ability to come up with analytical data collation / interpretation
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