VP, Head of Case Unit and Retention Management

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RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 200 Company and listed among its World's Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

In coordination with Chief Underwriter and VP, Technical Underwriting to lead, manage, and direct the development and compliance of financial and medical underwriting standards, and policies and procedures that drive USIM’s philosophy and sound approach to underwriting. Underwrites large risk facultative cases and manages client relationships to ensure client's needs are met while ensuring profitable underwriting decisions and maintaining USIM's philosophy.

Ensures department alignment and coordination with all other areas of the company to achieve corporate business strategies and vision. Serves as a key member of the US Facultative leadership team, providing strategic direction and fostering a spirit of cooperation and coordination among all work areas.

• Appraises and underwrites USIM’s largest risks for life insurance with unlimited approval authority. Exercises full authority to make exceptions to guidelines and rules to ensure preserving of client relationships while maintaining RGA Re philosophy and profitable business. Overarching goal is to ensure profitable and sustainable relationships with clients.
• Develops and manages client relationships by providing expert underwriting solutions to clients through partnering with them to identify unique, creative ways to solve their problems, improve their business results and by effectively communicating, negotiating and selling underwriting decisions which result in strong business relationships. Through intelligence gathering, communicates underwriting information and trends to clients.
• Acts as USIM’s primary contact for retro companies and maintains USIM’s reputation in the auto and facultative pool arrangements.
• Reviews, co-signs and/or gives second opinion on COLI/BOLI underwriting and mentors, educates and trains underwriters in COLI/BOLI and financial underwriting.
• Leads the Large Case Unit (LCU) performing management responsibilities and provision of development and rotational opportunities for team members. Further develops talent outside of the immediate team, to foster talent succession for the LCU team. Provides leadership and underwriting expertise to management, team members, actuarial, business development and external clients and as requested outside the division.
• Ensures that there is adequate underwriting support for large case review and provides training opportunities in large case review for less experienced underwriters.
• Performs selected facultative case claims analysis and review and supports audits. Reviews potential jumbo violations on inforce cases and works collaboratively with clients, retrocessionaires, and internal stakeholders (Claims, Actuarial, Business Development, Operations, etc.) to ensure appropriate resolution for all parties.
• Represents RGA Re, as a leader in reinsurance underwriting, at industry meetings and exercises influence, as appropriate, with customers, competitors, retrocessionaires.
• Fosters a positive and engaged work environment. Mentors associates and gives guidance on associate development.
• Serves as a member of the US Facultative Underwriting leadership team, including setting strategic and tactical direction, division goals and objectives including assessing/prioritizing client relationships, and development of joint plans to…