Underwriting Manager

Workforce Classification:

Telecommuter

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Underwriting Manager , you will guide a high-performing team and shape the work that drives our business forward. In this role, you’ll combine people leadership, strategic insight, and underwriting expertise to strengthen operations and support key priorities across the organization.

This is a remote/telecommuter position, working from home.

Develop and deploy management monitoring reports for tracking financial and membership positions and contract and fulfillment production, using these reports to effectively manage the business and report results to senior management teams. Manage underwriting, pricing, and/or contracting activities to ensure that rates and policy provisions are adequate to meet the risks assumed and the profit objectives of the company. Manage underwriting processes to meet or exceed turnaround goals and objectives.

Create and maintain core competency in underwriting by recruitment, hiring, and training of high-quality, experienced, and energetic teams. Manage the associated performance appraisal process. Manage the budget process for assigned cost center(s), subject to corporate guidelines and senior management requirements. Serve as primary point of contact within Premera for other departments seeking information related to underwriting policy. Provide integral support to sales and account management teams, in internal and external presentations and negotiations.

Develop and maintain pricing data and contract generation systems that support departmental and strategic management decisions with timely and accurate information. Assist underwriting senior management in sustaining long-term policies and procedures to formulate work unit strategy in support of organizational strategy. Monitor and review data from internal departments for content and accuracy, and to identify associated problems and develop solutions.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or related field of study, or (4) years of work experience.
• (5) years of underwriting, regulatory, or health insurance consulting experience.
• Previous underwriting experience.

• (2) years of experience in health insurance management or a leadership position.
• Master’s Degree.
• CEBS (Certified Employee Benefit Specialist) designation.

• Demonstrated track record in providing leadership in complex business cases and/or projects.
• Substantial knowledge of the health insurance industry, and of the group administration and/or underwriting function within an insurance carrier setting.
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills.
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate "win-win" situations as it relates to business decisions.
• Ability to assess market conditions and recommend contract and underwriting improvements to support competitive position and/or revenue growth opportunities.