Senior Stop-Loss Underwriter

About This Role

This Senior Stop-Loss Underwriter role involves evaluating risk, pricing cases, and developing strategic underwriting approaches to drive self-funded solutions. The position requires managing case workloads, supporting sales efforts, maintaining broker relationships, and mentoring junior underwriters.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate, price, and propose rates and strategies for specific and aggregate benefits for self-funded prospects
• Manage assigned workload to meet productivity and time service standards
• Manage field office relationships regarding industry information, prospects, and regional medical trends
• Formulate successful sales strategies with the sales team within general underwriting guidelines while ensuring profitability
• Make independent decisions on case work using general underwriting guidelines
• Act as a resource for other underwriters, sales teams, underwriting assistants, and claims
• Analyze information such as industry, demographics, plan design, and PPO networks to determine acceptable risk levels
• Accountable for the achievement of Profit, Persistency, and Growth Goals through financial analysis of employer groups
• Be highly effective in a fast paced, seasonally very high production environment with constantly shifting priorities and ever present case level negotiations

Requirements

• 5+ years of Stop-Loss product underwriting experience
• Strong Microsoft Excel knowledge
• Strong Microsoft Word knowledge

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree preferred
• 5+ or more years of Stop-Loss product underwriting experience

Nice to Have

• Ability to support/mentor Underwriting Assistant and underwriting staff

Skills

* Required skills