Sr UW Reg Acct - UO08IE
We're determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals - and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future.
We're in the business of helping people and other insurance companies achieve amazing things by protecting the things that matter most through private label and traditional excess and quota share reinsurance. And you can help us when you join our team of underwriters. They're at the center of everything we do - and by joining us, you'll be on a team known throughout the industry for providing our customers with just the right amount of coverage they need to pursue their unique interests.
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Your underwriting career here means collaboration, inclusivity, innovative thinking and so much more. Here, doing things the way they've always been done isn't a part of the job. Here, you'll be putting your creative insights to work with other underwriters and leaders, having a seat at the table with key decision makers, within Group Reinsurance Plus but also with our reinsurance clients. And you'll have any number of opportunities for your career to grow in whatever direction you choose.
We'll Be a Good Match if You Have:
• A customer-first mindset, putting our customers at the center of everything you do.
• A passion for making decisions through both analyzing data and employing critical thinking skills.
• A team spirit and desire to work collaboratively.
• A financial mindset to help make the best decisions.
• Ability to own our work and following through on commitments.
• Ability to decipher and execute within a fluid and changing business environment.
• An understanding of how to build relationships and trust among diverse groups.
• The ability to advance their careers into more technical OR leadership positions.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree strongly preferred, or equivalent combination of education, training and experience
• 3 + years of Group Benefits underwriting experience as either a direct writer or reinsurer
• Demonstrated success in developing and maintaining solid relationships with all internal and external business partners
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills
• An ability to think analytically about business problems, make recommendations and propose solutions
• High energy self-starter, who is resilient and has an entrepreneurial spirit
• Demonstration of solid time, organizational, and desk management skills
• Goal-oriented and delivers outcomes
• Ability to challenge the status quo and compete to win
• Superior technical knowledge and sound decision-making and analytical skills
Responsibilities:
Best Practices
- Act as the gatekeeper of GRP best practices to ensure new guidelines, process and procedures, and related underwriting bulletin articles have been fully vetted.
- Work closely with GRP Underwriting Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and GB Underwriting Best Practices to ensure that GRP's underwriting policies and procedures are reflective of current practices, where deemed to be applicable.
- Draft, peer review and publish new or revised content for our internal underwriting SharePoint sites and external underwriting manuals.
Quality Management
- Perform internal quality management reviews for group life and disability, including rate development, policies and procedures, proposal and presale analysis memos, and provide thoughtful insight as to an individual's areas of excellence and opportunity.
- Perform presale quality management reviews for reinsurance clients that perform their own underwriting as well as other special studies, audits and training reviews to gain insight into GRP or client underwriting practices.
- Develop and work with others to execute on action plans designed to improve the quality of GRP and client underwriting based on quality management results, such as enhanced best practices, training, revised underwriting authority limits, etc.,
Training
- Develop, deliver, and maintain internal and client company training curriculum, including robust and pertinent case studies, training agreements, knowledge assessments and course evaluations, focusing primarily on the pricing protocols, risk assessment, financial analysis and other topics unique to experience rated and manually rated business for Group Life and Disability
Strategic Reserve
- Act as strategic reserve and underwrite new business quotes, renewals and sold case submissions as requested during periods of high demand or limited capacity on other teams.
Miscellaneous
- Lead and/or actively participate in various functional or cross-functional initiatives and councils within GRP or with other areas within Group Benefits.
This role will have a Hybrid work schedule, with the expectation of working in an office 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday).
Compensation
The listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market. Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role. The base pay is just one component of The Hartford's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition. The annualized base pay range for this role is:
$78,160 - $117,240
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