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American General Life Insurance Company
Director, Life Underwriting
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A Life Underwriter assesses a life insurance application, by compiling information on the applicant, then analyzing that information to calculate the risk involved in providing life insurance.
$69,514 / year median in Texas
+10% projected growth
Job Description
Who We Are At Corebridge Financial, we believe action is everything. That's why every day we partner with financial professionals and institutions to make it possible for more people to take action in their financial lives, for today and tomorrow. We align to a set of Values that are the core pillars that define our culture and help bring our brand purpose to life: We are stronger as one: We collaborate across the enterprise, scale what works and act decisively for our customers and partners.
We deliver on commitments:
We are accountable, empower each other and go above and beyond for our stakeholders. We learn, improve and innovate: We get better each day by challenging the status quo and equipping ourselves for the future.We are inclusive:
We embrace different perspectives, enabling our colleagues to make an impact and bring their whole selves to work. Who You'll Work With Corebridge Financial is an outstanding franchise that brings together a broad portfolio of life insurance, retirement and institutional products offered through an extensive, multichannel distribution network. We hold long-standing, leading market positions in many of the markets we serve. With our strong capital position, customer orientation, breadth of product expertise and deep distribution relationships across various channels, we are well positioned to serve growing market needs. About the role The underwriting organization is responsible for underwriting new life applications with a focus on delivering a best-in-class customer experience. Underwriting team members provide medical and financial risk assessment on applications for individual life insurance applications. The primary responsibility of the Director, Life Underwriting is to accurately assess medical and financial risk, protecting the mortality results of the organization while also supporting sales. Underwriting team members interact frequently with our customers and therefore the role requires a customer centric and relationship focused attitude, excellent communication skills as well as accountability for accurate and prompt processing. This position reports to the Managing Underwriting Director and will work with Case Managers, Internal & External Wholesalers and NMO's/Firms. Responsibilities- Underwrite complex formal applications and informal quote applications with the ability to evaluate and take final action in an independent manner within approval authority guidelines.
- Analyze complex information and interpret to reach comprehensive medical and financial assessments based on company guidelines and policy.
- Effectively manage change, defuse conflict and negotiate positive results.
- Able to take a cross-functional view of work processes and understand the ramifications to other areas of actions taken and decisions made.
- Must be organized and able to manage a large caseload.
- Demonstrate superior technical underwriting knowledge and skills.
- Ability to provide training to internal and external customers on underwriting topics.
- Able to independently and effectively interact with a sophisticated field force dealing with an upscale market. Skills and Qualifications
- Experience with brokerage distribution marketplace.
- 10+ years of life underwriting experience with demonstrated competence and experience handling larger face amount cases.
- Required Approval authority up to $10,000,000.
- FLMI, FALU and/or CLU designations preferred or progress toward these designations.