Underwriting Managing Director

About the Role

Pacific Life is actively seeking a talented Underwriting Managing Director to join our Consumer Markets Division and lead a team of Underwriters. This role supports 100% remote work. As an Underwriting Managing Director, you’ll play a key role in Pacific Life’s growth and long-term success as a people leader and deeply technical Underwriting subject matter expert. You'll evaluate insurance applicants, correlating all aspects of risk to determine whether to accept, modify, or decline applications. You'll focus on mortality by evaluating risk of death, which includes history, degree of medical maintenance, treatment, and flags of potential future risk. Our underwriters are crucial to the placement of Life Insurance coverage and can directly impact our position in the marketplace and relationship with distribution partners.

Now is a great time to join our Underwriting team. We have undertaken a transformational effort to update our tools and achieve accelerated underwriting. Our underwriters are empowered to grow their careers through learning and development opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Complete wing-to-wing underwriting decisions, starting with review of upfront underwriting data and tools
• Staff coaching and development of Underwriting Consultants and Senior Consultants
• Handle additional underwriting requirements by determining value, ordering, and reviewing to perform risk selection
• Finalize cases and perform second-sign duties as needed
• Demonstrate dependability, organization, and sound judgment by adhering to schedules and meeting all productivity, quality, and performance standards

Requirements

• 10 - 12+ years of Life Insurance Underwriting experience with proven proficiency in underwriting processes and philosophies
• 5+ years of team management experience in an Underwriting capacity
• Ability to handle advanced decision level authorities without a co-signature ($15 million or higher)
• Effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to build relationships both internally and externally
• Critical thinking skills and attention to detail with the ability to quickly identify information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events
• Ability to interpret meaning of information for others; translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used
• Ability to develop specific goals, plan, and prioritize work

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• BGA and Trial Experience Preferred
• Completion of FALU, CLU, FLMI, or other insurance-related coursework

Pay

The base pay range noted represents the company’s good faith minimum and maximum range for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation offered to a candidate will be dependent upon several factors, including but not limited to experience, qualifications, and geographic location. Most employees are eligible for additional incentive pay.

$152,370.00 - $186,230.00

Benefits

• Prioritization of your health and well-being including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Wellbeing Reimbursement Account that can be used on yourself or your eligible dependents
• Generous paid time off options including: Paid Time Off, Holiday Schedules, and Financial Planning Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave as well as an Adoption Assistance Program
• Competitive 401k savings plan with company match and an additional contribution regardless of participation