Life Underwriting Research Consultant

4 weeks ago

Sacramento, United States MassMutual Full time

Life Underwriting Research Consultant - Remote US

The Opportunity:

As a Life Underwriting Research Consultant, you'll join an innovative and dynamic environment supporting the Office of the Corporate Chief Underwriter (OCCU). In this role, you'll dive into a variety of exciting projects and research initiatives within the Operations Expense, Analytics, and Governance Organization. Your work will be diverse and impactful, including supporting protective value (PV) studies; creating RFPs for different vendors and vendor evaluation; examining and identifying new data sources for research and insights; improving workflows and working on ways to increase automation; providing input on predictive modeling; and revising underwriting rules and procedures.

The Team:

You'll join a collaborative and forward-thinking team of underwriters from various backgrounds and product expertise, who are motivated to shape the underwriting landscape at MassMutual. As a team, we demonstrate accountability, agility, a dedication to being inclusive, a strong business acumen, and show courage and professionalism when advocating for a particular project or presenting a healthy challenge to the status quo. Outside of the Underwriting Governance team, you can expect to work with colleagues from Data Science, Actuarial, Product, Competitive Intelligence, and IT.

The Impact:

  • Partner with leadership across the enterprise to champion changes that improve processes, while maintaining mortality expectations

  • Shape data sources for data driven underwriting practices

  • Provide recommendations around new technologies and methodologies for risk selection

  • Analyze, create, and develop rules for our algorithmic and accelerated underwriting (fluidless) processes

  • Develop new and competitive underwriting guidelines with research, documentation, marketing, and presentations

Minimum Qualifications:

  • HS diploma or GED

  • 8+ years of relevant work experience in Life Insurance Underwriting

  • Minimum $5+ million life approval limit without second signature

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree

  • Industry designations/education (FALU, FLMI, CLU) preferred

  • 10+ years Mastery level knowledge of individual life insurance practices, underwriting standards and operations

  • Confident communicator with strong written and verbal communication skills

  • Be able to think strategically and influence others.

  • Ability to partner with key constituents to support strategic and tactical development.

  • A demonstrated track record of consistently meeting and/or exceeding performance expectations.

  • Entrepreneur mindset – you drive your business forward with latitude for independent decision making.

  • Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite and data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau).

What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team

  • Regular meetings with the Underwriting Governance team

  • Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager

  • Access to mentorship opportunities

  • Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQ, veteran and disability-focused Business Resource Groups

  • Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms

  • Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical business with industry leading pay and benefits

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MassMutual is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply. Note: Veterans are welcome to apply, regardless of their discharge status.
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