Kansas City Life Insurance Company · 3 weeks ago
Underwriting Consultant
Kansas City, MO
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expKansas City Life Insurance Company is a life insurance provider that emphasizes equal employment opportunities. They are seeking an Underwriting Consultant to contribute to corporate profitability through informed risk stratification and to build relationships with agents and policyholders while ensuring accurate risk assessment.
Insurance
Hiring Manager
Madison Warren, SHRM-CP, MBA
Responsibilities
Contribute to overall corporate profitability through the use of informed, balanced, economical risk stratification and case disposition
Contribute to the sale and conservation of company products through accurate risk assessment and utilization of objective and competitive risk selection modalities
Contribute to corporate growth through energetic relationship building with our contracted or prospective general agents, regional sales representatives and policyholders by outlining departmental procedures and providing prompt, accurate and efficient service
Work with Chief Underwriter, home office personnel, and reinsurance partners in product pricing activities involving underwriting guidelines, procedures, facultative case submissions and other duties as assigned
Develop and nurture strong working relationships with new business staff to continually review application life cycle time and make recommendations for improvement
Work with the AVP/Chief Underwriter, New Business and Underwriting departments to identify, plan and develop processes/procedures to support departmental and corporate strategies
Qualification
Required
College degree or equivalent work experience
At least 5 years of experience in a production underwriting environment demonstrating knowledge, capability and responsibilities commensurate with underwriter level
Underwriting exposure to occupation, avocation, aviation and medically substandard business
Knowledge and/or experience in audit processes and project responsibilities
Experience working with New Business and other underwriting personnel while maintaining flexibility, independence and self-motivation to complete daily underwriting assignments
Demonstrated knowledge of the life insurance industry. Includes federal/state regulations, risk management, reinsurance agreements, products/riders and their effects on the insurance industry, its processes and corporate goals
Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Excel, Access and other database technologies
Preferred
Degree in health, finance or business administration preferred
FALU, FLMI and other life insurance industry designations preferred
Company
Kansas City Life Insurance Company
Security Assured.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Web Bixby
President and CEO
Jim Richardson
CIO
Recent News
2023-09-22
Business Journals
2022-04-26
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