Senior Medical Underwriter (Part-time, Job-share, Full-time)
Location: Flexible, ideally within commutable distance of Swindon
Closing Date: 12th January 2025
The opportunity:
Are you an experienced Medical Underwriter looking for a new challenge? Zurich Corporate Risk, one of the fastest growing group risk providers in the market, is now looking for an experienced Medical Underwriter.
As an experienced Medical Underwriter, you will be responsible for making sound and skilful group life and group income protection underwriting decisions for members of new and existing Corporate schemes.
Many of our employees work flexibly in a variety of different ways, including part-time, flexible hours, job share, an element of working from home or compressed hours. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you may need.
What will you be doing?
* Making medical underwriting decisions for group life and group income protection within agreed authority limits and in line with the Zurich underwriting philosophy.
* Providing technical medical underwriting support and guidance to customers and distributors, consistently providing excellent customer service.
* Keeping up to date with medical underwriting philosophy considering experience and market conditions.
* Using best practice to boost effectiveness and efficiency of our processes.
* Delivering against key business, team and individual KPIs.
* Liaising with Company Medical Officers and reassurance companies as needed.
* Maintaining external distributor relationships by consistently requesting the correct evidence and making the correct decisions.
* Completing a range of queries and referrals within agreed authority limits, measuring the exposure and analysing the risk of each case to maintain underwriting standards.
* Identifying opportunities for improvement by monitoring underwriting business processes.
* Ensuring robust governance is maintained across the team, remaining compliant at all times.
* Sharing best practices with other team members.
* Providing a standout service experience for customers and stakeholders.
* Contributing to a positive and supportive team culture.
* Taking responsibility for delivering quality and timely output to our customers through ownership of own workload and supporting colleagues.
What are we looking for?
* Medical underwriting experience in either the corporate or protection environment.
* CII Diploma in Underwriting preferred but not essential.
* Awareness of the corporate risk market in the UK.
* Strong knowledge of underwriting philosophy, techniques, regulations, and guidelines.
* Ability to effectively assess risk, using excellent judgement and decision-making skills.
* Excellent attention to detail, with strong focus on quality.
* Excellent interpersonal skills and able to contribute to a positive and supportive team culture.
* Able to build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders at all levels.
* Passionate about customers and driving through Continuous Improvement.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Challenge processes, priorities, strategies, use of resources and business decisions to help deliver best results.
Who we are:
At Zurich, we aspire to be one of the most responsible and impactful businesses in the world and the best global insurer. Together we’re creating a brighter future for our customers, our people, and our planet.
Our Culture:
At Zurich, our sense of community is strong and we’re particularly passionate about diversity and inclusion. We want our employees to reflect the diversity of our customers, and so are committed to treating all of our applicants fairly and with respect.
We’ve an environment that places real importance on our people’s wellbeing from a physical, mental, social, and financial perspective.
The financials:
* 12% defined non-contributory pension scheme.
* Annual company bonus.
* Income Protection.
* Life cover - four times your salary.
Time away:
* 25 days holiday a year plus bank holidays.
* Request to swap UK bank holidays for days off that have cultural or religious significance.
* The option to buy up to an additional 20 days or sell some of your holiday.
* Three days paid volunteering.
* Up to 16 weeks' full pay for maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
Your health is important to us:
* Access to Private medical insurance.
* Virtual GP appointments.
* Discounted gym membership.
* Free flu jab.
* Access to a wealth of support from our wellbeing partners.
We're making a difference:
* Creating a brighter, more sustainable future underpins all that we do here in Zurich.
* Our charitable arm, Zurich Community Trust, has awarded grants and volunteered time to deserving causes in the UK valued at over £90 million.
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