Vice President of Underwriting
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JobgetherHealth Insurance
United StatesFull-TimeVp
Salary5% annual bonus based on company profitability
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- Required Skills
- ComplianceFinancial analysisRisk ManagementData analytics
Requirements
- Deep experience with both self-funded and fully insured health plan underwriting.
- Strong understanding of stop-loss, level-funded, ancillary, and specialty insurance products.
- Demonstrated experience with underwriting P&L responsibility and financial performance management.
- Strong knowledge of applicable federal and state healthcare regulations and insurance compliance requirements.
- Proven ability to develop, lead, and scale high-performing underwriting teams.
- Strong understanding of pricing, risk selection, loss ratios, renewals, and underwriting performance metrics.
- Experience collaborating effectively with Actuarial, Finance, Sales, Claims, Legal, Compliance, and executive stakeholders.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to translate risk and market data into actionable decisions.
- Excellent communication and relationship-management skills, including the ability to engage senior leaders, brokers, and consultants.
- Strong operational mindset with experience improving processes, workflows, technology adoption, and data-driven underwriting capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute an enterprise underwriting strategy aligned with growth, profitability, and risk management objectives.
- Establish underwriting guidelines, risk tolerance frameworks, pricing methodologies, and governance standards.
- Oversee underwriting profitability and loss ratio performance across relevant lines of business.
- Maintain pricing integrity for fully insured and self-funded medical plans, stop-loss, ancillary, and specialty products.
- Monitor key underwriting metrics including hit ratios, margin performance, risk scoring accuracy, and renewal outcomes.
- Partner with Actuarial and Finance teams on rate setting, forecasting, risk pool analysis, and financial performance.
- Lead, mentor, and scale high-performing underwriting teams across new business, renewals, large group, and small group functions.
- Optimize underwriting workflows, automation tools, data analytics, and operational processes to improve accuracy and efficiency.
- Ensure underwriting activities comply with applicable federal and state requirements, including ACA, ERISA, HIPAA, and Department of Insurance requirements.
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