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JOB DESCRIPTION:

Location: hybrid
The Director, Underwriting Risk Management for Sun Life Canada will be recognized in the Canadian insurance underwriting community as a high performing underwriting leader who thrives on the challenge of applying innovative problem solving skills to improve the client onboarding experience. Through active, hands on leadership this leader will foster a forward thinking, collaborative, results-oriented environment for professional underwriters across Sun Life’s Canadian business units.

• Support the AVP, Underwriting Risk Management
• Promote excellence and consistency in underwriting risk assessment across SLF Canada
• Develop and deliver life, critical illness and disability underwriting training schools for SLF Canada Underwriting Teams
• Develops and conducts underwriting reviews/audits for Individual, Group Medical Underwriting (GMU) and Client Solutions (CS) underwriting teams. Recommends periodic changes to the review programs and ensures action plans are completed
• Continuously contributes to development of the organization’s Underwriting philosophies by monitoring emerging trends and best practices. Recommends and implements changes to underwriting philosophies, methodologies, practices, processes and technologies
• Provides deep technical leadership and underwriting risk perspective on product development, medical, financial, and non-medical underwriting, application revisions and new business processes
• Champions and advocates for a positive and consistent underwriting client experience for all clients of SLF Canada
• Participates in, coordinating reinsurance audits and ongoing communications regarding changes to underwriting policies
• Leads the team responsible for rescissions and contestable claim reviews
• Keeps abreast of medical underwriting developments, emerging trends and industry practices.
• Acts as a senior underwriting resource for complex underwriting cases, providing deep technical expertise, consulting with Legal, Medical and Chief Underwriter as necessary to resolve escalations
• Ability to engage and influence internal stakeholders and business leaders on matters pertaining to underwriting risk management, philosophies, methodologies, practices, processes, technologies and strategy