Penn Mutual
Penn Mutual
1,001 – 5,000 Employees
H1B Visa Sponsor
Penn Mutual is an established organization founded in 1847. Explore its company profile for current information and opportunities listed through the job aggregator.

Director of Underwriting Strategy and Governance

Lead life insurance underwriting strategy, governance, training, and modernization while evaluating complex and jumbo cases. Mentor underwriters and help implement responsible AI-enabled workflows.

Description

  • Coach underwriters to build stronger technical expertise, judgment, and consistency
  • Create, improve, and deliver underwriting education programs
  • Uphold underwriting standards, documentation requirements, and governance practices
  • Help the Associate (VP) Chief Underwriter carry out strategy, governance standards, and policy updates
  • Contribute to governance forums, quality assessments, audits, and related initiatives
  • Analyze cases and results to uncover trends and opportunities for improvement
  • Address complex underwriting and systemic issues, escalating findings and recommendations
  • Contribute to projects focused on process improvement, technology adoption, and vendor implementations
  • Help underwriters transition to new tools, automation, and improved workflows
  • Work with Medical, Actuarial, Product, Reinsurance, Distribution, Compliance, and Operations teams
  • Promote responsible AI and advanced analytics through training, documentation, and quality safeguards
  • Act as a senior underwriting specialist and escalation resource for complex risk evaluations
  • Assess referrals and issue underwriting decisions and signatures within delegated authority, including large, complex, and jumbo cases
  • Provide limited production underwriting assistance without managing daily case flow or operational queues

Requirements

  • A bachelor’s degree or comparable relevant work experience
  • At least 10 years of experience in life underwriting
  • Underwriting signing authority of $20 million, including complex case design and advanced sales experience
  • Extensive technical knowledge of life underwriting risk evaluation, complex cases, and underwriting standards
  • Proven ability to mentor, coach, and develop underwriters’ technical decision-making and consistency
  • Background supporting underwriting education, quality assessments, and governance programs
  • Knowledge of Term, Whole Life, IUL, and VUL products, including advanced underwriting considerations
  • Familiarity with underwriting tools, evidence sources, and emerging technologies such as AI-enabled capabilities
  • Ability to collaborate with senior underwriting leaders without direct responsibility for operations
  • Sound judgment with strong communication and influencing abilities
  • ACS, ALU, FLMI, FALU, or CLU designation, or progress toward one or more of these credentials, preferred
  • A master’s degree or MBA, preferred

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