# Senior Manager, Underwriting

**Company**: CVS Health
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $67,900.00 - $182,549.00
**Category**: Insurance
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We're building a world of health around every individual , shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience.

As a Senior Manager, Underwriting, you will lead a team responsible for Medicare underwriting activities across the Public and Labor, National Accounts, and Middle Market segments.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Lead, coach, and develop a team of underwriting professionals to achieve business, operational, and financial objectives.

- Manage workload distribution, production priorities, and team performance to ensure timely and accurate delivery of underwriting results.

- Identify staffing, training, and development opportunities to build a high-performing underwriting organization.

- Drive continuous process improvement initiatives focused on productivity, rating accuracy, operational efficiency, and customer experience.

- Foster a culture of exceptional customer service and mentor team members in developing strong consultative partnership skills.

- Apply and communicate underwriting policies, product knowledge, business strategies, and organizational initiatives to support informed decision-making.

- Approve underwriting exceptions and financial variances within delegated authority limits.

- Partner with Sales and Account Management teams to support customer and broker meetings when needed.

- Collaborate across CVS Health and Aetna business segments to achieve enterprise and market-specific goals.

- Leverage market and competitive intelligence to evaluate risk, develop pricing strategies, and maximize profitability.

- Communicate and negotiate rate development methodologies and underwriting decisions with internal and external stakeholders.

- Influence case strategy and business outcomes while ensuring service level expectations and deliverables are met.

- Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships that drive growth, operational excellence, and customer satisfaction.

- Provide leadership, guidance, and mentorship to both direct and indirect team members to maximize engagement and performance.

**Required Qualifications**

- 5+ years of medical underwriting experience, including experience within Medicare or group health insurance products.

- Demonstrated experience leading, coaching, mentoring, or developing underwriting professionals.

- Strong knowledge of underwriting principles, risk assessment, pricing methodologies, and funding arrangements.

- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other analytical tools.

- Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.

- Proven ability to manage competing priorities and drive results in a fast-paced environment.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience supporting Public and Labor, National Accounts, and/or Middle Market business segments.

- Knowledge of Aetna underwriting systems, products, rating methodologies, and underwriting processes.

- Experience leading operational improvement initiatives and driving measurable business outcomes.

- Ability to influence cross-functional partners and contribute to strategic business initiatives.

**Education**

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.

**Pay Range**

$67,900.00 - $182,549.00

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls.

**Benefits**

This full-time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families.

## Skills

### Required
- underwriting
- risk assessment
- pricing methodologies
- Microsoft Excel
- communication
- negotiation
- relationship-building

### Nice to have
- Public and Labor
- National Accounts
- Middle Market
- Aetna underwriting systems
- operational improvement initiatives

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