# Senior Manager, Underwriting

**Company**: Chubb Life Insurance Hong Kong Limited
**Location**: Hong Kong
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Insurance
**Industry**: Insurance

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## Description

The Senior Manager – Underwriting is a pivotal leadership position within the Underwriting team, responsible for driving underwriting strategy, overseeing complex and high-value life insurance risk assessments, and ensuring consistent portfolio profitability.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead, mentor, and develop the underwriting team to achieve individual and organisational performance goals.

- Oversee the underwriting of complex, large-sum, and high-value life insurance applications, ensuring sound risk selection.

- Develop, implement, and periodically review underwriting policies, guidelines, and best practices.

- Monitor portfolio performance, identify trends, and proactively manage risk exposure across the book of business.

- Review and approve underwriting decisions above delegated authority thresholds, ensuring consistency and quality.

- Collaborate cross-functionally with Actuarial, Product Development, Sales, Claims, and Compliance teams.

- Ensure full compliance with regulatory requirements, internal governance standards, and reinsurance treaty obligations.

- Drive process improvements and lead the adoption of new underwriting tools, technologies, and data analytics.

- Prepare management information reports and present portfolio insights and recommendations to senior leadership.

- Manage key external relationships with reinsurers, brokers, intermediaries, and distribution partners.

- Contribute to product development initiatives, and new business feasibility assessments.

- Handle escalated underwriting queries, complex risk assessments, and disputed decisions with sound judgment.

- Represent the underwriting function in business planning, strategy sessions, and regulatory discussions.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in business, medicine, or a related field.

- Professional underwriting qualification preferred (e.g., FLMI, ALU, DipCII, or equivalent).

- Minimum of 10-15 years of underwriting experience in life insurance.

- At least 3–5 years in a team leadership or senior managerial underwriting role.

- Strong knowledge of underwriting principles and practices.

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

- Experience with reinsurance arrangements and treaty management is a significant advantage.

- Prior involvement in product development, pricing, or portfolio strategy is desirable.

## Skills

### Required
- underwriting
- life insurance
- risk assessment
- portfolio management
- regulatory compliance

### Nice to have
- reinsurance arrangements
- treaty management
- product development
- pricing
- portfolio strategy

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