# Technical Underwriting Role

**Company**: Cigna Healthcare
**Location**: Kwun Tong
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Insurance
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced medical underwriter to join our team as a Technical Underwriting Role. You will be responsible for managing underwriting risk through accurate and modern underwriting assessment of insurance applications and claims re-underwriting. Additionally, you will coach and mentor the underwriting team to enhance their medical underwriting knowledge and risk evaluation capabilities.

**Job Responsibilities:**

- Perform accurate underwriting assessments for new business, policy changes, and claims cases, adhering to service level agreements, underwriting guidelines, and authority limits.

- Apply Cigna's underwriting philosophy in assessing individual application risks.

- Stay updated with product knowledge, market standards, and technical underwriting expertise through industry engagement, professional development, and collaboration with reinsurers.

- Ensure compliance with regulatory guidelines and internal policies.

- Foster effective communication with key stakeholders, including sales teams and customers.

- Drive improvements in underwriting efficiency and adopt modern underwriting approaches and technologies.

- Provide coaching and mentorship to junior underwriters to enhance underwriting skills and medical knowledge.

- Respond to partner and customer inquiries promptly and professionally.

- Act as a subject matter expert in ad hoc assignments related to medical underwriting.

**Job Requirements:**

- Minimum 10-15 years of experience in underwriting, with extensive exposure to Medical and Critical Illness products.

- Proven underwriting authority and track record of handling complex cases independently.

- Strong market knowledge and analytical skills to support sound underwriting and claims decisions.

- Demonstrated ability to improve underwriting processes and embrace innovation.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

## Skills

### Required
- Medical Underwriting
- Risk Evaluation
- Underwriting Assessment
- Regulatory Compliance
- Stakeholder Management

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