[Hiring] Underwriting Consultant @Pacific Life

Role Description

We’re actively seeking a talented Life Insurance Underwriter to join our Consumer Markets Division. This role supports 100% remote work.

As an Underwriter, you’ll play a key role in Pacific Life’s growth and long-term success by:

• Evaluating insurance applicants and correlating all aspects of risk to determine whether to accept, modify, or decline applications.
• Focusing on mortality by evaluating the risk of death, which includes history, degree of medical maintenance, treatment, and flags of potential future risk.
• Being a crucial part of the placement of Life Insurance coverage and impacting our position in the marketplace and relationship with distribution partners.

Now is a great time to join our Underwriting team as we update our tools and achieve accelerated underwriting. Our underwriters are empowered to grow their careers through learning and development opportunities.

How you will make an impact:

• Starting with review of upfront underwriting data and tools.
• Handling additional underwriting requirements by determining value, ordering, and reviewing to perform risk selection.
• Finalizing cases.
• Data entering medical history and using system workbenches to process and decision cases.
• Demonstrating dependability, organization, and sound judgment by adhering to schedules and meeting all productivity, quality, and performance standards.

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years of Life Insurance Underwriting experience with proven proficiency in underwriting processes and philosophies.
• Ability to handle advanced decision level authorities without a co-signature (1 Million or higher).
• Effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to build relationships both internally and externally.
• Critical thinking skills and attention to detail with the ability to quickly identify information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Ability to interpret meaning of information for others; translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
• Ability to develop specific goals, plan, and prioritize work.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree.
• BGA and Trial Experience Preferred.
• Completion of LOMA 280/281 and 290/291; actively working toward AALU, FLMI, and FALU.

Benefits

• Prioritization of your health and well-being including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Wellbeing Reimbursement Account that can be used on yourself or your eligible dependents.
• Generous paid time off options including: Paid Time Off, Holiday Schedules, and Financial Planning Time Off.
• Paid Parental Leave as well as an Adoption Assistance Program.
• Competitive 401k savings plan with company match and an additional contribution regardless of participation.

Company Description

Pacific Life is committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion that embraces the authenticity of all employees, partners, and communities. We support all employees to thrive and achieve their fullest potential.