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New Business Underwriting Specialist

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Underwriting experience
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Ability to work within delegated authority

Responsibilities

  • Underwrites and analyzes new and existing life business
  • Provides technical underwriting support and guidance
  • Maintains internal and external distributor relationships
  • Contributes to the development of technical underwriting standards

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Customer Service
  • Decision Making
  • Relationship Management
  • Training And Development

About the company

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Zurich Insurance

  • Insurance
  • XLarge
  • 10,001+
Zurich is a leading multi-line insurer that serves its customers in global and local markets. With about 60,000 employees, it provides a wide range of property and casualty, and life insurance products and services in more than 210 countries and territories. Zurich’s customers include individuals, small businesses, and mid-sized and large companies, as well as multinational corporations. The Group is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, where it was founded in 1872. ONE TEAM, ONE PURPOSE We are Zurich, one global company, with one mission, one ambition, one set of shared values and a clear commitment to our stakeholders: our customers, our people, our shareholders, and the communities in which we live and work. To find out more, follow us on Twitter: @Zurich, like us on Facebook: Zurich, subscribe on YouTube: Zurich Insurance Group, follow us on Instagram: zurichinsurance or visit our website: www.zurich.com You can find Zurich's community guidelines on https://www.zurich.com/services/social-media

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Job Summary

With direction, Underwrites and analyses new and existing life business within delegated authority levels to achieve business goals and maximize customer experience

Job Accountabilities - Key Accountabilities

  • Completes assignments of moderate to high complexity while working within delegated authority.
  • Provides technical underwriting support and guidance to customers and distributors, consistently providing excellent customer service.
  • Maintains internal and external distributor relationships by consistently requesting the correct evidence, consistently making the correct decision and always explaining rating decisions.
  • Completes a range of queries and referrals within agreed authority limits, measuring the exposure & analysing the risk of each case to maintain underwriting standards.
  • Proactively contributes to the development and improvement of technical underwriting standards, controls, practices and procedures to better meet business goals.
  • Proactively contributes ideas and work for the development of new or enhanced propositions / procedures / philosophy ensuring we charge the right premium for the associated risk.
  • Identifies training opportunities for self and others and assists with training as directed.

Why Zurich

At Zurich, we like to think outside the box and challenge the status quo. We take an optimistic approach by focusing on the positives and constantly asking What can go right? 

We are an equal opportunity employer who knows that each employee is unique - that’s what makes our team so great! 
Join us as we constantly explore new ways to protect our customers and the planet.
 

  • Location(s):  MY - Kuala Lumpur 
  • Remote working:
  • Schedule: Full Time
  • Recruiter name: Sheela Ramachandran
  • Closing date:
 

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