Underwriting Manager (Life) - Insurance - up to 70k

We are seeking an experienced Life Underwriting professional to join our client's underwriting team as an Underwriting Manager. This role is suited for a hands-on underwriting leader who combines strong technical expertise with people and stakeholder management experience. The successful candidate will play a key role in managing new business underwriting, supporting distribution channels, and ensuring underwriting decisions are aligned with risk appetite, service standards, and business growth objectives

This is a highly visible role requiring close collaboration with agency distribution, reinsurance partners, and internal stakeholders, while remaining actively involved in complex case assessment.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess and approve life insurance new business cases across various product lines, with a strong focus on high-volume underwriting environments
• Handle complex, large sum assured and referral cases, exercising sound judgment within delegated authorities
• Provide underwriting guidance, technical support, and case direction to junior underwriters or assigned team members
• Support agency distribution channels by delivering timely, practical underwriting decisions and case consultations
• Act as a key underwriting contact point for agents, business development teams, reinsures, and internal partners
• Ensure underwriting decisions comply with internal guidelines, regulatory requirements, and reinsurance standards
• Participate in underwriting rule development, workflow enhancement, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Contribute to underwriting training, knowledge sharing, and quality assurance processes
• Monitor underwriting trends, risk experience, and emerging medical or financial risks to support business strategy

Requirements

• Solid 7 years of experience in Life Insurance underwriting, with strong exposure to New Business underwriting in high-volume settings.
• Prior experience in a managerial, supervisory, or lead underwriting role, or demonstrable capability to guide and support other underwriters
• Strong technical underwriting knowledge across medical, financial, and non-medical risk assessment
• Proven ability to manage and communicate underwriting decisions with agency distribution channels
• Experience dealing directly with agents, including case discussions and deadline-driven underwriting support
• Confident decision-maker with strong analytical, risk assessment, and problem-solving skills
• Able to balance underwriting integrity with commercial awareness and service expectations
• Excellent communication skills in English; Cantonese and/or Mandarin are highly preferred

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