Underwriter - 27503

You will become part of a team of Medical Underwriters who work closely together with other Customer Service colleagues to make sure the needs of the business, customers and distributors are all met.

• Location: South East England
• Type: Permanent

Key duties (including, but not limited to):

• You will provide fair and balanced underwriting decisions using the appropriate amount of evidence necessary
• You will assess all applications that aren’t accepted by their online underwriting engine – initial applications, additional information, amendments – and you will assess all medical evidence upon receipt from third party sources
• You will do so in a timely manner within agreed Service Level Agreements and always with the customer and their reputation in mind
• You will also provide a telephone service for pre-sale enquiries, being the first point of contact for their advisers when they are looking to place business with them, providing accurate indications of underwriting decisions and working with Sales to ensure advisers consider them their number one provider
• You will have a proven working knowledge of Income Protection, Life, Critical Illness and disability products
• You will have general knowledge of insurance industry codes and current practices