Title:  Assistant Client Manager/ Deputy Client Manager- Life and Health

Your Role:

 
Job Purpose: 

• To proficiently & prudently appraise risk for life & health insurance applications, thereby enhancing profit and overall growth of MRIB

• Ensures underwriting decisions generated are in line with Munich Re philosophy and the applicable underwriting manual where appropriate within agreed turnaround time

• Provides assistance and guidance to client companies in projects and process enhancements related to underwriting 

Key Responsibilities:

▪ Expertise to deliver high quality prudent risk assessment decisions by Underwriting for medical, financial and special risks within the scope of assigned underwriting limits as per Munich Re underwriting Philosophy.

▪ As a member of the Life & Health team based in Mumbai office of Munich Re India Branch, role will be to build and maintain client relationships as well as to provide underwriting related services to MRIB clients, in accordance with the agreed terms.

Recognize imperative risk factors and understand insurable risk and financial justification to make strong decisions; ensure appropriate documentation to support these decisions.

▪ As a team member, contribute towards Quality assignment – Peer Review and adopts a partnering approach when carrying out underwriting audits along with Process review audits of clients.

▪ Demonstrate effective time management, conflict resolution and presentation of alternative solutions

▪ Participate in activities related to internal and external training programmes and provide training to clients regarding the underwriting approach(es) and all the implications thereof as per Munich Re Standards

▪ Required to work as a member of a high-performance team and to demonstrate and develop adequate technical and interpersonal skills, so candidate can strongly contribute to achieving MRIB commercial objectives.

▪ Participates in departmental or companywide activities and projects regarding underwriting and related fields.

▪ Represent and promote Munich Re at industry meetings, business travel to client’s offices for participating on external reviews/audits or client engagements.

▪ Established demonstration of drive and initiative to improve processes, underwriting guidelines and/or client perceptions with participation on team projects as required 

Your Profile:

 
Education & Experience Essential : 

• Minimum 8 years’ in Life & Health insurance underwriting experience, preferably with reinsurance/ regional/international exposure as Senior Underwriter

• University Graduation Degree. Medical / Life Science related qualification preferred. 

• Strong Microsoft Office skills

• Strong knowledge of medical terminology, anatomy and physiology with Impaired/substandard risk experience Good to Have:

• 10+ years’ experience of direct underwriting experience 

• Doctor qualification with expertise in TMT and ECGR interpretation

• Professional Life Insurance qualifications like (ALMI, FLMI, AALU, FALU, CLU), or shows commitment to continuing professional education

• Excellent analytical, decision making and problem solving skills.

• Self-disciplined with ability to work autonomously. 

Competencies:

• Client focused (both external and internal)

• Creative, flexible, self-motivated and responsive

• Must be an “out of the box” thinker

• Works effectively both independently and in a team setting

• Highly adaptable to a rapidly changing environment 

About Munich Re:

Founded in 1880, Munich Re Group is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, primary insurance and insurance-related risk solutions. As pioneers in risk assessment, we drive the digital transformation of the global insurance landscape, expanding products and services as new forms of risk emerge. From space rocket launches to cyber- attacks, from high net worth individual life cover to pandemics, we take care of risks, so our clients can take care of their business. Across Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, we operate life and health and non-life reinsurance as well as primary insurance businesses, providing global career development opportunities and prospects to more than 1900 team members in 20 locations. We started supporting clients in the Indian market in 1951 and established our India Branch in Mumbai in 2017 to service the NonLife and Life reinsurance markets in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh