Sr Underwriting Officer
Boston, MA, USA
USD 98k-298k / year
Posted on Jul 12, 2026
Sr Underwriting Officer
Job Locations US-MA-Boston | US-IL-Chicago | US-NC-Charlotte | US-NY-New York | US-PA-Plymouth Meeting
- ID
- 2026-76465
- Position Type
- Full-Time
- Job Grade
- 0D
- Department
- 043D-12315 NAS Healthcare Admin
- Market
- Global Risk Solutions
- Minimum Salary
- USD $98,000.00/Yr.
- Maximum Salary
- USD $298,000.00/Yr.
- Travel
- 25%
- Recruiter
- Anthony MacNeil
- Referral Bonus Eligible?
- No
Description
This is for a senior underwriting officer position within NAS Specialty Life Sciences/Healthcare. Acts as a technical director and is the first point of contact for the frontline underwriting teams for all questions, key decisions, or referrals. Internally, the position would, in conjunction with the healthcare leadership team, develop, implement, and maintain Liberty Life Science’s go to market strategy. The position also acts as the face of Liberty Life Sciences as respects broker engagement, client meetings, and industry events.
Responsibilities
- Manages authority and referrals at the profit center level, where delegated by the relevant CUO, with authority to resolve issues locally where appropriate.
- Monitors frameworks for underwriting decisions (e.g., referrals, technical reviews) and recommends improvements, as needed.
- Collates product information to inform planning and tracks progress against the defined plan and strategy for respective line of business/Industry.
- Evaluates line of business/Industry/UW portfolio performance regularly at either the NA or profit center level, working with Underwriting Leaders to identify drivers of performance, risks, and opportunities.
- Drives line of business/UW technical excellence across the GRS NA sub-segments or profit center, working with Underwriting Leaders to identify and resolve issues.
- Works with Underwriting Leaders to identify product and services enhancements, underwriter capability development opportunities (e.g., skills, tools), and elevates to aligned CUO (Product or GRS NA sub-segment).
- Supports the aligned CUO and business leaders with the product and underwriting components of strategy and planning processes at either the GRS NA segment or product level.
- Models effective collaboration across teams, stakeholders and partners (e.g., UW Support, Claims, Actuarial, NA Product Teams).
- Produces thought leadership materials for distribution/publication both inside and outside Liberty.
Qualifications
- Strong technical underwriting expertise and experience in relevant markets, including but not limited to Life Sciences, Clinical Trials, CRO, Nutraceutical and other Healthcare/Pharmaceutical adjacent industries.
- Ability to effectively partner with multiple stakeholders and build relationships
- Experience with portfolio management
- Expert-level knowledge of all aspects of coverage forms, exclusions, and exposure. Pricing, structure, rating, rating plans, loss forecasting, credit risk, market knowledge, preferred.
- Advanced knowledge of and experience operating within several different industry segments experience with and knowledge of Risk Management/Heathcare programs key; insurance operations; claims, finance and actuarial concepts; regulatory environment; loss control/risk engineering; reinsurance; account management; product development; and industry trends.
- Must be a skilled collaborator who is willing to assess all sides of an issue, bring in others with expertise, and independently execute and advance the collaboration model.
- Other professional skills required include superior communication skills (written, verbal, presentation, listening); approachability; tact; coaching/development; analyzing and problem solving; relationship and service driven; clear solutions orientation and commitment to achieving segment operational and financial objectives; negotiation skills; and demonstrated ability to consistently and positively influence others both internally and externally (brokers/customers) as required.
- Bachelor`s degree, 10 or more years of relevant experience that includes underwriting, claims, reinsurance, coaching/developing others, working with brokers/agents and currency with market trends and developments
- Travel required. 25% per month.
Travel
25%
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