Vice President of Underwriting
Core
Senior leadership role shaping underwriting strategy, risk management, and profitability for a growing health insurance organization.
Role type
Senior leadership VP of Underwriting (Health Insurance)
Builds
Fully insured and self-funded health plans, stop-loss, ancillary, and specialty products
Domain
Health Insurance / Risk Management
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery | infrastructure
Required skills
Enterprise underwriting strategy, risk tolerance frameworks, pricing methodologies, P&L management, regulatory compliance, team scaling, workflow optimization, data analytics
Preferred skills
None stated
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Develop and execute enterprise underwriting strategy; Establish underwriting guidelines and governance standards; Oversee underwriting profitability and loss ratio performance; Maintain pricing integrity for various health plan products; Monitor key underwriting metrics; Partner with Actuarial and Finance teams on rate setting and forecasting; Lead and scale high-performing underwriting teams; Optimize underwriting workflows and automation tools; Ensure compliance with federal and state healthcare regulations; Partner with Legal, Compliance, Sales, Claims, and executive stakeholders.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with broad influence