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Working Schedule
Full-Time
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Relocation Assistance Available
No
Posted Date
17-Feb-2025
Job ID
6657

Description and Requirements

The Team You Will Join 

 

The Medical Underwriter is the professional responsible for making decisions concerning the possibility of accepting processes and determining the capital, rate and conditions under which they can be accepted. The underwriter will join a team of 8 underwriters focused on Individual Protection.

 

The Opportunity 

 

The Underwriter ensures that the insurer's mortality rate does not exceed the assumptions made by the Actuarial Department. The Underwriter contributes to the purpose of MetLife through the prevention of anti-selection, ensuring that the accepted risk is included in the Mortality Tables used to calculate the tariff, thus helping us to maintain competitiveness.

 

Success in this role requires you to be able to work under pressure, utilizing office Tools, especially Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. The Underwriter is responsible for a high level of proactivity and problem-solving and is continuously improvement-orientedYou’ll collaborate closely with Sales in an environment where every contribution is respected, and every perspective is heard.

 

How You’ll Help Us Build a Confident Future (Key Responsibilities)

 

  • Analysis and management of Underwriting applications
  • Clinical analysis and discussion with the medical team
  • Professional, Financial, sports and travel analysis 
  • Administrative services related to and/or supporting the functions, reports, request for additional information from the client. 
  • General correspondence expedient
  • Functions digital archives and sending processes to external archives


What You Need to Succeed (Required Qualifications)

  • Written and spoken English (C1 minimum) and Portuguese 
  • Underwriting experience
  • Educated to degree level or above 
  • Ability to work as a part of a team
  • Strong communication and relationship skills
  • High level of proactivity and problem solving
  • Continuous improvement oriented
  • Able to work under pressure
  • Office Tools knowledge – Excel, Word, PPT 

 

  What Can Give You an Edge (Additional Skills)

  • Previous experience in the insurance market or insurance formation. 
  • Insurance / medical qualifications

 

About MetLife

Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2024 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World’s 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world’s leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we’re inspired to transform the next century in financial services. 
At MetLife, it’s #AllTogetherPossible. Join us!