AVP leading Sun Life’s insurance distribution strategy, advisor relationships and regional sales execution. Building leadership capability and sustainable life and health insurance growth.
About the role
- Director managing enterprise underwriting and claims risk at Sun Life, a life insurer helping Clients achieve financial security. Redesigning mortality and morbidity risk programs globally.
Responsibilities
- Redesign existing programs to manage mortality and morbidity risk within the enterprise underwriting risk management framework
- Develop performance management tools and processes to ensure compliance with the Enterprise Underwriting Operating Guideline
- Assess mortality and morbidity experience and report findings, risk implications, and corrective-action recommendations to the Corporate Chief Underwriter
- Serve as an expert resource for complex medically underwritten cases and financial underwriting risks
- Make final decisions on complex underwriting risks within stated approval authority
- Review and challenge Business Unit policies and practices as Second Line of Defense
- Report non-compliances with the UWEOG to the Director, Risk Controls and Compliance
- Build partnerships with Global Underwriting, product and pricing, Insurance Risk, and reinsurance teams
- Research medical and non-medical risk factors and present findings to underwriting leadership
- Assist the VP, Chief Underwriter in changing methodologies and practices affecting mortality and morbidity experience
Requirements
- Minimum 10 years experience as an individual Life Underwriter, underwriting multiple lines of business or products for multiple distribution channels
- Previous life approval authority of $10,000,000
- Previous critical illness approval authority of $1,000,000
- Knowledge and practical application of AI, risk propensity models, automated underwriting workflows, and point-of-sale tools
- Understanding of mortality and morbidity impacts and non-medical issues such as fraud
- Knowledge of product development practices, risk assessment, UWEOG, and corporate risk appetite
- Ability to take projects from ideation to implementation
- Underwriting, statistical analysis, mathematical, and actuarial knowledge
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently and make complex decisions in a risk setting
- Bilingual French and English, oral and written, required for Quebec postings
Benefits
- A collaborative and interactive team environment
- Opportunities for career development, continuous learning, skill building, and coaching
- Hybrid work flexibility from home and the office based on business and Client needs
- Sabbatical Program offering up to 6 weeks off every five years
- Participation in various incentive plans, subject to individual and company performance
- Accommodation support during the application process
- 2026 Best Workplaces in Canada recognition
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