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Work Arrangement: Work from Home
Relocation assistance: : is not available for this opportunity.
Pay Range: $140,000 - $300,200
Bonus Potential: 25%
Requisition #: 69093
Role at a Glance:
As the VP of MoneyGuard, Underwriting & New Business, you will develop strategies and provide leadership for Long-Term Care (LTC) Underwriting, Risk Management, and New Business Processing for Lincoln's MoneyGuard insurance products. You will provide highly specialized expertise and thought leadership on long-term business imperatives and challenges, with primary focus on developing relationships to maximize Lincoln's MoneyGuard business results.
Location: This position can be a Full Time Remote opportunity or if the selected candidate is located in a Key city, going into an office, if preferred, could be an option.
What you'll be doing:
- Provides strategic leadership and direction for MoneyGuard (LTC) Underwriting & New Business Organization; leads the development of strategies to maximize persistency, profitability, growth, and customer satisfaction.
- Influences, oversees, and leads the development of an overall strategic business plan to set consistent direction for Lincoln's MoneyGuard business to maximize business results.
- Effectively integrates broader business unit strategic initiatives into the plans & objectives of the Underwriting & New Business Organization.
- Owns, manages, and mitigates LTC underwriting risks by understanding mortality and morbidity trends and by ensuring adherence to established risk management philosophies set forth by the Chief Underwriter & Chief Medical Director.
- Partners with senior business leaders across multiple functional areas to manage and mitigate operational risks within the MoneyGuard business.
- Partners with senior & executive management across the business to drive the development and adoption of key decisions and risk management techniques.
- Establishes strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to successfully balance underwriting integrity and business growth.
- Leads all MoneyGuard New Business processing and operations centers in a high volume, time sensitive, and highly regulated environment.
- Collaborates with operational leadership across the enterprise to identify and implement services to provide a consistent and excellent customer experience.
- Ensures that all output from customer-oriented strategic initiatives are linked to the delivery of the overall strategic mission to maximize our service delivery strength.
- Monitors developments in underwriting industries and represents the company on industry and professional committees.
- Oversees the establishment and implementation of underwriting policies and procedures.
- Ensures underwriting practices comply with all company, financial, and industry laws, rules, and regulations.
Certifications
FINRA 24 -90 Days
What we are looking for:
- 4 Year Bachelor's degree or 4+ years of equivalent work experience
- Industry Designations Preferred: FLMI, CLU, FALU, CLTC (not required)
Experience
- 12+ Years of Experience in Underwriting, New Business, and/or Life/Long-Term Care Insurance Products, Claims, Operations, Sales, Marketing or Distribution that directly aligns with the specific responsibilities of this role
- 5+ Years of Experience in Management, Strategy, and Influencing Senior Management and Critical Stakeholders
- Ability to Think Critically: Creating, Cultivating, Selling, and Implementing Strategy with a lens of the Insurance Industry
- Demonstrated strong Operational Management Skills: maintaining operations at maximum efficiency while delighting the customer, coach and lead diverse teams, handle a high level of change management as processes become more automated/digitized.
- Demonstrated strong Risk Management Skills: keen eye for balancing risk, efficiency, and customer experience.
- Demonstrated strong Relationship Management Skills: partner effectively with internal and external key stakeholders, effectively move the business forward.
Travel: up to 50%
Opportunities to Connect with our Lead Recruiter:
LinkedIn profile (https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathylwilson/detail/contact-info/#:~:text=linkedin.com/in/cathylwilson)
What's it like to work here?
At Lincoln Financial Group, we love what we do. We make meaningful contributions each and every day to empower our customers to take charge of their lives. Working alongside dedicated and talented colleagues, we build fulfilling careers and stronger communities through a company that values our unique perspectives, insights and contributions and invests in programs that empower each of us to take charge of our own future.
What's in it for YOU:
A clearly defined career framework to help you successfully manage your career
Leadership development and virtual training opportunities
PTO/parental leave
Competitive 401K and employee benefits (https://hrdirectdocs.lfg.com/misc/HR/Recruiting/BenefitsResourcesGuide.pdf)
Free financial counseling, health coaching and employee assistance program
Tuition assistance program
A leadership team that prioritizes your health and well-being; offering a remote work environment and flexible work hybrid situations
Effective productivity/technology tools and training
Work Arrangement
Work from Home : Employees will work from home and are not required to work in a Lincoln office on a regular basis.
Lincoln will evaluate the following when setting the successful candidate's wage rate:
- Prior work or industry experience.
- Education level to the extent education is relevant to the position.
- Unique skills
About The Company
Lincoln Financial Group, a Fortune 200 company with over 10,000 employees, provides advice and solutions that help empower Americans to take charge of their financial lives with confidence. Our core business areas - Life Insurance, Annuities, Retirement Plan Services and Group Protection - focus on supporting, preserving and enhancing over 17 million customer's lifestyles and retirement outcomes.
Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Lincoln Financial Group is the marketing name for Lincoln National Corporation (NYSE: LNC) and its affiliates. The company had $324 billion in end-of-period account values as of June 30, 2021.
Ranked one of the Best Large Employers in America and Best Employers for Women by Forbes magazine as well as one of Newsweek's Most Responsible Companies, Lincoln Financial Group makes a serious investment in our employees' futures through a broad range of wealth accumulation and protection plans, health and wellness programs, and career development resources designed to help each individual reach their personal and professional goals.
Lincoln is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive (https://www.lfg.com/public/aboutus/companyoverview/diversityinclusion?audience_page_id=1422918942386) environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
Lincoln Financial Group is a committed corporate citizen included on major sustainability indices including the Dow Jones Sustainability Index North America and FTSE4Good. Dedicated to diversity and inclusion, we earned perfect 100 percent scores on the Corporate Equality Index and the Disability Equality Index. Follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/lincolnfinancialgroup) , Twitter (https://mobile.twitter.com/lincolnfingroup) , LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/4307?trkInfo=tas%3Alincoln+financial%2Cidx%3A3-1-3&trk=tyah) , and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/lincolnfingroup/) . Sign up for email alerts at http://newsroom.lfg.com
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If you are interested in a career at Lincoln, we encourage you to review our current openings and apply on our website. Lincoln values the privacy and security of every applicant and urges all applicants to diligently protect their sensitive personal information from scams targeting job seekers. These scams can take many forms including fake employment applications, bogus interviews and falsified offer letters.
Lincoln will not ask applicants to provide their social security numbers, date of birth, bank account information or other sensitive information in job applications. Additionally, our recruiters do not communicate with applicants through free e-mail accounts (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or conduct interviews utilizing video chat rooms. We will never ask applicants to provide payment during the hiring process or extend an offer without conducting a phone, live video or in-person interview. Please contact Lincoln's fraud team at fraudhotline@lfg.com if you encounter a recruiter or see a job opportunity that seems suspicious.
Additional Information
This position may be subject to Lincoln's Political Contribution Policy. An offer of employment may be contingent upon disclosing to Lincoln the details of certain political contributions. Lincoln may decline to extend an offer or terminate employment for this role if it determines political contributions made could have an adverse impact on Lincoln's current or future business interests, misrepresentations were made, or for failure to fully disclose applicable political contributions and or fundraising activities.
Any unsolicited resumes/candidate profiles submitted through our web site or to personal e-mail accounts of employees of Lincoln Financial Group are considered property of Lincoln Financial Group and are not subject to payment of agency fees.
Lincoln Financial Group (-LFG-) is an Equal Opportunity employer and, as such, is committed in policy and practice to recruit, hire, compensate, train and promote, in all job classifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, Veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants are evaluated on the basis of job qualifications. If you are a person with a disability that impedes your ability to express your interest for a position through our online application process, or require TTY/TDD assistance, contact us by calling 260-455-2558.
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Lincoln Financial Group ("LFG") is an Equal Opportunity employer and, as such, is committed in policy and practice to recruit, hire, compensate, train and promote, in all job classifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, veterans status, or genetic information. Opportunities throughout LFG are available to employees and applicants and are evaluated on the basis of job qualifications. We have a drug free work environment and we perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
