Senior Bilingual Life Underwriting Specialist (Remote)

About the role

Munich Re Canada is looking for a senior, bilingual underwriting consultant to join its remote team. The specialist will combine production underwriting for facultative Life & Health business with client partnership, mentorship, and participation in modernization initiatives that drive consistent, efficient, and forward‑looking underwriting outcomes.

Key responsibilities

• Assess and underwrite complex Life & Health facultative risks, applying medical, financial, occupational and avocational judgment within authority limits.
• Provide responsive, consultative support to clients, delivering clear underwriting rationale, practical solutions and timely file management.
• Contribute to modernization projects by leveraging data, automation, rules engines, digital evidence and workflow tools to improve quality and efficiency.
• Mentor and coach junior underwriters through case consultation, co‑signing, technical guidance and knowledge sharing.
• Partner with cross‑functional teams—including medical, claims, actuarial, pricing, compliance and technology—as an underwriting subject‑matter expert.
• Monitor emerging risk trends, regulatory changes and market developments to support forward‑looking risk selection.
• Identify opportunities to enhance underwriting guidelines, processes, client experience, controls and training materials.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; industry designations such as FALU or FLMI are a plus.
• Minimum 5 years of Life & Health underwriting experience, including complex and facultative cases; Critical Illness or Disability underwriting experience is an asset.
• Fluent in both French and English (oral and written).
• Advanced knowledge of medical, financial, occupational and avocational risk assessment, insurance principles, contract provisions and regulatory considerations.
• Strong digital fluency and comfort using underwriting platforms, data, automation, rules engines and workflow tools.
• Excellent analytical and critical‑thinking abilities with the capacity to synthesize complex information.

Required skills

• Underwriting platforms
• Data analysis
• Automation tools
• Rules engines
• Workflow tools