The Life and Critical Illness Underwriting Co-Signer is a critical role within Manulife's underwriting organization, responsible for delivering high-quality, competitive underwriting decisions while actively developing the next generation of underwriting talent.

This role supports Manulife's underwriting philosophy by partnering with underwriters on complex and high-value files, strengthening decision quality, and ensuring sound risk management practices are consistently applied.

In addition to co-signing decisions, the Underwriting Co-Signer plays an significant role in training, coaching, and shaping future-ready underwriting capabilities.

The individual will help underwriters build confidence, critical thinking, judgment, and business awareness in an environment where digital tools, AI-enabled insights, and evolving customer expectations are changing how underwriting work is performed.

Through active mentorship, file review, feedback, and collaboration, this role helps create a stronger underwriting pipeline and supports the future of underwriting at Manulife.
**Key Responsibilities**
**Underwriting Decisions:**
Evaluate and make underwriting decisions on life and critical illness insurance applications with approval limits up to $10 million, ensuring decisions align with Manulife's underwriting philosophy, risk appetite, and regulatory expectations.
**Co-Signing and File Review:**
Partner with assigned underwriters to review complex, high-value, or development-focused files, assessing the underwriting approach, evidence ordered, documentation, decision rationale, and customer/advisor impact.
**Training and Development:**
Actively train, coach, and mentor underwriters to build technical expertise, critical thinking, decision confidence, and readiness for increased approval limits and broader underwriting responsibilities.
**Future of Underwriting Capability Building:**
Support the development of future-ready underwriting skills, including effective use of digital tools, AI-enabled decision support, data-driven insights, and continuous improvement practices.
**Decision Quality and Consistency:**
Promote consistent application of underwriting guidelines, Manulife's philosophy, financial and medical underwriting principles, and appropriate risk management practices.
**Business and Customer Impact:**
Help underwriters understand the broader business impact of their decisions, including requirement ordering, amendments, advisor communication, cycle time, customer experience, persistency, and competitive positioning.
**Volume and Service Expectations:**
Manage co-signing and underwriting work efficiently, supporting service standards and timely decision-making while balancing quality, development, and business priorities.
**Coaching Conversations and Feedback:**
Provide timely, constructive feedback through case discussions, coaching sessions, office hours, and file reviews to accelerate underwriter development and reinforce learning.
**Collaboration:**
Work collaboratively with underwriting leaders, Risk Management, Research, medical directors, and new business to support consistent decisions and a seamless customer and advisor experience.
**Continuous Improvement:**
Identify opportunities to improve underwriting processes, documentation, training approaches, requirement ordering, and use of tools to strengthen underwriting outcomes and future capabilities.
**Qualifications**
**Experience:**
A minimum of 5 years of experience in life and critical illness underwriting, with a proven track record of handling complex and high-value cases.
**Technical Expertise:**
Strong knowledge of life and critical illness underwriting, including medical, financial, non-medical,



product, and persistency considerations.
**Education:**
Bachelor's degree in finance, business, health sciences, or a related field is preferred.

Professional underwriting designations or progress toward designations such as FALU, FLMI, ACS, or equivalent are highly desirable.
**Coaching and Development** : Demonstrated ability to mentor, coach, and develop underwriters through practical case review, feedback, structured learning, and knowledge sharing.
**Critical Thinking:**
Strong analytical, judgment, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess risk, challenge assumptions, and apply guidelines with sound business context.
**Communication:**
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex decisions clearly and constructively to underwriters, leaders, advisors, and internal partners.
**Digital Mindset:**
Comfort with underwriting technology, digital tools, data insights, and AI-enabled decision support, with a willingness to help others adopt new ways of working.
**Leadership Behaviours:**
Ability to model collaboration, curiosity, accountability, adaptability, and a continuous improvement mindset in a fast-paced underwriting environment.
**Performance Metrics**
**Decision Accuracy and Risk Management:**
Maintain strong underwriting decision quality, with decisions aligned to Manulife's philosophy, guidelines, audit expectations, and risk management standards.
**Co-Signing Quality and Consistency:**
Demonstrate consistent, timely, and development-focused co-signing that improves file quality, decision rationale, documentation, and underwriter independence.
**Underwriter Development Impact:**
Support measurable improvement in underwriter confidence, technical capability, approval-limit readiness, decision consistency, and ability to work more independently.
**Service and Cycle Time:**
Contribute to timely file review and decision-making, supporting service standards while maintaining quality and development expectations.
**Training and Knowledge Sharing:**
Actively participate in case clinics, coaching sessions, office hours, and training activities that strengthen team capability and support the future of underwriting.
**Future-Ready Capability Adoption:**
Encourage effective use of digital tools, AI-enabled insights, data, and process improvements to help underwriters build the skills required for a changing underwriting environment.
**Business Impact:**
Support improved customer and advisor experience through better requirement ordering, clearer communication, consistent decisions, and stronger alignment between risk management and business outcomes.
**When you join our team:**
We'll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

We'll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are
more than just words.

As part of our global team, we'll support you in shaping the future you want to see
The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.
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**Referenced Salary Location**
Canadá, Remoto a tiempo completo
**Modalidades de Trabajo**
Remoto
**Salary range is expected to be between**
$79,700.00 CAD - $129,700.00 CAD
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📌 Life and Critical Illness Underwriting Co-Signer (Ontario)
🏢 Manulife
📍 Ontario