Life Underwriting Auditor
Manulife · United States · US
Quality Improvement
Remote
Dentist
Demand58
Career growth55
Healthcare fit48
Remote potential55
Salary band
USD 92k – 160k
5-year outlook
Compensation is described as competitive within the stable life-insurance sector, with progression tied to seniority and professional designations (ALU/FALU/FLMI). Growth is steady but niche rather than high-velocity.
Clinical license
Not required
Applicant reach
narrow
Seniority
senior
Employment type
full-time
Date found
2026-10-06
Intelligence details
Flexible work details
- Engagement type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full-time
- Eligible countries
- United States
- Profession fit
- Dentist
- Rate period
- Annual
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Why this is worth applying to
Worth considering only if you already have life insurance underwriting or insurance-medicine experience; clinicians without that background will likely be screened out by the 5+ year underwriting requirement. It is a strong fit for physicians/nurses who have moved into insurance medicine and want an audit/risk-control track.
Who should apply
Physicians or nurses with prior life insurance underwriting, insurance medicine, or medical-director experience; clinicians who have worked in risk selection, disability/life claims, or underwriting quality assurance and want to move into governance and audit.
CV angle
Reframe clinical experience around risk assessment and medical information interpretation: highlight any insurance medicine, medical underwriting, claims review, or guideline-adherence work. Emphasize documentation quality, pattern/root-cause identification, and cross-functional collaboration with non-clinical stakeholders. Do not claim underwriting audit experience you do not have — instead position clinical risk judgment and medical evidence appraisal as transferable to underwriting quality review.
Skills to highlight
- Medical and financial underwriting knowledge
- Risk assessment and risk selection
- Audit and quality assurance
- Root cause and trend analysis
- Data analysis (Excel, BI tools)
- Structured written reporting
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Governance and control frameworks
Role summary
A senior internal audit role at Manulife/John Hancock that reviews post-issue life underwriting decisions for medical, financial, and operational soundness, monitors underwriting quality against guidelines and mortality assumptions, and supports risk-control frameworks, corrective action plans, and innovation testing (including GenAI tools).
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